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SEROTINE TUNES
A late bloomer's musical mystery tour
It’s not always easy being a beginner in an expert world. It helps to have a website.
Why “Serotine Tunes?"
In A Country Year by Sue Hubbell, when she writes about the trees on her property, she calls them by their botanical names. One such tree is Prunus Serotina,* which means late blooming cherry tree. Being a musical late bloomer, this immediately struck a chord with me.
For me, feeling like a perennial beginner seems be a side effect of being a late bloomer. To combat discouragement when it arises, I prunus my expectationus, and take long walks. When I return, the words of Marie Bashkirtseff welcome me home: “Art is as much of happiness for the beginner as for the master.”
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*Serotine is another form of Serotina.
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