Five plus hours plus music


FIVE + hours of sleep in bed. Two hours off and on in the chair do not count. PARTY anyway.

 

Brain is still running around in the harmonies and dancing in the variations from TWO musical events, the Bach B Minor Mass and an organ recital.

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