@shannonguerra on Substack
I’m sitting here wondering why the sign makes me want to do just that – 😜
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Here are my latest painted sketches –
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Brian texted me yesterday afternoon, asking me to unlock my door. When I did, he came in with a guitar! Somehow he decided that I had shown enough determination and had tried to fight with the fact that the guitar was large for me and the neck was so wide I was really having to work to get my fingers into position on the frets that he had chosen wrong before and had brought me a replacement!
It’s smaller, the neck is narrower, it FEELS better when I hold it. I was able to show him that I could move from one chord to another – not with grace – but showed I had been working hard to re-memorize finger positions and with the smaller neck, I was indeed, able to ‘keep my flesh off the box, dahlin” and make a pretty clear sound. To say I’m thrilled is such an understatement.
We will either sell or give away the other guitar, and I’ll start trying to actually PLAY something today!!!! There is still a LOT of work to do so I know what I’m doing again, and the sick frog voice is alive and well, but I will be grinning when I’m trying to work on an actual song today. 🎸😜
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When we were sharing breakfast, I mentioned that the next completely frivolous thing I would like to look for was a Thai broom. I’ve done a post where I showed you some of the wonderful brooms they make (and USE!) here. He got up, went to a closet, and pulled out this broom –
I have it hanging on my wall next to my little kitchen now, considering it a work of art. The workmanship is amazing. Brian says it was made by the ‘mountain people’ above Chiang Mai.
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Small Town Girl – @donna855789 – on Substack