Just Write {80}

Blue grass, he says, comes from our time. These new guys are using it now, you know?

Old time bluegrass is playing over the speakers at the coffee house. I’m waiting to hang out with the cast of Listen To Your Mother Twin Cities, in a corner by the window so I can see our theater across the street.

His beard is stark white. His long gray hair puffs out from under his hat.

See? Listen to that, he says to his friend. It’s so good.

He’s right, it’s really good.

The other man nods and takes a sip of his coffee, looking over the top of a crossword puzzle.

These new blue grass bands now, you know how they’re trying to do blue grass? They can’t. They’re too young. You can’t do blue grass well when you don’t know anything yet. They don’t know anything yet! 

Some of the cast started to arrive then, as I was thinking over these strong blue grass opinions. Or maybe I was just wondering how much there is to know and how little of it I have figured out. I’m sure he’s earned his gray hair and silver beard, his opinions on music and what younger people don’t know.

We gathered in the next room, many of us mostly strangers to each other and we talked, did introductions, told stories. We laughed a lot and even cried a little, a few of us. Every single woman in that room has a thousand stories for every year of life lived, no matter the years. We were able to share some things we know and admit some things we don’t know.

We were mostly learning, about each other and from each other. We were singing bluegrass songs.

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