My Morning Post-Dream Ramblings
3 min readJan 29, 2024
~overtures, acts, arias, and recitatives
When the old man, a jazz-music composer named Thomas Balzac, wakes each morning he not only practices his “notes” from the night-before, plucking the taunt strings of an old Goya classical guitar, but also he takes in-between breaks in order to “compose” opinions on the latest events in the news, as depicted every morning on the C-Span program, “Washington Journal”…