My first connection with a major solar eclipse took place on a Saturday afternoon when I was in seventh grade. I was taking part in a local program aimed at teaching daily living skills to adolescents who were blind. News of the eclipse only came from the radio in the kitchen from which the DJ regularly announced that it was getting dark because of the eclipse.
“Duh,” I thought.
Several replays of George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun” heralded the…..
Time, New England — Recently, musicologists have made a startling discovery, perhaps more startling than the unearthing of a treasure trove of music written by PDQ Bach, the black sheep of the Bach family.
“We’ve just found a new piano concerto composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff,” proclaimed Larry Lowman, professor emeritus at McDonalds University. “It’s a true miracle that we found it.”
This piece has tentatively been designated as Rachmaninoff’s Fifth Piano Concerto in E.
The discovery of the work,…..
About a year ago, Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback of the National Football League’s San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand during the playing of the United States’ national anthem, first sitting then kneeling. He advocated that law enforcement officers treat African Americans more justly, emphasizing his points with clothing offensive to many people. At the end of the season, he left the 49ers, and since then, no pro football team has signed him, despite the consensus that his skills are…..
Five years ago, at around 9:30 AM, I was sitting in a circle with a high school wrestler, an aspiring English teacher, a nun, the owner of a small business, a circus clown, an administrative assistant, the matriarch of a large family, and several other men and women from a variety of backgrounds. All of us were blind, and each of us was eagerly waiting to learn the name, gender, and breed of the guide dog with which we would…..