What's on my mind today?

I'll tell you what's on my mind today.
•three small Palestinian boys
•a new reed knife
•a shuttle to the airport
•home
•Polonium 210
•reeds
•a violinist
•a new microphone
•Christmas presents to buy
•Love in the Time of Cholera
•Norton Anthology of Music, vol. 1
•running (or lack thereof)
•an irritated throat
•forests
•Italian
•Finland
•the Decemberists' new CD, should I buy it?
•the symphony, and how to introduce more people to it