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@Loraine thanks so much for the nice comments! Speaking of inspiration your playing, strumming, timing, and singing is on an exponential improvement trajectory! Congratulations on all your hard work. Your comment comes at a great time because I have learned that after I release music those demons creep in with “not good enough, should be better etc”. Funny you mention NPR because I saw Ira Glass last night and he shared this which is so appropriate for all of us in the the Guitar Geek Community. This is what he wrote and talked about:
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be. It has potential. But your taste — your taste is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you.
“A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting creative work went through years of this. Our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you’re just getting started or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal, and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline, so that every week, you will finish one project. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap and your work will be as good as your ambitions. It’s gonna take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” Ira Glass
It was just the message I needed to hear last night! Thanks again for all the support!
Terry