Comments on: Choose sitting for the rest of your life.

By: erin

erin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:41:27 +0000

Hi Geoff
Oh I know, I go on a bit for being such a young ‘late starter’ don’t I?
My teacher has also talked about doing Grades – I did them in flute and hated it, but I was younger then. I think it will give me some goals now, so I’ve agreed it’s a good idea. He promises to have me over prepared for them so they won’t be stressful.
I really miss playing with people, so I think ELLSO will help with that. I’ll definitely being blogging about it. The membership secretary swears I shouldn’t be nervous about it, but of course I am.
There are quite a few amateur groups around, so I may jump around if ELLSO isn’t for me. I’ve convinced my husband and a good friend to join with me so I better stay for awhile!
Thanks for the comments, I will definitely check out those books.
–Erin

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:58:09 +0000

You might enjoy “For the love of it” by Wayne Booth and John Holt’s “Never too Late”. You’re a relatively young late starter (I started about 18 months ago at 55 and have learnt the origins of the term “starting from scratch”), but there’s a lot of inspiring and reassuring stuff in those books. I’m just about to start with a new teacher (Deryn my first teacher was super, but has run away to Leeds – possibly not because of my always tense right shoulder, but who knows?) and she has mentioned doing Grades. That is Scary. But sort of tempting…
I thought about ELLSO too, but it’s a bit more time commitment than I can afford at present. I hope you’ll include your thoughts on ELLSO in your super blog.
Rock on.
Geoff