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It’s been two years since I got a piano. It’s been glorious.<\/p>\n
I don’t think I play like someone that’s been practicing for two years – I wish I had progressed this year much more than I have. I’m probably now where I should have been a year ago. Oh well, I love it and I’m not stopping. And I’m not going to stop sharing – I want you, yes YOU, to get busy trying something you have always wanted to but have been afraid to. And I want you to OWN IT and not let anyone ridicule you into stopping doing something you might love.<\/p>\n
I also want to note that research shows that the brain benefits from learning to read and play music later in life<\/a> – after 50, after 60, whatever.<\/p>\n Here are my imperfect recitals for 2023 (I gave up trying to do them every month):<\/p>\n I also played guitar a lot this year, but did very little recording of such – I was mostly working up to being able to play well enough to sing with my sister<\/a> when I was in Kentucky in November. My last video for the year, as of this blog, is me playing and singing\u00a0Away in a Manger and Feliz Navidad<\/a>\u00a0on guitar.<\/p>\n Also recently,\u00a0I played a dulcimer<\/a>\u00a0for the first time ever!<\/p>\n\n
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\nThis Little Light of Mine.\u00a0September<\/a>.<\/li>\n
\nArranged for Easy Piano by Allan Small, butchered by Juana la Loca. then Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster. Summer<\/a>.<\/li>\n
\nThe Old Rugged Cross and Blessed Assurance. January<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n