Wednesday, September 22nd
Fall officially starts today sometime and the weather is still 95 degrees out there. The endless summer continues on relentlessly. Everyone is letting their lawns parch and the leaves collect as no one wants to be out of doors in this ridiculous weather. At this rate, we'll be in the 80s at Christmas.Tommy and I had a good time in NOLA for labor day weekend. We're getting middle aged so we didn't spend too much time carousing but had a couple of very nice days gallery hopping and hanging out with friends. That weekend was the one time the weather broke a bit so NOLA was bearable in Tshirt and shorts. The next weekend, I was off in the woods for the opening retreat of the Leadership Birmingham program - bootcamp for civic leaders is probably the best description. It's going to be an interesting year as they mix us all up and make us think about the issues confronting the city and the region - political, economic and social. We got a bit of a history lesson that weekend and the patterns being played out now are deep seated. The history of Birmingham is one of wasted opportunities due to people putting their parochial self interests before the greater good.
I'm doing a lot of lecturing this week on my usual topics of geropharmacy and economics of medicare and the health care system. Keeps the performance skills going even when I'm not on stage. Nothing happening in that department this fall but I do start rehearsal this weekend for the Opera Birmingham chorus. 'Faust' runs the last week of January.
posted by Andy @ 2:18 PM
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