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Credit where credit is due, this new blog is brought to you by the marvels of Dragonspeak. I have long been acquainted with the Dragon and I should assure you that this is a tame Dragon. I also have been tamed -- please see The Little Prince, "if you please, sir, draw me a sheep."

There is a certain intimidation factor in starting something as new to me as writing onlinebut it is also obvious that getting into it is easier than ever so I do think Mr. Blogspot for helping me into what I anticipated to be a project taking several days or possibly altogether impossible.

Also thinking about and thanking, "smoke on the water and fire in the sky," which I will eventually compose differently once I have the ability to post a photograph.

I do not want to cast any stones in this blog nor do I want it to crystallize prematurely; I would like to keep it as malleable as possible. If I have a primary goal it would be to look at the world or the people in it not as mere objects or, worse, as a sum total of their current opinions.

An aside:The term,basso continuo, is a musical term to designate something like background noise only more organized. One example would be the piano line used to accompany a soloist or even a trio just to imagine a couple of possibilities. In fact, there are many possibilities suggested by this term. I came across the term many times in playing recorder music and many times my mother came to the rescue providing the basso continuo lines some of which of course include the bass clef, something which I never learned to read or play even though I have sort of a bass voice. Currently I am playing drums mostly and am being asked (or forced perhaps is a better word) to provide the bass line for the entire group which has only a piano and no guitars. A secondary goal might be to spare the world any bass drum solos.I am reminded of a cartoon in The New Yorker which is a drawing of a person behind a large drum set, asking, "Any requests?"the title for this particular work is, "Drum Bar." "What's wrong with a five-minute drum solo?"
Answer: it's 4 1/2 minutes too long!

With that, I think I will close. I think it important to keep these postings fairly brief. To quote T.S. Eliot, "I shore these fragments against my ruins," -- but hopefully not against yours! With love, Bill Schuler