@ablerism I’ve already reached 3 coffees no lunch.
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\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/93996/2026/screenshot-2026-11-02-at-10.08.29am.png\")
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\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/93996/2026/6f179fa8-1201-4027-bf23-e690d021990c-m.jpg\")
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\nChuffed to have a new arrangement coming out with Guitar Chamber Music Press.
\nI know all of you secretly play in guitar duos, so I expect big sales. Maybe enough to buy myself a coffee.
\n![](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/93996/2026/screenshot-2026-10-30-at-12.46.10pm.png\")
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/100171194","date_published":"2026-10-30T16:35:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-30 16:35","date_timestamp":1793378113,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"100080865","content_html":"How to Change the Past: isaacgreene.com
","summary":"","url":"https://www.isaacgreene.com/2026/10/29/how-to-change-the-past.html","date_published":"2026-10-29T11:25:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-29 11:25","date_timestamp":1793273129,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"100080833","content_html":"📚Finished reading: _Seamus Heaney: Selected Poems, 1965-1975. _
\nSome really good ones here. The best ones you can about smell.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/93996/2026/d47383368a-m.jpg\")
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/100042929","date_published":"2026-10-28T19:28:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-28 19:28","date_timestamp":1793215730,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99984254","content_html":"@JimRain Every piano tuner I’ve met (quite a few, honestly) had been a real character. I might have to listen to this.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/99932641","date_published":"2026-10-27T00:08:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-27 00:08","date_timestamp":1793059721,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99904384","content_html":"@dwalbert I’ll pass that along. I’ve only thrown away one of my votes so far.
\nAnd yes, I have full confidence we are trading one frustrating system we’ve made work for another frustrating system that we don’t know how to use. Progress!
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\nAnyway, I thought of the best name that will never get chosen: AmanuenSIS.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.isaacgreene.com/2026/10/23/some-of-you-cough-cough.html","date_published":"2026-10-23T14:35:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-23 14:35","date_timestamp":1792766106,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99743995","content_html":"@jabel I’ll be subscribing! Just as soon as I can find a postage stamp…
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/99743995","date_published":"2026-10-23T13:28:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-23 13:28","date_timestamp":1792762128,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99743218","content_html":"@canneddragons Just yesterday I came across the site of another classical guitarist with deeply overlapping interests to mine with an active blog. But the AI photos in every post, and every header, just really did me in.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/99709523","date_published":"2026-10-22T22:41:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-22 22:41","date_timestamp":1792708905,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99678248","content_html":"@madaga Love this.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/99678248","date_published":"2026-10-22T12:43:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-22 12:43","date_timestamp":1792673039,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99614378","content_html":"Yesterday I got my South Carolina sample ballot and started doing some reading about the candidates. This was a very depressing exercise.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.isaacgreene.com/2026/10/21/yesterday-i-got-my-south.html","date_published":"2026-10-21T13:01:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-21 13:01","date_timestamp":1792587686,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99578282","content_html":"@Cliff538 @robertbreen this jogged my memory that Obama actually interviewed Robinson at one point! A rare appearance for her, but I guess when Obama asks you say yes.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/99562992","date_published":"2026-10-20T16:38:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-20 16:38","date_timestamp":1792514299,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99519956","content_html":"@dwalbert Print on demand has really ruined publishing. Lots of sheet music comes to me looking like it was xeroxed by an intern and stuffed in the envelope with some staples along for the ride.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/99519956","date_published":"2026-10-19T23:43:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-19 23:43","date_timestamp":1792453407,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99467422","content_html":"B has learned to wink. We are all obsessed.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/93996/2026/6da1ff19-3ebb-4bbf-aaa6-53da30c2e929-m.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.isaacgreene.com/2026/10/18/b-has-learned-to-wink.html","date_published":"2026-10-18T23:51:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-18 23:51","date_timestamp":1792367515,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99420196","content_html":"Hilarious follow up: my wife didn’t recognize Pandolfi (I wouldn’t have either, we were introduced). While I was off somewhere they got chatting and she asked “Do you play an instrument?” He very humbly said, “I play a little piano,” and left it at that.
\nThe man has sold 3.5 million records.
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\nEmile Pandolfi sat about 3 feet from me. We had a lovely chat afterward.
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\nDaunting because it’s big, but it shouldn’t be too complicated.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/99090997","date_published":"2026-10-12T12:57:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-12 12:57","date_timestamp":1791809829,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99065338","content_html":"Needing it this evening, we had to search the house for a tube of desitin. As sure a sign as any so far that a certain phase of parenting has passed.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene/99036772","date_published":"2026-10-11T10:23:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-11 10:23","date_timestamp":1791714222,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"98996127","content_html":"My friend who sings in the Phoenix Chorale pointed me to their wonderful new album of American music. They sound fantastic. Some personal favorites and lots new to me, including a few by shaker composer Hannah Cohoon.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/93996/2026/a1125b4e-ddf7-45d8-af97-52d1efa6d1fb-m.jpg\")
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\nSteinbeck’s ability as a stylist are really on display here. Other than a few interesting encounters not much happens in this book. It is described so beautifully, though, you just want to keep reading.
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The men were men then, I suppose. So many delightful historic tidbits in this article on archery.
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\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.isaacgreene.com/2026/10/06/ive-been-playing-this-piece.html","date_published":"2026-10-06T20:04:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-06 20:04","date_timestamp":1791317064,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98748277","content_html":"📚Finished Reading: The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion.
\nI had no idea what I was getting into, I’ve just been meaning to read a Didion book for a long time and that’s one I had on a shelf. A beautiful and tragic piece of writing.
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\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://www.isaacgreene.com/2026/09/27/my-son-riding-his-bike.html","date_published":"2026-09-28T01:57:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Isaac Greene","url":"http://www.isaacgreene.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F50%2F1004038.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"isaacgreene"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-28 01:57","date_timestamp":1790560666,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}