
One after the other, Harriet and I are out the door to the great gray -- now the hour of reconaissance for the Theoreticians with the final exam, thereafter to the

lab to record to begin the composition of Opus 186 Christmas Carrels, starting with

J: To the Veldt,
recording that as well as

Vespers: IX. Audi Coelum (Part II)
and the beginning of X. Psalm 147 - Lauda Jerusalem.

Meanwhile the day has decented up enough such that it seems that the weekly trip to Marin might be auspicious -- besides there are still many papers to grade -- so off to the environs of Celia's and

thence to the postbox

for financial greetings

and

north

for

a

final walk on

Sonoma

Mountain

Road, now from

Hidden

Acres

to

Pressley

Junction.

Turkeys fore and

aft,

and

portentious

clouds on the way home to compose two more pages of Vespers: X.