Bernie Harberts, of whom I have written here before
https://self-portraitinthepresentseajournal.blogspot.com/2025/07/hilton-head-island-swan-song.html
may have been the only person on this planet, other than myself, who knew that last Friday was the 50th anniversary of my first rounding of Cape Horn without my telling him.
Bernie has started a new site, TravelGrit, in addition to his long running, RiverEarth.
I have both on the list of sites I check each afternoon and look forward to his future entries.
At present there is some Webb Chiles at TavelGrit should you not already have had more than enough, including a podcast and link to a YouTube video of an interview Bernie did with me a few months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3k863u3frc&t=240s
I wish Bernie success with his new site, however he defines success, and joy with his new boat, MYSTIC.
Carol was away last week visiting friends and in her absence I watched films that I did not think she would want to see.
One was J.S. BACH: THE MUSIC, THE LIFE, THE LEGEND at Amazon Prime. This was not a documentary, but a biopic.
I have read about Bach, but learned some things from the film I did not know or perhaps had forgotten, so after watching it I went to Wikipedia to see if the film was accurate. It was, except that the actors who portray the great composer as various stages of his life are all considerably more handsome than he. Nevertheless he was married twice and fathered twenty children, most of whom died before adulthood. Seven with his first wife who died of a sudden illness when he was traveling elsewhere in Germany. Thirteen by his second wife. I pause to consider that. Both women must have been almost continuously pregnant for years, one for more than a decade.
Bach died at age 65 in 1750 of complications of cataract surgery and I quote from Wikipedia: He was originally buried at Old St John's Cemetery in Leipzig, where his grave went unmarked for nearly 150 years.
Incredible.
Another was DOWNFALL: THE CASE AGAINST BOEING on Netflix. This is a documentary showing what happened, including two airplane crashes and the deaths of several hundred people, after a merger brought in new executives and a corporate culture that valued increasing the stock price above all else including safety.
By Po Chü-i 772-846.
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