Deeann D. Mathews
Writer, composer-arranger, pianist, singer, and eater of kiwifruit with the peel
Coming Into Summer with a Whole New View, Part 1 (Beethoven, Löwe, Cocker and Warnes, Rowe and Smith, Wagner, Mozart)
July at last ... for six months I have waited and done only what I was medically advised to do with somehow asymptomatic but critically severe anemia, on the promise that if I did, I would be
Motivational Mondays: My Local Squirrels on My Favorite Hill Have More Sense than Some Humans Nowadays, But We Can Catch Up
First weekend in July ... recovered around 90 percent from my bout with anemia in the winter so I can get out and do the kind of walking I want! Summer is here and the regular San Francisco fog w
"The Eisenblumenkinding," Week 6: Using Steely Resolve to Actually Do What I Came and Went to Do (Negro Spiritual, Bach, Bruckner, Federico Mompou)
I recognize my journey is off the beaten path, not always where the comfortable places to sit are ... gotta climb behind the benches, sometimes by a path that is only highlighted by my fellow flo
"The Eisenblumenkinding," Week 5: Invisibility Comes With the Protection Package, As It Happens (Mercer and Mancini, Berg, Stolz, Strauss)
Shakespeare said it well: "To sleep, perchance to dream" ... and just like Hamlet's father in Hamlet, there are some literary ghosts who just make it their business to come blow your mind and re
"The Eisenblumenkinding," Week 4: Discovering a Cloaking Device (Blue Mountain, Beethoven, Strauss, Arlen and Harburg, Zaret and North, Brahms)
There was no way I was going to attempt to write out "Becoming the Invisible Flower Child" in German even though the Ghost of Musical Greatness Past last week was kind enough -- before laughing hi
"The Eisenblumenkinding," Week 3: Did You Know that Iron Flowers Float, and that You Can Do Alchemy With Them? (Schubert, Löwe, Rachmaninoff)
Walk with me on this for a minute ... iron floats every day in steel ships ... in airplanes, in spaceships, whenever and wherever to purpose it is so formed. It can be done ... even a steel sardin
