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The Healing Power Of The Ukulele

9/24/2023

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​The Healing Power Of The Ukulele

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      I've spent the past six-and-a-half weeks off my feet, housebound, with another week-and-a-half to go until I receive the verdict on whether or not my fractured first metatarsal, surrounded by the still slightly swollen landscape of my foot,
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...has healed enough for me to return to the wonderful world of walking.          
       "I don't know if I could handle this as well as you've been doing," a friend recently said about my extended non-ambulatory condition. "How do you keep your spirits up?"
          To which I replied, "I play my ukulele."
          It's been five months since my trip to Hawaii where I semi-impulsively bought a ukulele and fell in
 love at first strum. (see post from 5/9/2023,   https://www.ailantha.com/blog/i-ukulelist​)
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​        There's so much about the ukulele that I love: its sweet, bouncy, cheerful sound;  the smallness of it; the tingly pressure of the strings against my fingers.
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      I love the hard work of conquering the chords. I love singing along with my playing.
​        I love the two ukulele groups I discovered and joined (and now greatly miss) here in Columbus, The Buckeye Ukulele Society,
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...and the Licking County Ukulele Club. ​
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     And those are just the things I love about the ukulele that I can verbalize.     
​    My sister jokes that the ukulele is my spirit instrument, but  I joke that it's my crack cocaine: 
once I start playing I can't stop. A half hour of practicing is nothing; an hour flies by. I get lost in it. I only know it's time to stop when my hands start aching.  Or when it's time to do something else.  Except, of course, these days there's not much else I can do. 
       And  yet these days, when I'm admittedly among the least productive of human beings, playing the ukulele somehow gives me a feeling of  productivity. 
Even if it's only music that I'm producing.
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           And not that it's even good music yet, nor may ever be:  if I wished to be a virtuoso ukulelist (and they are out there - I've met a few right here in Columbus, Ohio) I probably should have started at least fifty years ago. 
           But I guess it doesn't matter.  While I wait - and hope - for time to heal my foot, my ukulele heals my spirit. 
           Funny that a small wooden box with  a wooden neck and four nylon strings could have such power.         
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Thomas Kimble
9/26/2023 04:54:22 pm

I'd like to share this on my Facebook page with your permission.

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Patti
9/26/2023 04:58:46 pm

Oh, please do, Tom! And thank you!
Patti

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