…is that which reaches the soul and engulfs the spirit as a beautiful sound.
music lives within our heart
There’s currently not a whole lot of music on this webpage unless you’re like me and hear it all the time. A bipolar brain is a busy place. There’s music in the air between my ears.
Marshall Mallows
My interests change with the proverbial wind. I started guitar when I was ten and stopped in my early thirties. A forty year hiatus has left me with four fretful fingers and some meandering marshmallows with touchy-feely nerve endings for fingertips. I’ve developed arthritis in my chord hand, which is also fretful, but I can still play. So my “sweet little imagination” keeps me in tow.
“Nothing is easy”, so I’ve done an awful lot of that. I practice a little, I just need to develop a guitar “AllSpark”… a fun focused and determined spirit like in my youth and like what’s in Ed’s Art Net.
“Old age ain’t no place for sissies.”, Bette Davis
Dreams don’t materialize out of thin air. They materialize out of hard work.
When I was young, I had fun and worked hard at guitar and was able to delight my friends while annoying the crotchety old neighbors… A young “rebel without a cause”… Now I’m a crotchety old “rebel with a pause”.
Background music
Late in my career, my employer requested that I give them a retirement date so they could train a replacement. So I did. In 2016… I told them I would retire at the end of 2019. It wound up being January 3, 2020, just in time for the pandemic.
For years, I planned to rekindle my art and music hobbies at retirement. Well, plans are wasted if we don’t follow through. My “sweet little imagination” had me painting away and making gobs of guitar recordings once I retired. I started preparations years in advance, purchasing a surplus professional art table and guitar gear that I had only dreamed about as a teenager.
At 2020 retirement, I started out buffing up my art and music skills. This went on for a few months but I wasn’t feeling the joy that I had in my earlier life. Especially not for the guitar. So I added this music page to my website hoping to put a little friendly pressure on myself to get my guitar playing in gear. (Yep, there’s a pun there.) 🥴
I believe we’re supposed to do what we love, not what we once loved.
Peddle Boogie & Jam
Gear Gallery
Below is my PB&J instrument collection. It’s beautiful work by skilled craftsmen. Some of it is quite old. None of it made me a skilled musician. Focused determination did that.
“Rocky” – Marshall MG15GR practice amp
Music dedicated to Ash and KT
Susan’s songs of life
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