This is quite a productive time for me -- I've already released several new pieces. I plan to reach a total of 20 or so before issuing a new album. But I already know that its title will be "Shards," and that this very piece will be the last track on that album. It's a little piece for piano and Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird. The last of its species.
The picture I have chosen is the one I posted yesterday. It shows a shrew that I encountered at the lake of Rotselaar, Belgium. Those were the days of the great, unexpected flood of July 2021.
It was a peculiar and in some ways disconcerting time; nature seemed to have taken repossession of so many places, such as in fact the Rotselaar lakes. Against a desolate backdrop, there I met that little shrew. No need to taming it -- like us, he seemed rather surprised and confused. Perhaps he was looking for his burrow, I don't know. I wonder how the last man on earth will feel. Maybe s/he will sing one last song, who knows.