Time

Wednesday woke slowly, since I didn't have to get up as early as usual today. A high altitude overcast creates inscrutable weather, it might rain it might burn off. The forecast calls for overcast and rain, with the latter kicking in shortly after noon. Time to enjoy a lazy start to the day is a rare treat, at least for me.

This is actually my second blog entry for today. The first one was a doozy: long, opinionated, and frustrated. I think it may have included words like frigtard. Maybe a bit worse, actually. Consequently, I'll keep it offline. While I do occasionally riff on such topics, this isn't a blog for such matters and in my professional capacity some circumspection is required.

You see, the legislature has finally announced what today's reconciled state budget is going to look like and I have strong feelings about what we're doing and not doing as a state and what they are requiring of the now drastically underfunded college system in the state. The only thing worse than unmitigated cuts to a system as poorly funded as ours currently is, is unmitigated cuts combined with ignorant legislative micromanaging. I'll leave it at that for this space.

So having perma-parked that looooong post, I fried up a couple of brown eggs and toasted a mate bagel to cover with fresh cashew butter. Ahh, that feels more like a morning off!

Now, with a couple of loaves of whole-grain mate bread (just substitute strong brewed mate for most of the water in the linked recipe) waiting through it's first rising, a cup of warm mate beside me, and some good nostalgia music in my headphones, the transition to down time is getting closer with each passing minute.

Speaking of the music, a while back I went looking for an older piece of early "Jesus rock" from my musical past. Consummate guitarist/songwriter Phil Keaggy once recorded, with A Band Called David as part of a live concert recording, an extended version of his piece Time. Regardless of your beliefs (this is song with a religious message in the lyrics), this has to be one of the best bits of guitar/band jamming recorded in the last thirty years. In fact, Phil's section of the recorded concert is full of some really amazing music. Given this is a musician frequently referenced by Guitar Player Magazine readers' polls as one of the world's top-3 "fingerstyle" as well as "fingerpicking" guitarists, that shouldn't really be surprising. For example, the instrumental section of this live 16+ minute recording of the song Rejoice is so rich and varied I could sit and listen to it over and over and over. I will, in fact, today.

Time, down-time, good stuff.

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