A Leaf on Appreciation

four-and-twenty-blackbirds asked: Can Write One Leaf be used for poetry?

I should hope so. The limits to how Write One Leaf can be used are based solely on the limits of the human imagination.

Write one leaf about the limits of the human imagination.

Before Marina taught me to play the guitar, I never noticed strumming or the timing of lyrics or even the difference between a clean note and a not-so-clean one. I loved music, but I enjoyed it passively the way a person enjoys a television show. Looking back I feel so handicapped, roadblocked by the unwitting lack of knowledge. I wish I had learned to appreciate sounds more or that I had train myself to listen more closely to the nuances. All those different strumming techniques, all the changing beats, all the ways to grip the strings. I wonder what else I've missed and how I've limited myself simply by not trying to learn something. How much brilliance slipped right under my nose, how many moments of inspiration and instruction I must have missed. I suddenly realize that I know so much less than I could possibly imagine. But in a good, hungry way rather than a lost and lonely way. There is so much I want to know.