Since my ski season got cut short for me this year, I have been pursuing new endeavors. Just finished trying to revive what little piano playing ability I developed when I retired in 1996. I took lessons for five years starting at age 61. I must report that my daughter Victoria age 11 was taking lessons from the same teacher. What took me a month to accomplish, she mastered in a week!
Here I am now, trying to recapture some of the ability I had so many years ago. Unfortunately, I discover that the process of refreshing is going very slowly. However, I can amuse myself with simple melodies, even if I can't fill in the base line. Maybe this is all a metaphor for my skiing abilities in my more senior years. Go for the simpler terrain and simply take pleasure in sweeping turns that can be considered as a simple ballet on snow.
I will continue to seek other old endeavors too. If you have been a reader of my blog over some time, you will notice the frequency of posting new blogs has increased in the last few weeks. Therefore I hope to come up for more tiny vignettes for my own entertainment, if not for my readers.
As we move into summer, I am looking forward to returning to the tennis court! That is not an old endeavor for me, because I have been playing tennis every year after I started banging a ball against the barn on a the farm I grew up. I was 12 when a neighbor gave me a beat up wooden racket. I guess an activity that you have engaged in for over 76 years qualifies as an old endeavor in a different way. Finally, my old endeavor of skiing started in my thirties. Hats off to those who were able to start much earlier!
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