One of the disruptions of the year was the termination of my position at Holy Trinity Church, and the resulting loss of income. I've been trying to find practically any suitable part-time employment to make up that lost income since June. I've interviewed at various places, but haven't gotten anywhere as yet. I'm not going to belabor the point, but only wanted to report the matter here.
New listening today is a Grateful Dead album I've been curious about forever: Aoxomoxoa. Separately, this may be an album which it is impossible to successfully ask an Amazon Echo device to play. I do not qualify by any means as a Deadhead. I enjoy but am not overwhelmingly enthusiastic over American Beauty and Workingman's Dead. And, against the grain of the true fandom for the band, the two tracks I play most frequently are "Touch of Gray" and "Alabama Getaway." Of my initial encounter with the famous palindromic album, I can report that I find it interesting more than enjoyable, per se, which of course does not rule out revision in the future. My biggest takeaway today was that, if I felt any artistic discomfort about my writing very brief pieces of late, here were several short songs which, if at the moment I'm not sure I'm crazy about, Jerry Garcia felt that he owned them sufficiently for publication.
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