Watching the tv series A French Village again. On Kanopy now. So amazing. I love so many of these actors and the idea of recreating another time and place. Art does that. Margaret Atwood’s latest substack addresses another time and place, the revolutions in French and America. I must read it a third time. At first it seemed about the right wing – Project 2025 – but then she turns her spotlight on Lenin, Stalin and Robespierre on all the murdering of the opposition. Some technique. I think she shows objectivity towards the madness of each side. As much as one might try, one cannot escape madness. Part of the plan considering we all live with knowing we don’t live, the omnipresent mad proposition running through all life. Try your best to appeal towards sanity but you never know when someone crinkles cellophane in the quiet part or shoots heroin or runs the red light. I had a small epiphany surrounding the 7th chords and their four inversions. I also was inspired by a flutist playing after the open stage last night though I didn’t stick around to find her email. She would be a perfect soloist if I played those types of voicings on Sam’s song when we have a night celebrating his music two weeks from now.