jennyarntzen.music

  The house is in disarray by late afternoon after the dogs have been hanging out. Adele is perched on the recliner and Eddy is sprawled on the couch. Everything has to have a cover. They love chewing and tearing up paper so I give them recycling to shred before I put it in the worm bins. In the front hall my two new accordions are waiting for me. I have my first collection of sheet music to learn from the Squeezebox Circle. I am here to tell you, as I tell myself, that it is never too late to learn something new. Perhaps this is our greatest hope in these dark days of authoritarianism and rampant corruption signalling the catastrophic system collapse of the failure of patriarchy, capitalism and religion. We can, and will, learn new ways to organize our human affairs to sustain our lives on earth.  For me, right now, learning to play the accordion is part of my contribution to the solution. Last night I went to my first session with the accordion players at the Squeezebox Circ...