{"id":89284,"date":"2025-10-23T04:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/?p=89284"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:02:20","slug":"grandfather-says-the-continuing-chronicles-of-elaine-part-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id89284-grandfather-says-the-continuing-chronicles-of-elaine-part-78.html","title":{"rendered":"Grandfather Says: The Continuing Chronicles of Elaine, Part 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-52358\" src=\"http:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grandfather-758x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grandfather-758x1024.jpg 758w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grandfather-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grandfather-768x1037.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grandfather.jpg 1014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>The following was written by my late wife Elaine. She wrote a long book, a diary really, from which this is one passage:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being the Eastern Star pianist for several years for monthly meetings and members\u2019 funerals has also been a privilege, and I sometimes substitute at special meetings of Eastern Star in Alderson and in other chapters in southern West Virginia. I think Mom must be happy, looking down on me, seeing that I took her often-given advice: \u201cElaine, use your music.\u201d\u00a0 Thanks, Mom!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like I keep saying, music has enriched my life. It has strengthened friendships. It\u2019s made me feel I\u2019m still &#8220;in demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using my music in organizations I belong to has been the best incentive for practicing and learning new pieces. It satisfies. It cures the blues and the blahs which come to all of us from time to time. I love to play hymns and special arrangements of hymns, the Blues, Jazz, Classical, Popular and to sum it all up, every kind of &#8220;good music&#8221; from A to Z. Players, and listeners too, will never reach the end of the enjoyment and challenges of learning new music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A special once-a-year event for me for about 20 years in Union has been to accompany the Christmas cantata. A thoughtful thank you note came to Dave and I for our work with the Union Community Choir in December 1988 from the pastor of the Union Methodist Church. Gives me something nice to remember him by; a man everyone respected and loved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The piano practicing at home and the rehearsals required many hours of work before the performances, but it\u2019s all rewarding, and helps us players keep up our sight reading, and other skills. Sometimes I think about how scary it is that <em><strong>all<\/strong><\/em> of us, no matter how many years we\u2019ve played our instruments \u2013 would you believe for 50+ years? \u2013 begin to slip immediately if we don\u2019t practice something, every single day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The world renowned pianist Paderewski said, \u201cIf I don\u2019t practice for one day, I know it; \u00a0if I don\u2019t practice for two\u00a0days, the critics know it; if I don\u2019t practice for three days, the audience knows it.\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cantata&#8217;s director and I worked on this year\u2019s cantata and I enjoyed it thoroughly, including all the rehearsals \u2013 but I told the director afterward that I had made the decision that this would be my last one. \u00a0To my surprise, she said she had made the same decision. She\u2019s about 10 years younger than me, which is why I was surprised. \u00a0But she does other church music besides cantatas, and she\u2019ll do a great job with all of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, it was great while it lasted, every Christmas season since we moved here, more than twenty years ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>To be continued&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>About the Author: RD Blakeslee (1931 &#8211; 2024) built his net worth by only investing in that which can be enjoyed during acquisition and throughout life, as opposed to papers in a drawer, like stocks and bonds. You can read more about him <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id22017-how-i-live-on-less-than-40000-annually-ralph-from-west-virginia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">Photos: Courtesy of the Blakeslee Family<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following was written by my late wife Elaine. 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