Wednesday, January 1st

Something quiet, and lyrical, and beautiful to begin the year.

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Nocturne in D-flat major, Op. 27, No. 2; Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995), piano, 1956


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lagniappe

reading table

year after year—
the monkey wearing
a monkey’s mask

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), New Year’s Day, 1693 (translated from Japanese by David Landis Barnhill)