I DO occasionally write about other stuff besides politics, here's an excerpt from a recent post on the OTJ Forum that I wanted to share...


"...just the act of putting the mouthpiece into the horn at all, let alone endeavoring to produce a sound out of it, starts us down the path of resolving one problem, only to discover another. Thoreau said that "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them." Then, there are trombonists, whose lives are not quiet, but are no less desperate..."