It was nothing if not a hectic summer. We moved from Toronto to Virginia, bought a cute old house in the Hudson Valley, and unpacked our U-Haul. Then we left for a month-long trip to Ukraine, where Lesia learned to run, and did so through various sites in Kyiv, Lviv and numerous Hutsul villages. We returned in early August to begin the process of settling in, and then spent Labor Day weekend in Hunter, where Zozulka had a performance at the Grazhda Music & Arts Center of Greene County, which was all kinds of wonderful. Yesterday, I led my first two classes at Bard College (“Introduction to Ethnomusicology” and “Musical Exoticisms”). Both courses are way past their enrollment limits, which may bode well for the future of ethnomusicology on this campus. Following the first day of classes, and missing my little family, we drove over to Woodstock’s Big Deep for a beautiful late summer, early evening swim. 

And now, back to class prep.