tibetan new year and more photos from spain

if i understood correctly, the songs and dances are performed specifically for the new year and for special events such as the dalai lama's birthday.

singers from the local cultural group . . i think the host said it was their first time performing the piece.

the gong exhibit was one chanda experienced in the spring and summer, but which i hadn't seen yet. 

"finding stillness within anger . . "

the gongs were chosen by different musicians . . 

a docent explained the procedure and then attendees could take a turn. it was very crowded so we decided to pass on trying it during this visit. we went downstairs for a cup of tea before heading home (chanda went to the library at school which was just a few blocks away).

it's a very beautiful exhibit and i look forward to returning. i think the children gathered around her were excited about taking a turn with the gong. 

it was a fun event . .

walking home . . 

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morgan sent a few more photos from madrid:

we always admire the tile/pavement work in european countries . . 

more antique stores . . 

cute little tuxedo cat . . 

tuxedo cats seem to be popular in madrid.

delicious looking food . .

paperwhites and dumplings

i finally took the old paperwhites off the windowsill and placed the new three bulbs i bought in december in glass jars with stones. i planted last year's paperwhites in montauk. i'm hoping they bloom this spring. 

it's lunar new year. we ordered dumplings from red farm to celebrate. i've never had their food before, and these were delicious (very fancy presentation!). we had the crunchy peanut, three vegetable, and pork and crab soup dumplings. the three of us shared them (don't worry, we also had some soup) as they were quite pricey.

i also went back and finished a post from 2016. it had been sitting open on my desktop whenever i opened firefox along with twenty other tabs. this morning firefox opened to just two tabs, and this old, unfinished post was one of them. it's a very long post as it's not broken up into days, just one long entry about a week's vacation. i also realized that i had posted during the vacation from either my cell phone or greg's laptop or someone else's laptop, so i guess it's a many layered account. 

as to all the other tabs . . i suppose i could find them in the browser's history . . but maybe the ones i can't remember aren't all that important. sometimes i can't keep all my thoughts in their proper drawers in my mind, and some slip out an open window . . in my imagination it's a clear blue sky.

a cape cod vacation post.