The Glory-Beaming Banjo

Hello, is anyone still with me? This is not the publishing schedule I envisioned for this blog's 10th anniversary . Somehow it's been eight months since my last post . Even worse, after ending my epic streak of playing my instruments every day for almost a year and a half, my practice time lost all sense of consistency.  In fact, I have barely played music at all since July. Without open jams or local festivals, I seem to have lost my motivation to practice. I used to take my fiddle with me to the office and play in the park down the street during my lunch break. Now that I only go in once a week, I just don't feel like dragging along my gear to work anymore.  Being at home so much the past two years, you would think that I'd find more opportunities to pick up my banjo or fiddle. That has not been the case. I think last year, there was more focus on staying connected to the old-time community virtually, through online jams, workshops and performances. After another yea