Delivering Missouri the instruments delivered to the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota; we donated these unique and delicate objects, and it was wonderful to sense the humidity/temperature controlled environment, necessary for their preservation. http://www.alansondheim.org/nmm04.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/nmm06.jpg a few days ago, by the banks of the wandering, sinuous, sandbanked, debris-gathering, Missouri River, with signs of the encroaching rigidity of civilization and parceling out the rigor of surveying and flood control http://www.alansondheim.org/missouri.mp4 we were traveling at 70 mph, well below the speed limit, a grackle started to fly into the car, I braked, the bird hit on the left rounded hood surface, the sound was terrible, the first time for me, the bird disappeared, no trace, perhaps stunned somewhere, perhaps flown off, perhaps broken the cars don't belong on the road their encroaching rigidity we brought the instruments to the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
