my guitar

...needs a name.
She also desperately needs a tuning and needs to be played once a day.

I bought her from Custom Sound Instruments in Flagstaff.  She's beautiful.  Now I need to learn to play her.  Somehow in my classical music upbringing I never learned any guitar.... and when I go to Africa it will be my primary source for music-making.  Today, I'll play her.  My goal is to be able to play bar chords within the next couple of months.

In other news, I met a current Peace Corps volunteer whose blog I have been following and who I have been e-mailing with for many months yesterday.  He's in Arizona on vacation.  A very powerful conversation which left me feeling very excited.

When making large life decisions, there's going to be regret in some way, shape, or form.  You can choose to live in greif, dwelling on the future regret, or you can just be excited that your life is going to change forever.  I choose to be excited.