This is week two of my 75 day challenge to see if I could re-learn how to play anything on the piano.

So far, all my fingers seem to think they are thumbs. That isn’t nice. Especially after all I’ve done for them. What about all that greasy Vaseline hand lotion? The woolen gloves so they wouldn’t turn blue? The restraint I’ve shown in not jawing about their sags, age spots, wrinkles and crookedy joints? And this is the thanks I get. Wrong notes, fingering errors, and their inability to memorize a single phrase correctly.

As if that isn’t demoralizing enough, consider this. While I’m still struggling with the scales and exercises, I can sort of fumble my way through the elementary Bach’s Prelude in C Major and Beethoven’s Minuet in C. But then – still alive and reasonably unharmed –  I decided to try to tackle Mozart’s Minuet in G – a tune that looks like any baby can play it.  And it should look like that, because its composer was only four years old when he wrote it. Unfortunately, even at that age Amadeus had no pity or respect for 90 year old piano player-wannabes. I just have to know what kind of preschool that little prodigy was attending.
https://youtu.be/bke8MvLws5M

You have to admire a kid like that. By the time he was five and still had all his baby teeth, he wrote his first Requiem – he even knew how to spell it!

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We’d best not even mention all the other little ditties he went on to produce by the time his acne went away.

Matter of fact, we have to be flabbergasted by what the small persons in our midst can accomplish, and not just in olden times. On a smaller scale, I recently stumbled into stories about wee folk who will surely knock your socks off if you’re wearing any.

Check out this little three-year-old dolly:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/24/app-news-section/mobile-videos-of-the-year-2021/index.html

Or this budding artist:
https://youtu.be/laKm4Y8SFNg

But of all the achievements of the tiny persons that I viewed this week, this one tops them all. This is the video of an 8 week old baby named Haisley Rae Allen.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/01/19/baby-first-words-acfc-the-goods-vpx.cnn

There surely isn’t a parent on earth who wouldn’t swoon to hear their 8 week-old baby tell them “I wuv you!” Even if she still wets the bed and doesn’t have any teeth!