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Wishing you well and sorry for your troubles.
Jamie, hope it all works out for you and the family.
Wow, thats tough.
I have not been active here for a while because of my situation and I can sympathise although my story is maybe the opposite, I have too many guitars and no longer play them. Unfortunately for you I am in Shellharbour, 50 miles south of Sydney, I could lend you one if you were nearer.
I too married and Aussie girl and moved here from England 22 years ago. Karen passed away after a long battle with cancer three months ago, she was the love of my life, a real beauty, always kind and caring and I guess my muse. Everyone who met her will never forget that smile.
I took off to Paris a few weeks ago just to escape the empty house, that distraction helped my head a bit, and seeing Steven Reinhardt at La Chope certainly made me want to get back to learning GJ, but coming home reminded me of my pain.
I have just recently tried to start playing again thinking it will help fill the emptiness but it just does not feel the same, maybe it will come back with time, who knows.
I am lucky to have the support of some of Karen's family and friends but have found it is the women who have been the greatest help, most men find it difficult to talk about such things. It is good at least to read the messages of support and sympathy on here, and hopefully you have some friends and family close by.
You must focus on the positives, take care of your wife, and keep the hope that she gets through.
beautiful picture man. Sorry for you.
Thanks, luckily I have 100s more.
And this one from 1999 will tell you why I moved to the other side of the world all those years ago.
@ChrisMartin Equally sorry to hear of the loss of your wife. That capacity to open our hearts and deeply love another individual isn't strictly a human trait, but it is those emotions that have inspired some of the greatest art across all mediums.
There is a video with Billy Bob Thornton where he talks about the death of his brother and how it changed him. How he is okay with the sadness he still feels because it honors his brother. Then don't be down because you lost her, rejoice that you loved her (and she you) for so many years. My best wishes to you as you grieve her loss.
Thanks for the wishes and comments. Chris that is so tough, sorry.
Trying to play guitar when your life is in turmoil doesn't work. You feel as though it should be capable of lifting you up, but when it doesn't, it's upsetting. It has come back to me a bit recently, helped by the lovely acoustics of the place we were staying at. That's why I'm finding playing the nylon classical so rewarding - the softness befits my mood and I'm noodling away with weird and wonderful chords and slow disjointed melodies.
I too have far too many guitars, and I'll be downsizing when I finally make it back to Scotland.
Jamie
Sorry @ChrisMartin.
Love y'all and f*ck cancer
She was a beautiful lady with a beautiful smile.
Reminds me of the book I read. A Currency For The Cat, by John Bills. A Welsh guy who thought traveling to Bosnia-Herzegovina would help deal with his grief. He figured that it's gotta be about the only place where people carry bigger grief than himself. Fell in love with the country and its people. Wrote a book about it and continued traveling in the area writing about his experiences. I don't know if I ever read anything about my home country, written with more with love and awe for its natural beauty.
People grieve in many ways. Some less desirable, like hitting the bottle or bottling up everything inside. Anything that makes you moving forward is good, I figure. It might take time though and that's ok too. Good thing you have those women around you to talk to, Chris.