it's really a pretty awesome thing to watch. surprising, you know? that he can just pick up a guitar and play "wish you were here" or, my request, ac/dc's "you shook me (all night long)". really, really awesome.
i would've gotten more pictures, but i'm trying to be respectful of his amish-like hatred of photographs. at least, i'm trying to break him in slowly... :D
i wanted to take guitar lessons years ago. i've got lots of things i would like to do but say, "oh, but i'm so old now." learning guitar, learning to ride horses, getting a fucking degree. and, actually, i may be too old on that first one - i think music is like learning a second language; you may reach an age where some of the required synapses just can't fire... but hey, i guess i could try. and it's definitely on the "if i ever have a kid" list. it'll get baby sign language, spanish from birth, swimming from toddlerhood, and music lessons as soon as it can sit still.
also, may i say that i love a laptop and a stolen wireless internet connection like nobody's business? i'm sitting on my front steps, drinking a sol mate, enjoying the fresh air and the setting sun while mamacat 2 hunts lizards in the bushes. it's really nice. :)
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
