Mountains and Valleys

It's the 200th StrongBad email today! Callooh, callay! How I do love the StrongBad one!

Okay, enough of that. Not that a grown man like me would be so excited about a cartoon episode full of adolescent humor and poor grammar... nope, not AT ALL. I can't lie, there is something about Homestarrunner that just makes me happy! I think it is the unashamed wackiness of it. Seriously, you have three grown adults making a living off of a website about a main character with no visible arms, a king who eats anything, a villian in a Mexican wrestling mask and boxing gloves, and a The Cheat. What gets any better than that!?!

I'll tell you what gets better than that - last night M and I were having FHE (Family Home Evening). It's every Monday and we discuss a church talk or something, and then we have an activity we do together and a treat (if we're really prepared)! Last night we went to see Pablo Mahave-Vegila, a cellist and professor from Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Michelle has been wanting to get a cello for a while, since she had to sell her's in college, so I thought that she'd enjoy the recital.

It was awesome! I was blown away by how beautiful the music was and how intricate and complex it must be to the musician. Mr. Mahave-Vegila was playing three 20-min. pieces by Bach by heart! I know when I learn a piece of music, I imagine sections of it like landscapes (mountainous for low-register parts and valleys for high, don't ask me why). With him I could just imagine how the landscape must look: it was almost like a scramble across a mountainside, not an ascent of descent.