“Knowing that they were discontinuing country schools in Sweden, I called up and asked, ‘Do you have an old schoolhouse for sale?’ ‘Yes,’ he replied, ‘in Tagarp.’ I told him that we would be there in a couple of hours. When we drove into the schoolyard for the first time, there was a rainbow over the house. ‘This is it, baby,’ said Don. We paid $4,000 for this heavenly house with eleven wood burning stoves, no insulation, but lots of space, schoolrooms, teachers’ apartments, and a good smell….We got our belongings out of storage, including the piano that we could not get out of the van on our own. So Don resorted to practicing and composing newly inspired work in the van for a while, much to the amusement of our new and very curious neighbors….In one classroom, we built a small theater, and the other one became my studio. In the teachers’ apartments, we painted all of the rooms different colors. Spring came–I made kitchen gardens and flowerbeds, all mixed for scent and beauty. Could I ever dream of how many meals I was to cook or overnight guest beds I’d make? No. With the air and atmosphere resounding with the most beautiful live music, it made me say yes to it all. Looking back, it all seems nuts. But it was beautiful. Live music at all hours. Musicians came from India, Africa, all over, and stayed to study with Don or in preparation for tours. It was an open house.” –Moki Cherry, Blank Forms 06: Organic Music Societies

so proud of this! my comic interpretation of mitski’s fireworks!