After weeks of nagging at my son for spending hours watching car crashes, bones breaking during football games and cats spinning on chandeliers, I finally broke down and explored You Tube. I am in love. There are episodes of old shows I love and have not seen for years, Pablo Casals playing the cello and demonstrations of crotchet stitches I cannot master. And, yes, cats spinning on chandeliers can be really funny.
Why oh why did I not discover wonderful You Tube before?
Speaking of cello music (which I can even though most people are bored by it but this is my blog) I love watching Pablo Casals because I have a glimmer of the difficulty of what he did with a cello. In my youth, I was the absolutely worst cello player in my school orchestra. I loved the way the cello sounded, like a deep rich voice behind the violin's squeaking, and I was determined to master it. Alas! I was so bad the teacher gently advised me to first just bow above the strings, then urged me to take up the bass violin and then I got the hint and quietly gave up music.
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