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  • ALS & Me (and Us)
  • Some Reflections
  • My Rants and Diatribes
    • My rants and diatribes
  • Some of My Writings
    • The Feeder
    • The Sixteenth Mile
    • The Parent
    • The Still Drum
    • Take the Lake
    • Not Tomorrow Nor Today
    • You Cry My Friend
    • The Prudes
    • Sniffy McNifty
    • My Boys
    • The Neighborhood Clown
    • Diana
    • Put Him In It
    • The Bidet
    • Don't Cry
    • Boston Marathon - 1990
    • A Mother's Final Memory
    • Harry Had It Right
    • Mory the Mouse
    • 911 Song
  • Some Photos
    • Prudes Plus a Few
    • Fam Photos
  • video - favorite clips
    • make em laugh
    • HC-Live 1978-Full Concert
    • HC-A Better Place to Be
    • HC-Mr. Tanner
    • HC-Cats in the Cradle
    • HC-Taxi
    • HC-W.O.L.D.
    • Mr. Tanner - The Real Guy
    • HC-Mail Order Annie
    • HC-Springsteen's Tribute
    • Addison Agen-Both Sides
    • Foster Brooks - Pilot
    • Foster Brooks Surgeon
    • Timberlake /Stapleton
    • Billy Joel-Saigon
    • Billy Joel -So it goes
    • Harry Chapin
  • Shameless personal videos
    • Sports clips of the boys
    • Truly Shameless videos
  • Worthy Causes
    • Caregivers Need Care
    • ALS Association
    • Team Quinn
    • annleigh's jewelry
  • E-mail Me

35Prospect.org

35Prospect.org35Prospect.org35Prospect.org
  • ALS & Me (and Us)
  • Some Reflections
  • My Rants and Diatribes
    • My rants and diatribes
  • Some of My Writings
    • The Feeder
    • The Sixteenth Mile
    • The Parent
    • The Still Drum
    • Take the Lake
    • Not Tomorrow Nor Today
    • You Cry My Friend
    • The Prudes
    • Sniffy McNifty
    • My Boys
    • The Neighborhood Clown
    • Diana
    • Put Him In It
    • The Bidet
    • Don't Cry
    • Boston Marathon - 1990
    • A Mother's Final Memory
    • Harry Had It Right
    • Mory the Mouse
    • 911 Song
  • Some Photos
    • Prudes Plus a Few
    • Fam Photos
  • video - favorite clips
    • make em laugh
    • HC-Live 1978-Full Concert
    • HC-A Better Place to Be
    • HC-Mr. Tanner
    • HC-Cats in the Cradle
    • HC-Taxi
    • HC-W.O.L.D.
    • Mr. Tanner - The Real Guy
    • HC-Mail Order Annie
    • HC-Springsteen's Tribute
    • Addison Agen-Both Sides
    • Foster Brooks - Pilot
    • Foster Brooks Surgeon
    • Timberlake /Stapleton
    • Billy Joel-Saigon
    • Billy Joel -So it goes
    • Harry Chapin
  • Shameless personal videos
    • Sports clips of the boys
    • Truly Shameless videos
  • Worthy Causes
    • Caregivers Need Care
    • ALS Association
    • Team Quinn
    • annleigh's jewelry
  • E-mail Me

Bought a piano from some friends who were moving back in 2003. None of us knew how to play. But I always wanted to learn and I finally committed to it in 2018. As with guitar, I didn't have patience to read music but instead just enjoyed learning chords and keys and doing my own thing. Unfortunately, I was only about 6 months into piano before my symptoms prevented me from going any further.

So not good!   But I enjoyed it trying.

My Mom bought my first guitar as a Christmas present when I was about 11 years old. Of course I had no idea how to play it. But in due time, my sister's friend, Jody, started to teach me certain easy songs that got my fingers moving. I started teaching myself more difficult chords over the years, started writing lyrics and thoroughly enjoyed my guitar until symptoms in 2019. I didn't read music and wasn't good, but it sure relaxed me and playing became a soothing bedtime routine for the boys in those early years. I rarely recorded myself but here is feeble attempt at a Pink Floyd song.

The last song I wrote. I was feeling melancholy about the boys moving out and was reminded of Harry Chapin's the Cat's in the Cradle, a sad song about the natural progression of life between a father and sons. I'm not crazy about the chords in this one but the lyrics are meaningful to me. It was hard to get through it without choking up.

I decided one mid-winter day to learn how to make an i-movie  with my iPad. This is total nonsensical but kept me out of other mischief for about an hour.

 More i-movie fun on a snowy day when the office was closed. Children must play...

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