i am happy.
john bought me a guitar on the sly, and i will learn to play well by at least the age of ninety. i have toyed with the idea of playing in the past, but the closest i came was my four year flirtation with electric bass guitar, an idea which my brother pete presented as the first step in our glamorous life as The Johnson Family Band. i came to my senses eventually and gave the guitar to my brother joel, who, in his turn, will someday come to his senses. i need an instrument that i can sing with, and victor wooten i will never be.
the other magnificent gift john gave me was the complete Bone series by jeff smith, all bound in one big, beautiful volume. i hadn't read the last two trade paperbacks that he released, and now i'm reading the entire story from beginning to end. what bliss!
oh, and i've lost the usb cable needed to transfer pictures to this page. someday i will find it, and post a picture of Millie as Ringmaster and one of Abigail Wearing Her New Glasses.
until then, listen to these overdue songs by alasdair roberts. it's a disservice to the songs to post them with scratchy, muffled fuzziness, but i said i would, so i will. you all can remedy the problem by visiting our stereophonic listening theater in depew. ("the whole house is singing" makes me happy every time i hear it and, for some reason, reminds me of my past and probable future--a house filled with children and bustle--with a twist of jo's boys.)
"Farewell Sorrow"
...so arm in arm, we'll run towards that pair,
and we as they, joined and double-threaded
and arms flung wide, we'll run towards that pair
and never fear that which once we dreaded...
"The Whole House is Singing"
The whole house is singing, the whole house is singing
The rafters are ringing, the timbers are thronged
The whole house is singing, the whole house is singing
I overhear them and this is their song:
"We are stronger when the moon grows in the skies
And the moon causes the tides to rise and rise
And the weed carried upon the drawing foam
We will gather to bedeck our happy home."
You're going at a great pace to learn to play guitar by 90!!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I have an old restrung-for-lefties guitar that I could give you if you thought it would get you playing faster. I never use it anymore, so I'd be happy to give it to someone who would. I'm hoping that moderating comments means you'll be reading this, because I don't really have any other way to contact you directly. Let me know and I'll bring it with next time...
I'd love it! As long as it's just collecting dust, then maybe having one that matches my lefty-fingers will get me playing by 80 or 85. (Five years ahead of schedule! Yeah!)
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