Lessons

I made a decision to take the summer off and recover from the trauma of teaching way too much the past few years. I decided to learn to play the violin, or progress from sounding like killing a cat when playing, then also up my mandolin game. About half way into the summer, I decided to take my first music lessons in decades. I hooked up with the wonderful Dave Edmundson, who has spent much of his life playing traditional string music.Dave is a fine man, excellent teacher and musician. He has been most gracious and patient in guiding me along this stage of musical growth.

Then a friend called and said he had a gig working as a trainer and support person at a large college-level school on the local military base. So far this has had the potential of being worthy employment with fair wages and benefits, albeit not great. I am learning lessons based upon that decision, too.