Glad to Be Here

This year, Thanksgiving falls on my birthday.  I am certainly thankful to still be here.  It is truly painful to realize how many people we have lost to this pandemic, here in the US and worldwide.  Here I gratefully celebrate my continuing existence by singing an aria from an early work by one of my heroes, George Frideric Handel.  The song urges us to, in effect, gather rosebuds while we may.

Handel’s Lascia la spina