Cedar City, on Sunday, 13 October 2019; the Passing of an Icon; and a Nobel Prize for Utah?

Important Message:

I’ll be speaking this coming Sunday, 13 October 2019, in Cedar City, Utah.  So I’m extending an invitation or, depending upon your point of view, giving a timely warning in case anybody out there expects be in the vicinity on the evening:

The fireside will be at 7 PM on Sunday evening at the South Mountain Ward.  That building is at 800 South Laurie Lane (800 South and Westview Rd).  Although this will be a Cedar City Utah West Stake fireside, it won’t occur at the stake center (which, I’m told, was previously scheduled for something else).

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I ran across this Church video for the first time today, and I really like it.  It features the voice of the late Elder L. Tom Perry of the Council of the Twelve Apostles.  It was good to hear him again.  My wife and I got to know him somewhat, and really, really liked him.  Moreover, the message of this video is a very good one:

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/new-mormon-message-focuses-on-the-ten-commandments

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From the invaluable Jeff Lindsay:

“Nathan Arp on an Apparent Egyptian Wordplay on the Name of Moses”

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“Nine Nobel Prize Predictions for 2019: These significant advancements could win the Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry.”

The physiology or medicine prize will be announced on Monday, 7 October 2019.  As I write, the time of the announcement is slightly less than fourteen hours away.  One of the suggestions made in the article above involves the medical school at the University of Utah.  We shall see!  It would be great news for the state.

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Finally:  I learned today, to my very great sorrow, of the death of one of my youthful musical icons.  I had lost track of him for many years, I’m afraid, so he was more or less still frozen in my mind at the age when I followed him most closely.  It’s difficult to believe that he was as old as he actually was:

“Legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker dies at 80”

“Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger among musicians paying tribute to Cream drummer Ginger Baker”

I saw him live only once, I think.  He was playing with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce in the short-lived supergroup Cream.  If I’m not mistaken, it was in Long Beach Arena, in southern California.  Of course, my real hero was Eric Clapton.  He’s the major reason that I was there.  But I still recall Ginger Baker’s spectacular and long drum solo at that concert.

One of the songs that they performed that night was “White Room”:

I still have the vinyl copy of the album, Disraeli Gears, that features “White Room” and that I bought a long, long time ago.

Even rock music idols, it seems, are mortal.