It's pretty self-absorbed of Hedy West to write about Hedy West. Here goes!

I sometimes do perform; but I don't champ wildly at the bit to dash about on the road with those good instruments; even though it's fun to sing, and to see people. The road was a delight for the first 10 years, 40 years ago?

My daughter Talitha is 19 and is a senior at the Univ of Penn, studying classics (attic Greek) her father's first field, and playing violin and viola wonderfully, Brahms, Bach, Barber, Bartok - those beautiful "B's" - along with some other composers who strayed farther in the alphabet. Her sleek adult feathers have grown in, and my frayed ones are settling back into putting in orderly and accessible form the documents of my family's music, lives and community that I gathered from 1954 to 1980, the year my grandmother died and my daughter was born.

I also compete with the groundhogs to cultivate my garden. And I play Sandy's old guitar, and my old banjos & piano.

Zip! went the time, Hedy