Daily Thinking

I cannot bear the days without the arts. In three days, I will have stayed here for a full month without being accompanied by music. I am dying because of the thirst for music. John and I walked around Kampala for the whole day trying to find a proper piano store which did not exist at all. I was, in the end, terribly tired both mentally and physically. I want to compose something on the piano, something which is to get out of me and can only be expressed through music.

For the past few days, I have, for the first time in my life, dedicated myself on reading books. Sometimes I even wonder how I came this far by reading so few books(in fact, I have never actually finished reading any book), receiving so little education either academically or musically, and ruining so many social relationships. So I am therefore sympathetically proud of myself reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle for which I determined to continue until the last page.

I do feel grateful for being granted the ability to appreciate beauties in life, though not always creating them. To appreciate simplicity is, so far, the only complexity worth pursuing in life.