I’m in a cab on my way to the recording studio, where I’ll record, god willing, the Songs and Poems. I don’t know the engineer, I don’t know the studio. But I’m in such a beautiful city, on such a beautiful day, it’s hard to have any serious anxiety about it. But it is a huge undertaking so I have been super conscious of how I got my day started, mental and physical prep, packing, etc. We’ve extended our stay here in Mérida by a few days instead of the trip to Belize we’d planned. The boys love it here! It’s funny to me; we spent a few days an hour north, at Sisal, a small beach town on the Gulf. To me it was absolute heaven. The Airbnb was perfect, it opened up right onto the beach. The seabirds were unreal. Just a magical place. But on our second night, the boys were like, “when are we going back to Mérida?!” So, since we’ll be doing a lot of shorter stays and country-hopping in Europe, our next leg, we thought “let’s save some $ for that, chill here.” Plus since I’ve had this crazy residency, I haven’t had as much time to just explore the surroundings, so I’m looking forward to more of that. And the extra time means I can give the violists I’ve met and connected with at the UNAY a Bach class next week. When I wrote to them asking if they’d like one (one of them had asked me if I could hear his Bach, and I’d heard a few of them fiddling through different Bachs, so I thought, let’s do a class), they immediately responded with dancing cat and cute frog GIFs. I’ve found my people.
December 4
