Simple life as senior, well, if running on 8 tracks is simple, so YES :)

As regular readers of this blog will know, I have retired and now I am so called profesor Emeritus which means that I go up north to the Arctic University in Tromsø and teach a little bit and enjoy the city of Tromsø, the surroundings and my colleagues and friends etc., a bit like being grandfather, doing a little bit of work, but most of the time I just enjoy life and go to places you know so well.
That is my first track, my documentation studies track, a bit mixed with my 2nd track, friends and family. Since our grandsons live in Norway, we can visit them on our way to Tromsø and enjoy going out in the forests around Oslo and that leads to the 3rd track hiking / walking, which I happily enjoy, it is cheap if you just walk out of your door and certainly healthy too! and I hike of course in my most worn out overalls that leads to my 4th track overalls, which I love, especially for their special kind of texture when they get older, perhaps a reasonable interest for an old guy !:) but it is also some kind of interest in how things evolve and grow and dissolve like in nature and that leads to my 5th track, gardening, both keeping up with all plants growing up but also a special interest for special plants like the Royal Light plants, Kings Light or in Latin, Verbascum, of which I have at least 3 sorts, and all this is a part of a history, of a history of my life which leads to my 6th track, historical research, where I really feel at home! I’m historian by profession and I have loved doing historical research since I was a kid, running on archives as a teenager and doing genealogy as a teenager!! yes, a true nerd from the beginning! and now I’m back and going to be Visiting researcher at the National Archives in Denmark, doing research about my ancestor Jens Harpøth, a creative Merchant from 1758, who did a lot of inventions, tried to fly, did social work and business, who apparently also was a bit of an artist in this business letter above a drawing of a very noble man (he was very often satirical!) and I have also have had an artistic interest, which leads to my 7th track, opera, since I have written an opera about the merchant, which has not yet been finished, but hopefully will be premiered at some point ! but at least the first act was performed at Berkeley in 2006 at a workshop and since then I have worked with musicians and singers and still do planning a concert, Vivaldi “the Four Seasons” in a swimming Hall,
unusually stage and that leads to my 8th and last track, distributed performance, which actually started at the workshop in Berkeley, discussing how can you play together if you use technology, the internet and after that I wrote to my colleague at Stanford Chris Chafe and since then I have been working on this format, having Porgy standing in Stockholm and Bess in Stanford, singing I love you Porgy across continents! bringing the world together and next week I’m going to make a course for Danish music schools on how to play together between cities and the whole world ! so I better stop now ! have a nice weekend