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Music Notes

A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff

. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.

This is the poem which earned my blog its green ribbon, courtesy Brian K Compton

"Renewal"

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

Jun 28, 2025 at 4:20pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 10"

Wow! Look at all the work you've done this month! Congratulations on all your writing projects throughout June. Especially joining in on the "Invalid Item"

Blogging month!

Good job!

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Jeff

Jun 28, 2025 at 11:02am
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 10"

Congrats on finishing "Invalid Item"

(and so many other writing projects)!

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AmyJo-Downhill slide begins!

Jun 28, 2025 at 7:50am
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 10"

Wow!!!

What a busy bee you are! I am exhausted just reading your achievements. Good for you! You are an inspiration~ Whereas I've to deal with the perspiration of checking stuff out. Keep up the good work, and enjoy a few days off before the next adventure begins...

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Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

Jun 26, 2025 at 2:31pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 8"

It's too bad your boss at the Christian charity workshop, turned so nasty when you were able to return after a month out due to the Covid rules. I guess it made him so angry that it happened, he took it out on the employees.

It's always a good idea to keep up with cursive writing. These days the youth don't even bother anymore. I like the fact that they probably need translations for handwritten notes!

I'm guilty of not hand writing much. But, years of overworked fingers and hands led to arthritis in those joints which makes it difficult.

Great music themes to get your creativity up.

Thanks for sharing!

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Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

Jun 25, 2025 at 1:20pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 7"

How cool having a Raggedy Ann and And MB commissioned. I can't wait to see it.

Also, wonderful that you placed in the Shadows & Light contest.

I don't know how you keep up with all these writing activities and contests.

Fantastic!

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Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

Jun 25, 2025 at 1:11pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 6"

Radioactive was played on a loop in stores like Walmart, grocery stores, even Staples! It still pops in my head like a brain worm I can't shake.

However, I have a couple daughters living in CA who would always go to ID's concerts whenever they were in the area.

But yeah, music does attach to us in a way that's undeniable. I love background music when I'm doing stuff. It seems to make chores less "chorey."

. Writing with music playing, I believe, heightens the creative output.

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Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

Jun 25, 2025 at 11:05am
In response to "Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 5"

Very cool and creative! I love the transparent handwriting layered over the selfie. Words, music and art are woven within your life--I see that clearly here.

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Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

Jun 24, 2025 at 8:54pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 4"

It was delightful learning how you were so focused on cover design, characters, even the dog! You are quite the planner. Yet you found a different path rather than continuing a novel. I think short stories can be fascinating. I call them lunch-break reads. They aren't too cumbersome to read in a short time. And, they don't pull you into wanting to read more than lunchtime allows.

One could lose their job if that happened. I know, I kid a bit. Books are great before bedtime. That's when I do my novel reading.

You do so many short stories here. I can see your passion for writing them.

Thank you for sharing that book, to cover, to short stories, experience. Music is a fantastic backdrop to writing. I do enjoy music.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Jun 23, 2025 at 8:21pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 6"

My upbringing was impoverished in different ways. One thing we may have in common is that I was not allowed to swear. Not a bad thing... but when I learned how to swear it was like a damn broke (yes, damn not dam). These days, I don't swear much but when I let go...

Music does speak to me. Which may be why I prefer silence.

A song from my childhood... Handel's Largo from Xerxes:

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Jun 23, 2025 at 8:05pm
In response to "Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 5"

Never remove... let it sink into the sands (or mud or snirt).

Goes for writings as well as photos. You can thank me 50 years from now with laughter.

Yes, I understand Eeyore.

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June 20, 2025 at 8:05am

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The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 7

Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

StephBee

"The Bard's Hall Contest"

Sometimes all I think about is you
Late nights in the middle of June
Heat wave’s been faking me out
Can't make you happier now…
"Heat Waves," by Glass Animals.
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Ever since this song came out, I felt it perfectly captures the mood that comes around every June. Stifling air, short nights and long days mess with my head, and I feel as though I spend most of the fleeting darker hours lying awake, wondering what's become of my life. Things get done, somehow.

My writing goals are rolling along pretty well this month. I've cleared the third week of Rachel's Beatles Challenge, with twenty drabbles located at "Pocket Size Stories"

. I'm all caught up on "Promptly Poetry Challenge (2024-2025)"

, and a few weeks ago I passed the threshold to receive the PPC award on my "Promptly Poetry"

book. I've written three "Reflections"

stories: twelve down, two to go.

One of the stories is higher stakes, because it'll be my submission to the Quotation Inspiration, but I'm intending to write a relaxing “cozy story” and basically just chill, wrapping up my Reflections universe and bidding farewell to the characters I've spent three solid months developing. Whether it places or not is inconsequential. I intend to also submit it to Light in Mind and his Grill a Christian, to answer the question of “how do we find peace?” It may or may not be what he's looking for, but I don't think I'll have the energy for a personal philosophical monologue at the last minute, so a story will have to do.

Something I wasn't expecting to do this month is commission an exclusive Merit Badge

Thanks to the generosity of my friend Sung'manitu

who sponsored it and advised me on its usage, I now own a group and am waiting on a Raggedy Ann and Andy badge. See the group here "Love is Best When Shared"

. I'm a little nervous about how and when to hand it out… At first I thought I would have an “at-cost” giveaway party, and then I realized I can offer it to 🐕GeminiGem🎁

as one of the monthly special writing rewards at "Invalid Item"

. I hope I haven't set up any false expectations as to who will receive it and who will be able to send it

Anyway, that was a learning experience, for sure. I'll be happy to own something so deeply personal and at the same time universally loveable. I also am aware of the limitations of my ownership; if there ever comes a time when I decide to close my account, I promise I will make arrangements to transfer the group to Schnujo's Doing Homework

to maintain the existence of the MB. Perhaps I should prepare a WdC will…

Now for a moment of

my "Tuscan Afternoon"

placed second at "Shadows and Light Poetry Contest"

. It's the first time I've placed higher than Honorable Mention in the year or so I've remembered to enter. A humble thank-you to Rachel and Dave for running such a high-quality contest. My PPC5 book has four ribbons on it so far.

In other news, Dan Reynolds and his brother Mac have finally announced the upcoming release of a video game they've been designing and teasing us about for years. Mac Reynolds is the band manager for Imagine Dragons, and of course Dan is lead singer and songwriter. I don't do video games, but I think if I ever did, this one they're making would be a suitable entrance to that universe. I've read the reviews from game critics who were invited to preliminary testing, and they all enjoyed it, even if they didn't think they would. (A “family friendly shooter?” That's so totally Dan Reynolds

)

While I was wrestling with stories number eleven and twelve of Reflections, I missed the kerfuffle Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic stirred up over June 14th. He expressed dismay about how the No Kings protests overshadowed the Army birthday celebration, and was promptly accused of being a Trump supporter. I don't know or particularly care what Ryan's political affiliations are, but I'm rather annoyed with him for sticking his neck out. I've already seen music critics poo-pooing 1R for being goody-two-shoes “church music.” The last thing I want to see is people claiming they're no longer 1R fans because of something he said being too “right-wing” for them. Ah well, it's just one of those social media dust-ups that'll be forgotten in a day or two. Much ado about nothing.

In the meantime, I shall write. I always do.

Words: 720 (excluding the quote in italics.)

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