Fudenji – Tempio Zen
Do not care for happiness
nor escape unhappiness
– G. Leopardi
I misread the quote and thought it read like this:
Do not care for happiness
nor escape happiness
Hm, I do like that better. The meaning gains a spark, a lift by removing the negation. It becomes instantly brighter. Don’t run after it, but don’t run away from it either. I think I’ll claim that:
Do not care for happiness
nor escape happiness
– zenho
Drinks at Bond, dinner at Officina 12 on the Canal. Same as in 2005 and just as good. A beautiful ending to my stay in Milan. Ciao…
The Connected House… Above photo was taken yesterday en route to lunch.
This morning I went to a nearby park, which looked timeless…
And then moved to a different hotel in the center of Milan. A familiar room in my favorite hotel.
Radiomontecarlo.net : Monte Carlo Nights
Last night at the Blue Note I did an interview with Nick, the Nightfly between my sets. We met for the first time in 1994, I believe. He mentioned that next year his program will be twenty years old and I answered that I recorded “Nouveau Flamenco” twenty years ago next year… Time is like climbing a mountain. We take one little breathless step at a time, but at intervals we look back and are amazed at the view back down the valley… Twenty years – almost half of my life. A long time or not time at all… :)
The first set was recorded for broadcast.
I wish I’d speak Italian.
Mural on the wall of a small neighborhood bar.
Here is a side view of the Blue Note’s stage. Larger than the New York club. 
The second performance at 11PM was, shall we say “not crowded”? I set myself a new challenge: can I play for an hour (duration of a set at the Blue Note Milan) without stopping? So I played an hour-long medley of my music. My back hurt a little afterward, because I did not stop to stretch, but I liked how the music developed. I hope that it felt like a movie, when experienced with the slideshow.
