The call of the life that wasn’t: Russ Ellis and what could have been
Meditative Story
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What Was That Day at the Colosseum?
After a wonderful career at berkeley, i take an early retirement. In my sixties, i reinvent myself once more,. taking up stone carving, then bronze work, then metal. I'm a grandfather now, all new levels of joy. Maybe it's the joy that caused me, at the 85, to start recording original songs. My kids, both musicians, help me. You know how you get a song in your head? Sometimes i now get whole orchestrated movements. One afternoon. It is my great life. For so long, i thought this peregrination was my great penance. Now, replaying the footage yet other dry summer giving way to another smoky fall
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