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As a small girl I grew up watching old classic films. My most favorite screen legends was (and always will be) The Marx Brothers. In their 1929 movie “The Cocoanuts,” Harpo is seen playing the clarinet; it’s a 40 second solo I have remembered my whole life. Harpo Marx has inspired all of this.
I am a 24 year old, average Cleveland gal. I am a college student (although at the current moment I am struggling in my studies) and I work in a care facility for Alzheimer and Dementia patients.
I feel like I’m… stuck in life. I have been feeling pretty down on myself of recent. I can’t get ahead in school, I can’t get my financial ends to meet, I have a job where I’m not moving anywhere and I get to watch people slowly die every day.
–However, I do have a wonderful boyfriend (Eben) who is so marvelous to me. For Christmas he bought me my very own clarinet!
upon opening the gift, joy sprang out of me in the form of a tackle.
Never before have I played the clarinet; never before have I touched a clarinet! But at the age of 24 I have decided to teach myself after 20 years of wanting to learn. God knows if anything will blossom from it, but I need a channel to curb these negative emotions I feel. I know it’s a crazy idea, but maybe if I am able to document my progress I can actually feel like change is happening. …Or accomplishment? …Or success at …anything other than being terrible.
If anyone actually stops to read this blog … uh welcome? You’ve obviously stumbled very far. I do recognize not many people will be interested in a stranger learning to play an instrument they don't care about; but thats ok, this is just for funsies.
I have never done anything that involves writing. Nor have I done anything on the internet that involves writing; this even includes Twitter or status updates on Facebook. Therefore, I apologies in advance for my lack of literary ability.
And off I go.
