Just a short one today as I have to head into the city to coach for a few hours. Then I’ll be done until after Christmas.
I got a bunch of these trees for next-to-nothing at Michael’s the other day. So I added them to the McCoy mix on top of my music cabinet. That’s the only bit of Christmas (besides the decorations in the dollhouse) in the den.
A crazy weather day yesterday: heavy rain for 24 hours, flooding (not here, thank goodness), fog and mist, and a high of 60 degrees. On Winter Solstice. Today it’s windy and colder, as it usually is when a front leaves the area.
Back story: This is a gorgeous all-mahogany Martin guitar that Don had for many years. During a tough time for us financially, Don sold it to an old friend who is a musician out in Los Angeles. He never felt right about it. He missed it. Unbeknownst to me, at one point a few years back, Don wrote to his friend asking her to contact him first if she ever wanted to sell it. Fellow musicians had told him many times what a great guitar it was, what a great sound it had. He was playing that guitar when he recorded his CD with fellow musician, Dan Bonis.
A little over a week ago, she contacted him. She wanted to buy a Gibson and offered to sell the Martin to Don. We talked it over – it’s not an inexpensive guitar – but it was clear to me that Don felt passionately about the guitar, felt regret about selling it in the first place, and now he had the opportunity to get it back. He’d sold it to help us out during a tough time. He deserved to have it back.
And so it arrived yesterday. Full circle.
And I got to hear him play again, for the first time in a long time, last night.
It’s all good.
Happy Saturday.