Watching the unloading of 9 foot piano that costed $100,000. off the truck was interesting. The movers were definitely very careful with the process.
Ben created this platform for the piano and the red cover. Ben is a beautiful wood maker. He is also one of the gentlest souls to come across and sweet too.
It was so nice of Kuo Juan to loan her table linen for the reception. Jerry was awesome in showing up hours ahead with an iron to iron the table cloth.
David is in full force with his tool belt. He was fixing lights in the monastery. Yeah, don't mess with a guy standing at the door with his power tool belt and his Avatamsaka shirt on.
I found out about the event only three days before and so I did my usual thing and helped out with the offering not knowing who was coordinating, decorating etc... I found out the night before that no one was doing decorations for flowers and no one was doing the reception. So 11pm the night before the event I went to pick up maple leaves from the street in the dark hoping to use it for decoration. I love the colors of the fall, the warm gold, orange and red.
I am so grateful the Gwhyneth was generous enough to perform a salon concert again this year. She is a wonderful amazing pianist, must see her live and feel the experience of the music. It would just feel something was missing if she wasn't able to do a salon concert. It has been an annual thing now. Hopefully she will be able to do this next year. Tonight was all on Chopin.
