 you've been there so you know
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Greetings!
So I wanted to send a special note to let you know how valuable your participation in our creative getaways has been, and to make sure that you know about the upcoming Jan 20-Feb 2 getaway. It's filling up but there is still some room ... and we can make more if we go over our limit (have to talk to the Marconi folks). |
i also wanted to mention ...
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... that aside from the pleasure I take in your continued participation, your experience with the AWA method helps new people grasp it more quickly, and makes everything run more smoothly, and I think everyone appreciates your presence.
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Last February, I was still pretty knocked out by my December cancer surgery and maybe by all rights shouldn't even have been trying to run a workshop, but we went ahead with it, everyone pitched in to make it work, and I especially want to thank Jan Rosamond and Brian Herrera for leading workshops in the afternoons while I met individually with participants.
And I've been pleased at the connections that have endured, am amazed at the work you are doing, and only wish I could do better at keeping up with all the projects and publications that you are engaged in.
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it's been a hell of a year ...
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... but I'm feeling pretty great, though still haven't caught up with everything and everyone I care about. Another reason it would be good to see you this January ... or in April, June or October (dates TBD).
Let me know so I can make arrangements. We can usually book more rooms if we give the staff at Marconi adequate notice. |
on another note ... i've been playing a lot of guitar
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Did you know that at one time I was a pretty serious guitar player? Then I kinda burned out on it. Well, it's more complicated than that. I explain some of it here.
While recovering from cancer surgery I found that playing music once again gave me solace -- as it did when as a teenager I first started playing. So now I play mainly just stuff, inventions, modal improvisations, blues improvisations, a few songs if I can remember them. But I like the way it sounds. That's the main thing. Others do, too (or they're just lying to be polite!).
Plus I'm planning to buy a good new guitar with the little money my father left me when he died last year. He would have liked that. He paid for my first lessons, and was a little disappointed when I went off the rails musically. So my playing is kind of for him, too.
So in the evenings at the getaway when we gather in McCargo Hall around the fireplace and read aloud from things we like, and play music and tell jokes like old timey folks who didn't have no TV or radio or Internet, well, I should have my new guitar. I'll have it in April too. And in July and October ...
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that's all. was just thinking of you
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