Sara Ryan

Unexpected

I saw live music twice this week. My former teacher, at a bar. One of the guys from the studio, at his church.

Music’s mostly fallen out of my life. Haven’t cracked open my case in years. When I have a minute to think about it, it makes me sad.

But I was talking about how the skills you learn in adolescence stay with you, and my hands shaped an invisible violin and bow.

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8 Responses to “Unexpected”

anonymous Says:
Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 1:48 pm. |

violins are awesome…were you ever in an orchestra?
anonymous Says:
Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 1:52 pm. |

btw…any idea on when The Rules for Hearts will be coming out? Empress of the World was a great book and I’m anxious to read the sequal! =)

ps…thanks for writing Empress!!!…and thanks for being an AWESOME writer! =D
moriath Says:
Monday, December 12, 2005 at 12:25 am. |

The girl who lives next to me in the dorm plays oboe. It makes me miss my oboe, and wonder where I’d be now if I’d actually kept up and *practiced* in middle school.
nevikmoore Says:
Monday, December 12, 2005 at 1:09 am. |

“Air fiddling”?

My mom still has my violin. I think she’s keeping it for sentimental reasons, even though my practice rate, were it a heart rate, would barely register as “alive.”

What I miss are my electric guitars. I wanna make some noize! Skronk!
maeve66 Says:
Monday, December 12, 2005 at 12:57 pm. |

Hi — you don’t know me from Adam (or Eve, or whatever), but I’m a friend of and she outed you as a librarian or librarian in training who knows a lot about YAF, and that is a combination that I always, always like… is it okay if I friend you? And feel free to do the same. I don’t ALWAYS, always write about books, but I do sometimes, and I tend to comment on them — cf. ’s post just now.

Vive les bibliothècaires — at least I think that’s “librarians.”
thisisnotanlj Says:
Monday, December 12, 2005 at 2:19 pm. |

yes, i’ve been in a bunch of them — mostly school-related, but some community orchestras too. and a few chamber groups. i’d like to do more chamber music. sometime.
thisisnotanlj Says:
Monday, December 12, 2005 at 2:20 pm. |

hey, thank *you*! :)
and as far as i know, if all goes well, the rules for hearts will be out sometime next fall.
thisisnotanlj Says:
Monday, December 12, 2005 at 2:21 pm. |

absolutely you can friend me! and you inspired me to write an actual lj bio, which i hadn’t yet, which outs me as writer AND librarian. :)