Michele

Calder's new piano teacher arrived at our place yesterday. When it was time for her to leave, I prompted him to bid farewell. "Bye bye, Michele," he said. I corrected: " Bye bye, Teacher Michele". He repeated after me hesitantly. I was rather puzzled because Calder usually wouldn't call teachers directly by name. Towards bedtime, I finally found out why. (See Entry 18 of his journal for the day.)