cornfedgroove
Well-known member
I had posted maybe a week ago about what a difficult year its been...and it really has been difficult. I went deaf in one ear earlier this year, then later I lost wife, family, house, job, and had to sell all my instruments minus one guitar. Alas, that's just a recap and not at all what this is about.
Here's what this thread is really about...the next time I logged in after that post, I had received multiple offers to provide me with an ukulele. That alone touched my heart and left me shocked a bit...long story short, there was so much love in the community that they pulled together with UkeRepublic and purchased a very nice ukulele for me which arrived this morning in all its glory.
I'm a proud guy, and really a man's man, but as I picked it up and looked at it, I received a text from my daughter wishing me a merry christmas eve and that they all loved me and missed me...and I couldnt help but break down and even now have tears. It's a beautiful ukulele, a tenor pono mtd, complete with case, tuner, humidifier, extra strings and polishing cloth. It has a beautiful sound and I will treasure it forever.
It also received a card with the names of all those that gave toward this wonderful gift, and I would like to thank each and every one of you. Of the 17 that gave, I have only ever met one, and even that was ever so brief. Music means alot to all of us and touches our hearts in so many crucial ways...to be blessed by complete strangers with something so precious is beyond my abilities to articulate. I imagine we are all from various walks of life with varying faiths, beliefs, and values. Yet beyond all those things, there is still a fundamental element- maybe you would call it a human element, I would not...but regardless of how we categorize it, it remains as a deeper, higher and permeating truth that there is something greater in this life than the usual paradigm of "self". On the occasions that we encounter this fundamental element, our lives are laid bare and our mind's eyes seem to see everything differently as all the frivolity of life washes away in unimportance. There is a perspective that is gained, if even for just a moment, when life is reduced to its bare necessities, its basic elements. It's in that moment, that I find that the only thing that matters in this life is love.
For me, it's Christmas, and that means alot to me...but whatever this time of year is for you 17 beautiful strangers and the rest of the underground, I pray your time is full of love and peace. I thank you again from the bottom of my heart. Have a very Merry Christmas and God bless you, one and all.
Here's what this thread is really about...the next time I logged in after that post, I had received multiple offers to provide me with an ukulele. That alone touched my heart and left me shocked a bit...long story short, there was so much love in the community that they pulled together with UkeRepublic and purchased a very nice ukulele for me which arrived this morning in all its glory.
I'm a proud guy, and really a man's man, but as I picked it up and looked at it, I received a text from my daughter wishing me a merry christmas eve and that they all loved me and missed me...and I couldnt help but break down and even now have tears. It's a beautiful ukulele, a tenor pono mtd, complete with case, tuner, humidifier, extra strings and polishing cloth. It has a beautiful sound and I will treasure it forever.
It also received a card with the names of all those that gave toward this wonderful gift, and I would like to thank each and every one of you. Of the 17 that gave, I have only ever met one, and even that was ever so brief. Music means alot to all of us and touches our hearts in so many crucial ways...to be blessed by complete strangers with something so precious is beyond my abilities to articulate. I imagine we are all from various walks of life with varying faiths, beliefs, and values. Yet beyond all those things, there is still a fundamental element- maybe you would call it a human element, I would not...but regardless of how we categorize it, it remains as a deeper, higher and permeating truth that there is something greater in this life than the usual paradigm of "self". On the occasions that we encounter this fundamental element, our lives are laid bare and our mind's eyes seem to see everything differently as all the frivolity of life washes away in unimportance. There is a perspective that is gained, if even for just a moment, when life is reduced to its bare necessities, its basic elements. It's in that moment, that I find that the only thing that matters in this life is love.
For me, it's Christmas, and that means alot to me...but whatever this time of year is for you 17 beautiful strangers and the rest of the underground, I pray your time is full of love and peace. I thank you again from the bottom of my heart. Have a very Merry Christmas and God bless you, one and all.