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The Continental Centre, downtown Columbus.
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Rendezvous
at the Riffe
BalletMet Columbus
Registering
Kaufmann's, Bed Bath and Beyond
We
finally settled on a silverware pattern that is modern enough and
yet traditional enough for us both. Of course, they don't carry it
at Kaufmann's.
(They
do carry it at Macy's /nee Lazarus, but Federated is closing the downtown
Lazarus flagship store because they don't wish to be bothered trying
to understand downtown retailing; they're quite happy just putting
up new huge boxes further and further into the hinterlands thank you
very much. If they can't be bothered about Columbus, I can't be bothered
about them -- we won't be registering there. We journeyed to the fifth
or sixth floor of the store to take another look at the pattern and
make sure we were really OK with it; we were. But the space is just
incredible -- what they could do with it if they wanted to!)
Bed
Bath and Beyond doesn't carry it in their stores, but they do have
it on their website. If our registration ever shows up on the web,
we ought to be able to add it there.
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Columbus Museum of Art.
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The
Girl with the Pearl Earring
Amy says the book was much better. Maybe I'll have to read it; I enjoyed
the movie.
Apple's
Sherlock movie feature
Old
Mohawk
It's been a long time since we made it to the Old Mohawk for dinner
-- it was our favorite place to walk to when Amy lived in German Village.
Amy
to Columbus
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Columbus Museum of Art. Someday I want to get together a
mobile for the back stairway in my house. It's a great space for it,
high and vertical with a window for light -- and mobiles are wonderful
for their shadows. Someday.
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Choir
rehearsal
Early to allow some to make it a bell choir concert at Grace Brethren
Church. We did all right on Rutter Requiem (to be sung on Palm Sunday),
but The Best of Rooms, a beautiful a cappella piece that Al wanted
to get in prior to Easter, has been postponed do to excessive trouble
locating the right notes.
Newspapers
do worry about fairness
And sometimes even tear up the front page and hold the (hitherto)
lead story just minutes from deadline.
Be
fair. Call and ask. X will probably say "no comment"
or "talk to my lawyer" (who will then say "no comment")
or X won't return calls. But you still ought to try.
And
then hearing of a leading Columbus businessman's death, we had to
tear up page 3, too. Irving
Schottenstein
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Columbus Museum of Art. Chihuly
and reflection, Derby Court.
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Deadline
day
Worked late.
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Columbus Museum of Art. Spirit.
Barrel on a rope (that room is at least 12 feet tall). (From Sunday
visit).
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Worked
late
Draft concepts for redesigns of some newspaper sections.
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Olentangy River. There
used to be numerous places to pull to the side of the road, park,
and walk down to the river to wade, fish, surf, whatever. As befits
one of the fastest growing and richest (Delaware) counties in Ohio
and the Midwest, the flanking roads are now covered with "No
Trespassing" and "No Parking" signs. As far as I know,
the river itself is still public, but the public has no chance of
getting to it.
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Sunday morning bloom. And slight thaw outside. Perhaps there
is hope for Spring after all?
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Many
Gifts, One Spirit
Sang we, the choir
Pastor Talley preached on Goin' Fishin'; almost convincingly. Fishing
was religion for Grandpa, maybe still is for Dad; I can enjoy the
solitude, the peace, and the calm, but fishin's just not that same
ole religion anymore.
I
can remember getting up at 5 to go fishing with Grandpa. I can remember
going out in the boat when you couldn't see five feet out for the
fog. I can also remember when there were fish in the lake to catch.
It
wasn't that long ago.
M, D, & Grandma
went out for lunch with Dave & Bette to celebrate M&D's birthdays,
so I was left to fend for myself. I stopped by the Columbus Art Museum
before heading home.
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