Age is never a factor. Many say I don't look mine (some days LOL). In fact, I'm often complimented on how "young" I must be, but I know the truth and the truth for me is that age brings time bombs with it.
I have none... Time that is. My life is so jam packed with details, events, obligations, needs and desires... worst of all, there are days I understand completely why men go a little crazy during that season we call "mid-life". On those days I want to do it all "yesterday" today and I don't want it to end.
Okay. So I'm showing another side of me. I can talk in circles. I can write mountains. Writing is my 'love'. But singing is up there alongside, because when a person sings what they've written, giving away a little secret part of themselves, openly sharing the fragmented particles of thought, articulating them so they can be understood, setting them to music, lulling an audience with the sound of a voice... well... I don't have to tell you all but... we're talking 'magic'.
Music IS a universal language, meaning: the fact that I sing publicly in Italian (mostly~ except for at Church) doesn't stop anyone from listening. At work, when my boss (who is my husband) puts in a CD or DVD of my work, everyone stops to asks me why I'm 'doing hair' (a hairstylist by day remember).
But my doing hair is just as creatively interesting as any other part of my life. I meet the most amazing people at work. I learn, share and invent so much of what matters to me there, including my music.
My motto is simple: God made us to ENJOY ALL of life. Life is meant to be an adventure, but it can't be unless we open up to it.
I appreciate this site because I'm getting one more opportunity to do just that with the lessons I'm following here. So far, I've been working on GF1 &2. I want to learn it all, from the bottom up. I'm enjoying everything that I'm absorbing except the callouses on my fingers and the B maj.Chord. (LOL)
I can't wait to begin feeling fluid enough with my fingers that I can start playing songs again. I have an old Jim Croce Songbook with his greatest hits in it. They were very influential bases for me when I created my own songs using the guitar (back in the day). Right now, my fingers aren't moving fast enough to play them properly... but it will come.
Am I old?
You've all made me feel 21 again!
Thanks so very much for the warm WELCOMES!!!
:);)