Today I got myself up and out the door just past 6:30, and rode in superb conditions—calm, pale, 61° sunlight. Despite that, however, I decided to settle for a single round trip to Marsh Park, riding 10.1 miles in 1:22. I wrestled long and hard with myself over whether to do a second round trip, but in the end I decided to keep it shorter so that I could devote more time to composition.
The accident that so transformed my life occurred on May 22, 1993. In the hours immediately after it, while I lay in coma, the doctors told Michelle that she should know there was a strong chance I would not survive the night. Because of this, we now observe May 22 as Life Day.
When I posted about this on Facebook this past spring, a friend (Peter Moberg) who is a fellow alumnus of St. Olaf College, and sang in the St. Olaf Choir with me, playfully remarked, "Life Day would be a great title for a musical composition! Know anyone who writes music?" And since I'm working at trying to rebuild my piano performance abilities, and also find great joy and satisfaction in playing in our church's handbell choir (The Rings of the Lord), I am writing it for piano and handbells.
Also, over a decade about I bought a large Time-Life multi-CD set of recordings of Christian contemporary music called Songs4Worship. I put them all into the iTunes library on my laptop, and on my iPod, and usually listen to them when I work out at LA Fitness early on Sunday mornings. But during this time of year when I'm able to ride outside, I carry my phone with me, and can listen to music on Spotify. I have discovered that most of the songs are commercially available and can thus be searched for on Spotify and added to the Songs4Worship playlist I've created there. So this morning I listened to that.
Finally, in light of the damage I did to the pouch my friend Len gave me a few months back to hang about my neck and carry my phone, I picked up a new one on Amazon (for a whopping $4.99) and so will be able to move Len's into a backup role. Used the new one this morning for the first time.
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