Chris Young 🇰🇪 @XopherY@octodon.social

Happy Easter! I got caught riding my #motorcycle in the wild! #bunny #sanfrancisco #california #bayarea

another nice thing about spending all my time on mastodon, following politics sensitive folks who use CWs if they talk about it is that whenever I do go back to birdsite or check the news generally, I'm actually *upset* by it again.

For a while after the US election and Inauguration I couldn't handle the news much, and after awhile it sort of dulled because I was so inundated with it.

Having a safe harbor here, I actually feel outraged again when I read the news

LAZY SUNDAY

dog had a big weekend

@XopherY One of the first pieces I ever played after getting involved with youth orchestras! We formed a little scratch chamber orchestra and took it to a few venues in England and France. I remember the conductor's passion for it so vividly. He said it was the piece that, upon hearing it for the first time, confirmed for him he was going to dedicate his life to music. That, and the hilarity over the disastrous results of my then clarinet teacher having to fill in for the pianist one evening...

So happy to have decided to stop being a Lurker... Chatting with a stranger ( @XopherY ) has, tonight, got me recalling some of the best memories from childhood. #AaronCopland #AppalachianSpring #Orchestra

HEADED TO PARIS, JUST BOARDED THE PLANE. see y'all soon 💖

Hello from Venezuela

Hello! I'd like to make some friends! I am so very tired right now, having spent the day walking around town, feeding squirrels & dodging newly laid tarmac paths. Sleep is imminent! But I'd still like to hear from nice people. I've tended only to 'lurk' elsewhere so it's a bit of a test of myself here... I think I need hashtags, yes? Um... Stuff I like includes: #arts #cinema #education... I play the #clarinet & #sax + a bit of #piano. I used to be really good at #drawing but now I'm not. You?

Posts about the arrival of spring are really boosting my mood. Here is my own contribution. An absolute joy! #SacreduPrintemps #RiteofSpring #Stravinsky https://youtu.be/3vwq1AyYGzo

As the man who created me once said, Hello World

@XopherY Ah, we've all got a duke... Ours is said to have lost the family fortune and castle by getting extremely drunk on the morning of his wedding, then running off with his wife-to-be's sister! Or something... Ha!