My band kids struggled valiantly with my "complex" piece. They could have pulled it off if I had given it to them months ago, but my energy and creativity didn't get going in time. So, I pulled that one and in a matter of days produced an upbeat, skippy little march for them, using a ninth chord as the thematic harmony.
Unfortunately the effort has undermined my condition, and now I am fading out too early in the day and too early in the week. I have the band concert in one month almost exactly to the day. Somehow I will have to drag myself over the finish line. It wouldn't be so bad if it were possible to recover enough in my "vacation" time.
I am surrounded by noise, stress, disorder, strife, incompetence, frustration, decay, immaturity, idiocy, unreality, and cluelessness. In other words, SNAFU. Perhaps it is the fate of the aging to see clearly all those things that you have seen repeated in the past, while knowing full well that trying to tell anybody or warn them is completely pointless, like trying to warn opossums to stay out of the road in the spring. Wisdom is something you aquire because you didn't have it the first time you needed it. There sure are a lot of first-timers out there!
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