Born A Crime

  - That book, by Trevor Noah, is excellent. There are books that stay with you, and this is one of them. 

After all the things I did yesterday, I took today kind of off, and stayed in bed until a bit past 6, reading the rest of this book. 

Of course I practiced, shinobue and "Danny Boy", Twinkle" and "Frere Jacques" and trying to get all the notes sounding clear and strong. I remember when I first got this little shinobue and I was struggling to get the higher octave notes on the higher notes and now they're all old hat. So my breath has gotten stronger. 

Then shakuhachi, lots of long tones and the usual tunes.