I am, in all possible senses of the word, horrible at guitar. That should be expected, having only had a guitar for only 2–3 1 months. My rhythm is awful, my chord changes are clunky, and I basically know two strumming patterns and I suck at both. I hardly can play. But somehow, for some reason, I’m starting to feel a closeness to this instrument of pain. It is beautiful, cool, and warm.

Perhaps my steady progress at the beginning is just skewing my feelings, and when I get stuck for a couple of months, the honeymoon period ends. Only time will tell.

a photograph of a green telecaster guitar from up-close

  1. Oh My God! An en-dash! I must be using an LLM to write a perfectly normal character that has been available for decades!↩︎