#thanksgivingthursday 17 November 2016

I am thankful that music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.  Music has been with me to lift my spirits up, inspire me, pace my workouts, and console me when I'm blue.  Music has been very personal and sometimes private but at other times it has been something that is shared and celebrated with friends and a couple of thousand other fans.

I am glad that I have had a diverse taste in music that reaches across a pretty wide spectrum of genres and yet there are some types that I just don't care for in the least.  I admit that I can be a bit of a music snob but I am not nearly as much of a critic as I was in my youth.  I think we all have a little bit of music snobbery in us but that is just part of who we are.

There are many times when I wished I had done more with music directly...and I may still.  Never be too old for anything.

I have been fortunate to have seen many wonderful musicians play live and in person and that is amazing to me when I reflect back on all the many groups I have seen.  It is one thing to see an orchestra perform wonderfully the works of a renowned dead composer, but then to take it too the next level and get to see the composers perform their own works of mastery the way they wish them to be known is really special.

And tonight will be one of those nights and my excitement mounts.  A few of my family and I are going to enjoy an evening of music.  And even though the concert starts just before my bed time and even though my ears have been a little plugged for three days from fighting a cold, and the change in the weather is making my joints ache just a little more than normal, I AM EXCITED.

This is Ed Nef with a view from the Farrwest.