Hi Everyone!
I'm sitting here in Laura Orshaw's living room listening to Sweetwater practice. I hate their bass player. But only because he's classically trained and one of the best bass players I've ever heard, including Mark Schatz. I could listen to him for HOURS!!! I'll never be that good, only because I'm too lazy to practice as much as I should (I can't believe I'm saying this in front of my teachers!)
It is so good to hear my Beloved play music with a group - he practices by himself hours and hours and hours almost every day. (Well, since I've been home, he's had quite a honey-do list, so that cuts into his music time.) And such musicians! Besides the super bass player that I love/hate, there's Laura, who plays fiddle and sings, Adam on the mando, Cory on guitar, and Ian on banjo. And they're all pretty fantastic. I hate them all. (Not) You can check them out on MySpace (Sweetwater Bluegrass) and I think they have a couple of videos on YouTube as well.
I'm not going back to school this semester. I am bummed, because I LOVE school and will miss all my friends there, and I am happy because my Beloved and I get to spend tons of time together - for the first time in almost 29 years, we will be living by ourselves! We actually really enjoy each other's company, so we are looking forward to the next few months.
One thing that I learned about myself these past 2 semesters being in Texas without my hubby - I LOVE him so much! Well, it's not so much something that I learned; more like something that was confirmed. And he realized the same thing about me. I know it sounds kind of ominous that we had forgotten how much we love each other, but you have to remember, we've been married since I was 15 years old. And that whole time, we've been raising a family and then providing pastoral care to a lot of people and it all took its toll on us. Wrongly, most of those years were spent putting our relationship LAST, and the last 2 years the cracks were just getting wider.
SO - these next 8 months, our only concern is going to be US. We're reconnecting as a couple, we're going to spend more time with our kids and our extended family and our good old friends. And we're going to work real hard on getting our house sold, so we can go back to Texas together.
So be warned, Texas people, I'm coming back in August, and I'm bringing Trouble with me:-)
Meanwhile - music teachers pay attention - Trouble (better known as my Beloved) will not let me be a musical slacker. For some odd reason, he thinks I should practice every day, and he frequently sits by and makes sure I do it! Darn his gnarly hide! Hopefully, though, I will know how to apply a lot of the theory I learned last semester by the time I return to school. John, AKA Trouble, AKA my Beloved, is a crack theorist and oftens speaks in musical babble. But he's also good at patiently explaining and showing me exactly what he's babbling about. So I don't know, Kirk!, I may keep up with you after all.
Till Next Time,
The Sparrow
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