{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Isaac Greene","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/isaacgreene","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1004038","username":"isaacgreene","bio":"I'm a guitarist and educator. My day job is as a professor at a smallish Christian liberal-arts university where I teach guitar, ear training, improvisation, and music technology. Outside of music, I read a lot about technology and culture, some fiction, and I'm a hobbyist handtool woodworker. I also have three small children with whom I do a lot of bike riding. ","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":97,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/50/1004038.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"96908334","content_html":"

@Miraz With all the studies showing the benefits of coffee, I try to hedge my bets and drink both in substantial amounts.

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@JudsonGreene And still no Yous/Yinz.

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@jabel @jaheppler I had this memory of my parents listening to Hannah Coulter on a roadtrip when I was a teenager and thinking it was the most boring thing. At some point I realized they were both crying in the front seats and I didn’t get it. I probably have enough years behind me to get it now.

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@jabel I do think it’s time I finally get to some of the fiction, I’ve mostly read nonfiction and poetry.

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@apoorplayer This was very insightful, thank you. One possible meaning of “I blog for myself” is that blogging makes me a better writer (since there’s an audience) just like I practice the guitar a lot more when I have a concert coming up. I don’t think it always implies ignoring the existence of readers.

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Leaving

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Parting from you, rising\ninto the air, I enter again\nthe absence we came together in.\nMy ways in house and field\nand woods have reached an end,\ndismembered of each other\nand of me. And you remain\non the earth we knew, already changing\ninto the earth you know.\nFire-driven through the air,\nI go alone, a part of what, together, we became.

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Wendell Berry (1934-2026)

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@andrewz I don’t have much to compare it to, maybe it’s the midpoint between True Grit and Gilead. Lots of vivid descriptive writing (like this), but not humorous and about RC missionaries in the American south west. Absolutely recommend.

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Speaking of olfactory memories, today the twins and I rode to a cafe where they have this amazing bread. We hadn’t gotten ours yet when one of them said “remember when Mama got stuck at the airport and we went to get her?” That was in July, and when my wife called we were eating that bread.

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@JohnBrady That is a phenomena that comes down through the blues tradition, which is not in equal-temperament at all. Electric guitar playing is pretty much all downstream of that somehow.

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It’s a different matter on classical guitar. On early versions the player placed the frets (gut strings tied around the neck) and had to do a pythagorean calculation for it. It seems though that in practice they would adjust them to a happy medium for their most common keys so they didn’t have to adjust between keys, since nobody ever spoke about adjusting for keys.

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The insults do not stop:

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No professional singer would think of being accompanied on the guitar; and if the instrument maintains its ground in practice at all, it is in consequence of its convenience, of fashion, and above all, of the badness of people’s ears.

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General T. Perronet Thompson, Instruction to my Daughter for Playing on the Enharmonic Guitar (1829).

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Disguising his polemic as a method book, the General was one of the first in a long line of cranks railing against equal-tempered tuning, a tradition I proudly carry on. More about his tuning system here.

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📚Finished Reading: Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather.

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An understated book with a big impact. Just packed with passages of incredible beauty.

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Muscadine Memories: isaacgreene.com

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@canneddragons my childhood cat looked exactly like Snickers.

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@wcaleb I’ve got mine on the cabinet that holds my guitars and is right in view of where my students sit for lessons. The guitar also has a surprising amount of detail.

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@manton Carlo Rovelli’s books might interest you. The most vivid and clear description of quantum concepts I’ve encountered (and he writes beautifully too).

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This Franscisco [Corbetta, a very important early guitarist] had just composed a sarabande which so charmed or desolated everyone, that all the guitar players in the court set about learning it, and God knows the strumming that ensued everywhere.

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Meanwhile, Samuel Pepys was “mightily troubled that all that pains should have been taken upon so bad an instrument.” Opinions were about as strong about guitars then as during the Worship Wars.

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Mr. Rogers and Dolly Parton: isaacgreene.com

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My cargo bike was stabled for several weeks waiting for parts and the time to work on it. Finally rode last night and remembered what a big part of our family sanity daily bike rides are.

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@ctwardy If nothing else, Wagner inspired more witty banter than maybe any other composer. I love Mark Twain’s account from visiting the Bayreuth opera house.

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First day of classes, year five.

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Got to my office to discover a campuswide wifi outage - hopefully not a bad augury for the semester.

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@davoh Such a good word for my first day of classes. Thank you, David.

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@thebigbabooski I haven’t, intriguing though. Our trip was Riga and Tallin, with a pilgrimage to Laulasmaa to visit the Arvo Pärt center.

