Organists and Organ Playing

You ought to write a book!

How many times have I heard that? It’s true that when people retire, they often think about writing a book about their life’s experiences. Hey, there’s even a book on how to do it!

You can get this book from Amazon!

(I have not read this book, so I have no idea whether it’s any good or not!)

Well, instead of writing a book, I’m updating this blog, and reliving many of the experiences I had from eleven years ago — that’s when I starting writing this blog.

Today I updated these posts from 2010, when we visited Paris—my first visit to the city in 43 years since being a student there in 1968.

I’ll never forgot the stools we sat on during an organ concert at St. Gervais on the Fourth of July, 2010. The recitalist was American and played the Star Spangled Banner (!) which sounded strange in this ancient French church.

In updating the posts, I’m finding that it’s actually easier to locate all my old photos from my phone, so I am actually uploading more photos in addition to just updating the links to the previous ones.

I encourage you to click the links above to “travel along with me” in our trip to France in 2010. I will be letting you know of my progress with the old posts and we can all relive these experiences together.

Let me apologize to all of my subscribers for the duplicate set of email messages that were sent out yesterday. I’m using a new email subscriber app and obviously still have a lot of kinks to work out.

You all were supposed to have gotten news of my last post:

02/11 | If only I knew … this post was written in reaction to my shipment of Cornet Barcelona tumblers.

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Thanks for your patience!