A dream - In a manufacturing plant in a valley, which derived its power from subterranean volcanic heat, I mischievously threw a shovelful of snow down in the opening...
Art passes his examination and is sworn in (today) into the Airforce. He will leave for San Antonio the night of June 1.
Student recital at the H.S. Aud.– David, the last performer, played Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2 from memory – We were all so proud of him and so was everyone else, happy over his achievements – “Dog-gone it,” he said afterwards, “I made one mistake”!
A dream – of our moving into a flat in a poor neighborhood in Buffalo, which was on a third floor of an old ramshackle house...
A dream last night: I was wandering thru an unfamiliar territory. I came to the outskirts of a village, obscure in the sort of twilight that always hovers in my dreams...
Sometimes I almost feel that I would trade some of the pleasures of maturity, to experience that just once again.
On one day, Cathie [Burchfield's daughter Catherine] showed us the work she had been doing lately—She has made a big advance over work we had previously seen—
I dreamt quite a lot last night. Most of it is vague, but one thing remains – someone said to me “you ought to go back to those old interpretations of nature moods again”...
I managed one afternoon (I think the 17th ) to make the changes on the Bluebird picture (Song of the Bluebird) –
Warm & clear—wonderful weather. In studio studying the “Lavender & Old Lace”—Played the Dvorak Quintet & “American” Quintet...