{"id":9956,"date":"2015-02-14T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T23:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2015-02-14T18:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T23:24:37","slug":"different-strokes-and-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2015\/02\/different-strokes-and-notes.html","title":{"rendered":"different strokes (and notes)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Valentine’s Day, I bought my beloved an early present, before I left town. \ud83d\ude42 Seriously — he loves music, and with his busted up knees, it’s sometimes a royal pain to get up & change the music. So, I bought him a bluetooth gadget that coordinates between his phone and our receiver. Cool, huh?<\/p>\n

Here’s the part I hadn’t considered: we like pretty different music. Sure there’s overlap: we both like some oldies, certain smooth jazz, even many holiday carols. But overall? I’m a classical\/ jazz\/ ethnic & international music girl. I like techno, even electronica, and all kinds of ‘weird’ things. He likes some jazz, but more rock’n’roll, certain female vocalists, and other stuff I can’t really put in neat boxes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This is good, right? That we have different tastes? That I am learning more about this man I’ve known a lifetime? This is a kind of cool beginner’s heart journey: sharing new artists, revisiting old ones. Except when I’m thinking; that is flat NOISE, honey!<\/em><\/p>\n

In other words? This really is\u00a0a definite beginner’s heart thing: patience, amusement, and self-learning. Laughing even as I I wince at the hammering bass line. (Seriously — it’s really NOT all about the bass, folks.) It’s the kind of gift that….goes on giving. Right? \ud83d\ude09 And that’s a\u00a0good<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0thing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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