Another Newbee at 57

Starting this endeavor at 57. I know about five chords that I learned when I was a teenager. Had my Morton acoustic for a couple of years and have not really had any guidance with it other than the chords I learned when I was younger. Started with this site and Lisa and am working on "Ode to Joy"
I have discovered that my brain and my fingers are not attached! I feel like this is going to take forever.

Welcome Usry1...
You fingers and brain will get together rather quickly.. This is called muscle memory.. You should start with fundamentals 1 and 2. Nothing wrong with working on a song as you go, but if you are doing improper techniques it will be harder to correct.
Hope you have a good time here..

fundamintals 1 chapter 3 is were i am at everything was going pretty good untill we hit two strings and Ode to Joy. this is where i discovered this anomaly. Then i am wondering how i manage to feed myself all these years!!!

If you want to improve your finger-brain connection as fast as possible, I'd recommend taking 10 to 15 minutes each day (or more) doing finger independence exercises. The best one to me seems to be like this:

put all four fingers down on one string, one finger per fret. Keep all your fingers pressing down on the frets at all times, while you choose one finger to lift up. You might notice the first few times that when you try to lift up your ring finger, your middle finger might come up instead (or vice versa). This really shows you if you have a weak connection or finger Independence.

Then do the same thing but lift up two fingers while the other two remain pressing on the frets. Do every combination you can think of, then start to move certain fingers to the next string. Another thing that helps is permutations (remember back in math class?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVeyo352gpU

Good luck!