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l.j.lum@hotmail.com's avatar

I understand it being like meditation for you. Growing up we had a cottage and in front of ours was the main fire pit. Our neighbours, the Williams family, had five children who all played the guitar and the oldest also played the banjo. That is one of my greatest memories from those days. Give me a fire and acoustic music and I am at complete peace.

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Daphne Berryhill's avatar

LOVED reading this! I pictured scenes from Deutschland 83 with the part about your family’s trip to the USSR. What an experience! You got your first guitar while also learning that people on the other side “were people just like us.” We tell our kids that, but seeing it is always better.

Also, love your mom’s outlook: “hell yeah, sounds weird, let’s do it.”

And hell yeah to enjoying an instrument you’ll never be great at playing!

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