I am sitting in the old chai by the river as an orchestra tunes up. The space is both familiar and strange. I know this 18th century ceiling of massive oak beams vaulted overhead. But the windows are newly painted, and the wine barrels have vanished. Then the music swells and the poignant violins of a Sibelius Impromptu fly me into another epoch. The children are with me. Decades ago. We’re traipsing over the dirt floor of this old winery, trying to sort out the neglect, dragging 60-year-old wine barrels to the chain saw where John is slicing […]
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