Yesterday afternoon I played my final opera performance as a tenured member of Opera San José.
After the concert I was honored at a reception, and then it was off to Il Fornaio where we had dinner. (MANY thanks to Pam Hakl for arranging this!)
Today we board a plane and fly overseas. What a time!
This morning I paid a hefty fee to our accountant, for his tax prep. I changed the bed sheets, washed all the towels, cleaned the toilets, straightened things up around the house, took the recycling and compost out, showered … all the stuff one must do before a trip, of course. Dan did a lot as well. Still, we were ready ahead of schedule.
My sister drove us to SFO … thank you, Carolyn! It took a few minutes to check our luggage (more on that later), and NO time at all to go through security. We are now comfortably seated in the Polaris lounge.
After our champagne we had a somewhat light meal, and now we are sitting back in some comfy chairs, waiting for boarding time.
Rough life, eh?
Looks like a smooth transition, to me. Enjoy being a civilian! It would not surprise me at all to find out that you may be more busy (even musically) in retirement than you were in the before times.
Never know what may happen but, God willing, we have some more traveling in our lives. I really don’t know what I’ll do musically. Time will tell!
Yes, all in good time! I got a wonderful piece of advice last week in an online Master Class. I had presented a brief passage from the Klughardt quintet that I can just never seem to play cleanly at speed. The clinician suggested I try it “in yoga time”. Voila! There it was! Stay centered, my friends!
Happy retirement and safe travels!