Archives for January 2012

I’m not making any clever resolutions this year–I’m too distracted by my mother’s illness, and 2011 was so complicated a mixture of success and sorrow that I scarcely know what to think about the year that’s just arrived. I’ll try my best to be a good husband, a good son, a good friend, and a good writer, and that will have to do.
May all of you know comfort and joy in 2012.

Glenn Gould plays the opening aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations in 1981:

“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”
E.M. Forster, “The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy”