My wife said it was her favorite part of Christmas! It was good to tickle the ivories even though I'm presently 76 and my fingers hurt a little to do this at this age. But, it was good for me to play the piano because I haven't for awhile. I still have one friend and his girlfriend that are still professional musicians still and he is 73 and she is in her mid 50s. They played a Christmas Eve Concert last night they were telling me and then they were going to return to Mt. Shasta to go Cross Country Skiing up on Mt. Shasta because they finally plowed the road up to Bunny Flat where the best skiing of that kind usually is this time of year.
Playing the piano was good for me to feel something that goes back since I was 8 years old and I started taking piano lessons from age 8 to 16 years old. I played in recitals once a year because that was traditional but I refused to play the yearly recitals after age 12. However, that was also about the same time I started playing the Concert Grand Piano at our church and sometimes our Baldwin Organ too. I played in church both in Los Angeles and in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the private church school from the time I was 12 years old until I was 21 years old. So, music was something I seriously considered in going professional. What decided me against this was I didn't like playing music for drunk people who were smoking or stoned. So, I gave up the idea then but I continued to write songs through my 30s until my father died when I found I couldn't deal with my emotions and so I mostly stopped playing music and singing then. I realized today that I died in some ways when my father died and then I started writing more around that time too so I sort of replaced playing music and singing and writing music to writing to deal with the pain of loss in my life of losing my father in 1985. However, my mother lived until age 90 in 2008 so she was around a long time. However, I found I couldn't replace my father in her life or in mine. However, the most important thing when parents die I have found is that the best of them lives on in their children and grandchildren so in this way your parents become immortal through you and your children.
Merry Christmas!
By God's Grace
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