RAYMUND B. HABARADAS
It’s been several months since I started taking formal guitar lessons. I haven’t been able to put in much time for practice the past few weeks, though, because I had to go on field work in El Nido, and had to finish the final chapters of a textbook I am writing with a colleague. I thank my guitar instructor, Jasper Jimenez, for being patient with me, even if I haven’t been able to master the pieces that he has assigned, as quickly as expected. I guess it helps that I am twice as old as he is, old enough to be his father!