Despite the grand and generous efforts of five kind souls, my efforts to raise $300.00 to purchase an acoustic guitar fell short by $200.00. Since I pledged to make it an all or nothing effort, I just got done refunding the folks who donated. Thank you, sincerely — you know who you are.
All is not lost, however, thanks to one of the nicest people I’ve met in the last year or so, writer and podcaster Jonathan Schiefer. Turns out Jon has a very nice Ovation acoustic / electric… and much to my astonishment, he’s offered to lend it to me for as long as I want. I took him up on the offer. Thanks, Jon!
So I have a guitar to play, and I have been, an hour or so a day for the last couple of days. I achieved blackened fingertips today — I haven’t seen those stains on my fingers for some time, or smelled that metallic mixture of skin, wire and sweat coming off my hands. Felt good.
It’s going to be a little while before I “go public” with playing — I am way, mega, totally out of practice. But it feels good to play again — music coming soon.
I know some awesome people. Yes I do.
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