At choir Monday night we started doing "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music, a musical for the fallout shelter era. It's all about joy in the face of dread, most clearly in that song. I had a big headache.
Last night at the opera we got to the Habanera. (I still don't know the date when David Roche is doing our acting class.) I mentioned to Beatrice the six styles of love and how they correspond to the leading characters in Carmen: ludus (love as a game) is Carmen; mania (love as obsession) is Don Jose; eros (love as conventional romantic passion) is Don Escamillo; and storge (affection developing gradually out of friendship), pragma (practical considerations) and agape (self-sacrificing empathy) are all Michaela.
I recently found an interest cheque they sent me a few months ago. (I thought it was a statement.) That puts me ahead of the game financially!)
This afternoon I went to an open house at Culturelink, an institute for established Canadians to meet immigrants. (I've been considering volunteering for that.)
I just finished Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money. I wonder what I should read next?
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