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I have dabbled since High School, but a few years before retirement (and COVID), I decided to return to this early love and get serious. I figured that if one can get a bachelor’s degree in four years of focused effort, then one could learn to play with joy and ease with such effort. Well, as an older person now retired, it takes a little longer, but it can be accomplished. I am still on that path, aches in the joints and loss of vocal range and all. The serendipity of the journey has been that age has helped remove comparative thinking and replaced it with enjoyment no matter how “good” or “bad” one is. So, to all you who are picking up the guitar again (or for the first time in advancing years) you are doing yourself a favor.