5th October - a treat

Today our family from Jaworzno visited. My uncle (my brother was one of nine, with 4 brothers and 4 sisters), aunt and their granddaughter are here. For me it's an opportunity to meet my cousin's elder daughter Ania for the first time! And she's already 15. How amazing is this, I wonder. It's my day of break from the hospital visit and while my mother and others are there I work in the kitchen and clean. So a family time, that's how our afternoon passes by.

And in the evening my mother and me go for the second night of the Silesian Guitar Autumn. Tonight it's the recital of a Spanish guitarist Ricardo Gallen.

The repertoire tonight is:

Lenox Berkeley - Sonatina
Manuel Maria Ponce - Sonata III
Leo Brouwer - Sonata
William Walton - Five Bagatelles
and a J.S.Bach's piece requested this morning by the artistic director of the festival, the Suite BWV 997 was chosen.

Superb! We enjoy the evening, and the guitarist: modest, humble and no self-expression.

I browsed through my past posting on this blog and it gave a better sense of how the things are going on: transitions, things worth remembering and following-up on, lessons to be learnt. Good to review the past weeks, but of course what is here and now counts most. A very useful exercise indeed this journalizing.

Preparing for a next week now ...