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Weather: Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance of showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Monday Night: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight. Much cooler with lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Notably: From the recesses of lesser known works that move you and enchant you, there’s always the odd piece by Charles-Valentin Alkan, a virtuoso pianist and composer, “once joined with those of Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and Brahms, as one of the greatest composers for the piano in the age that followed the death of Beethoven,” writes Keith Anderson in the liner notes to a 1990 recording for the Marco Polo/Naxos label. “At the same time he won praise as one of the most remarkable pianists of his time. Nevertheless much of his life was spent in eccentric obscurity, withdrawn from society.” He’s still in too much obscurity but those labels have been doing him honor. He actually first appeared on stage as a violinist in 1821 before he became a celebrated pianist–when he chose to perform. He would often withdraw from the stage, and tough his music at times makes you feel as if he is trying to bury his emotions in virtuosity (and how many of us don’t bluster our way through life for fear that our inner emptiness show?) he could at times sound as moving and heartbreaking as Schubert, making you pause and think: well, yes. There is, not just that, but still and more. He does that in his “La vision,” from his Esquisses, in the videos below, a couple of versions because I could not fine d alive concert version, but the live home video and the recorded Marco Polo versions will do. Bob, this one’s for you.
—P.T.
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
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… he resents being made to realize, this late, that the songs of his life were as moronic as the rock the brainless kids now feed on, or the Sixties and Seventies stuff that Nelson gobbled up—all of it designed for empty heads and overheated hormones, an ocean white with foam, and listening to it now is like trying to eat a double banana split the way he used to. It’s all disposable, cooked up to turn a quick profit. They lead us down the garden path, the music manufacturers, then turn around and lead the next generation down with a slightly different flavor of glop.
–From John Updike’s Rabbit at Rest (1990).
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