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• 11 Nov, 2025 *

If any of you have been in my internet spheres for a while, you may remember my first video collage ever, documenting the first snow of 2024. That was my very first time experimenting with many things artistically, mainly Premiere Pro, and posting my piano and singing online.

I decided to make a new tradition in my life by documenting the first snow of 2025 as well! Funny, this one came almost a month before the first snow of last year did. No singing this year, just Charlie Brown Christmas, a month earlier all the same.

In other news, my friend that I wrote about in this recent post found it and responded to me! I love being a little sneaky that way, writing about people that I know are bound to find it one way or another, now or later. She did raise a very important correction for me that I must share with you all.

When I said that her quote about nourishing conversation was from a friend, the friend I thought she was talking about was actually essayist Vivian Gornick. She was mentioning a quote from Gornick’s essay At the University: Little Murders of the Soul, from her essay collection Approaching Eye Level. In the quote that my friend posthumously provided me, Gornick writes:

Good conversation is dependent on a simple but mysterious fit of mind and spirit that cannot be achieved, it just occurs. It’s not a matter of mutual interests or class concerns or commonly held ideals, it’s a matter of temperament; the thing that makes someone respond instinctively with an appreciative “I know just what you mean,” rather than a challenging “What do you mean by that?” In the presence of shared temperament conversation almost never loses its free, unguarded flow. In its absence one is always walking on eggshells. Shared temperament is analogous to the way a set of gears works. The idea is not complicated but the mesh must be perfect. Not approximate, perfect. Otherwise the gears refuse to turn.

I believe Gornick describes the feeling that we both had much more eloquently than I did, but my sentiment remains!

Edit: Just received a note from my lovely guitar playing friend that my recent video inspired him to do the same. What an addicting feeling it is to inspire and be inspired by the people around me. Sorry for calling you out, haha!

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