What I want on my birthday (swunked from sartorias - never let a good idea go to waste)

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So, tomorrow I turn 46.

Here is my wish, for anyone dropping by, who has a few extra seconds: you share with me some special memory. This was sartorias' suggestion, which I cannot improve upon: I know how busy people are. It doesn't have to be long. One good thing about having a brain wired for image is that the briefest reference to, say, "The day i saw a triple rainbow" brings immediately to mind the day when I was ten that I saw a triple rainbow. There I am on my bike, riding downhill as fast as I can because the biggest rainbow ends, so clearly, right where Linda C lives, at the bottom of the hill below school, where two streets converge...the light is silvery-gray, and smells of wet pavement and grass, there are three levels of clouds and all of them ragged. How I loved the magic of that day--even if the end of the rainbow kept moving. But somehow it was better to never find the end.

And incidentally: happy birthday to bdunbar and to the lovely purple_mirie!

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Re: Happy birthday!

[guarani]

Take into account that I've spent more than half of my life learning the instrument...

Re: Happy birthday!

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I recently found out that at the time when I was - all too briefly - at the King's School, Canterbury, in my teens, one of the music teachers there (presumably the most senior) was Ronald Smith. Look him up. Sickeningly, I can say that I actually made an effort to take advantage of the school's music teaching - which came unstuck when I was forced to leave the school for money and family reasons. The thought that I just could have got to being taught the piano by one of the world's greatest virtuosi of all time just makes me sick, even today. Music is my lifelong love - especially classical - but I never got back to learning to play.

Re: Happy birthday!

[guarani]

It's never late to start learning, you know, especially if you don't aim at pursuing a performing career. You need a good teacher and time to practice.