Today, I sight read “Rainbow Connection,” from the Muppet Movie. There are also some memories in the post related to experiences on a recent trip, and past trips, to the beach.
Media Logs
Vlog
Github Study Respository
Link to my Github repository containing music notes.
General Session Records
| Date Session | Duration (Minutes) | Public Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-29 | 20 | MLWL study of vowels.MLWL study of vowels. Low notes. |
| 2025-09-30 | 20 | MLWL vowel study. Holding low notes. |
| 2025-10-01 | 20 | MWLW vowel study. Low notes. |
| 2025-10-05 | 35 | MWLW vowel study. Low notes. |
Memories to Share
A Visit to the Beach
Late on Wednesday night, I drove with my children to the airport for a flight to visit family in California. As a part of our trip, we spent an afternoon at the beach.
While the young children in our group were giggling as they played in the sand, and as I watched the foaming waves wash over my feet, my mind briefly returned to a memory from when I was a child living in California.
On a cloudy day, my parents and my aunts and uncles took me and my siblings to a beach that was similar. My uncle went for a swim in the waves. The surf was a bit high, although the size of the waves was not far beyond usual.
My uncle dived to go underneath one wave, intending to come back up after the wave had passed. His idea was to catch a new breath of air before the next wave approached, and then dive under again.
However, when he came back up his timing was off. Instead of breaching the surface of the water in the calm between the waves, he came up in the white turbulence of a crashing wave. His open mouth filled with water and his lungs quickly became clogged.
Again and again he tried to dive and come up between the waves, but his luck somehow never seemed to connect with a peaceful moment and he began to drown. As I seem to recall, he passed out entirely.
People on the beach noticed him floundering and some men went to save him. They carried him back onto shore and helped him to clear out his lungs and regain consciousness. He was exhausted and not in his normal talkative and funny mood for the rest of the day.
Throughout the last several years, as I have tried to get my feet under me as an adult, this memory has often returned to me. Sometimes, I feel like I just can’t seem to catch a breath of clean air. Every time I think I’ve come to a peaceful place where I can establish a routine and breathe clean and clear, I find that instead a surprising wave of disorder is crashing down over my head.
I’m grateful for the people in my life who have helped me make it through some of the more difficult times. My grandmother, one of the people we were visiting in California, is one of those people. She has listened, and listened, and listened. I’m grateful for the peaceful presence she has offered as I have struggled for air between the waves.
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No artificial intelligence was used for the writing or performing portion of this blog post.
I used Google’s Gemini AI to help me create and manage my sql database for tracking relevant data. For example, I used Google Gemini to write a script that exports my singing data records from my custom PostgreSQL database and format the data as an HTML table.
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