Nathan celebrates a gray Christmas day with a cold dip.

Nathan hates Coltrane, too. Another silent Thanksgiving.

Missed my cousin Robert's birthday, Nov. 13, 1835, but visited his skeleton at the Smithsonian just last summer. A fascinating man.
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When you need both a harpsichord and a fortepiano, try this beast, a vis-a-vis grand, which features them conjoined in a single instrument, plus music stands for your accompanying players.

For reasons that baffle me, after the election pleasure in reading returned. I have about two dozen books that I haven’t finished since the pandemic. I took three of them off the list since the world shifted on its axis. Nathan approves.

Always glad to return home to this ferocious beast.

I saw three exhibitions in 24 hours in New York, the last of which was the Whitney Museum's Edges of Ailey. Wow. Just wow. Among the many little treasures is this Hector Hyppolite painting, a document of Ailey's interest in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.