Nostalgia

Diary 5/30/23:

Just saw the movie “Paris Can Wait” with Diane Lane in the lead role of a married woman who decides to travel to Paris with her husband’s business partner. I won’t go into the details of the movie. It was written, produced and directed by Eleanor Coppola. I remember Diane from when I got involved in work teaching martial arts fist and staff forms and movement in a 2-week theatre workshop in 1974 or 75 to the Great Jones Repertory Company under director Andre Serban.

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The bonsai at Arnold Arboretum

This is one of the best renditions of the piece on the guzheng/zither. I’ve heard many different versions of it through the years (since the 1970s). The first time I heard it I instinctively asked myself, Is my Tai chi chuan form as good? I’ve also heard it on the pipa/lute. One time on the cruise to the 3 Gorges and the Great Dam on the Yangzi River, it was played by a young Chinese woman on the boat.

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