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@todd I’m amazed at the increase in quality an experience takes on when you eliminate the car. My cargo bike is down right down, so I drove the kids to the park we usually ride to. Spent most of our time parking and walking through a 100 degree parking lot instead of rolling right up and unloading.

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@thebigbabooski A good day to watch The Singing Revolution if you haven’t seen it! I took students to the Estonian song festival last summer and it was one of the most impactful experiences of my life.

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@dwalbert It seems that enough publicity about bad deals has gotten around that people are wising up. One of their council members has traveled the country and put in some serious research to figure out how to handle this, I’m impressed. Not bad for a little town in PA.

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@madaga it’s a thrilling ending for sure! Hawthorne is always up to something, lots to think about in his books.

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@jabel I understand from my
\nYouth Spies that “crazy things people will do for cash” is a huge genre on YouTube (lots of Mr Beast’s videos are of this type). As if the online space weren’t degrading enough…

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Good update on the data center situation I blogged about: just talked to my brother and it seems the township is doing a good job creating an ordinance that protects farmland and residential areas. As of the last planning meeting he attended they are no longer a location under consideration.

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@canneddragons This conversation has been slowly simmering in my household for quite a while. I completely agree with you, but have yet to find a persuasive argument that just looking at things on the website constitutes support. That is how these things make money though.

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I got a strong whiff of the internet of my childhood from this website. I don’t even know what to call it, but it has a mudlarking section, a sacred wishing well, and a virtual microfilm machine.

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Place Oddities

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@bradleyandroos oh man, it’s a huge body of work and I only know bits and pieces of the music and almost nothing about his visual art. Music for Airports is the classic ambient album, the collaborations with Harold Budd are also amazing. I love Another Day on Earth for song-based music, and his album with John Cale (of Velvet Underground fame) is great as well. He’s the ultimate collaborator, every project he works on is better for it.

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@JudsonGreene is that a… monk second from the right? Some real characters.

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@bradleyandroos You would probably dig the little book I posted yesterday. Following a similar idea as this.

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@apoorplayer I have lots of thoughts on this. For me (a blogging youngster at 35) blogging is the first way I engaged with the web when I made my first blogspot site in 2005 or so. I think it’s more positive because a blog tends to be about what you do/like, rather than whatever is current to be hating on (though there are certainly blogs that do that). I don’t think me blogging is going to fix anything, but I think if everyone was mostly bogging and doing a lot less…whatever all the rest of the web is, it would be a much better place.

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📚Finished Reading: What Art Does: An unfinished theory, Brian Eno & Bette A.

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I intended to start this while I ate lunch and read the whole thing. Some nice inspiration for the start of the semester.

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@mjkaul No way! That is absolutely the coolest.

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Back in the office this week.

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This piece really gets out of the gate. Manuel Ponce, Sonatina Meridional.

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@flotisserie I’m really glad to see this! Some years I teach a tech class and one of the first things we do is create our own websites to post the work we do all semester (students think I’m asking them to hack into NASA when we do this).

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I think it does help them own their work more, and some of them leave with the beginnings of their professional website in place.

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The Heap of Trash You See When You Die: isaacgreene.com

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Father Vaillant sniffed, “I noticed that scholars always manage to dig out something belittling,” he complained.

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Some close-up proboscis action from the front garden.

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Ordinary Saints

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I recently stumbled on this lovely “coffee table website.” Paintings by Bruce Herman with poems by Malcolm Guite and music by J.A.C. Redford. I’ve only really looked at the paintings and poems, but it’s a nice bit of the Internet.

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📚Finished Reading: Four Seasons in Rome, Anthony Doerr

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Lovely little memoir of a year spent on a writing fellowship in Rome with his wife and infant twins (spoiler: he didn’t get much writing done). There isn’t very much literature about having twins (too tired to write); lots of solidarity here.

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Twelve years. We had the nicest weekend together (child free, thanks to my in-laws) just doing things we enjoy at home and around town.

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The best part of finishing a big project: cleaning the shop.

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Finally installed. Now that I see it I think, as I suspected, it needs painted. It’s just a little too brown, and part of the point of shelves here (besides holding a ton of books) was to diminish the amount of river rock showing. I like the river rock, but it’s kind of a lot.

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📚Finished Reading: As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner.

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Phew, short book with a huge punch. So much more accessible than the other Faulkner I’ve read, and perhaps the only book I know with a woodworking project as a central plot point.

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📚Finished Reading: The Hum of the World, Lawrence Kramer.

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Fascinating book, pulled on many threads at once.

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This afternoon I did what I normally do when despair raises its head: sat down with Bach’s D minor partita and played all the way through.

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This passage from the chaconne, the first bit of D major after 30 minutes of D minor, is what hope sounds like. What a gift.

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Datacenters come to Town: isaacgreene.com

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