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A Million Grains Of Sand - rAveNswAn

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A Million Grains Of Sand - rAveNswAn

Woke up this morning with a goal that before I got up and out of bed I would have a concept with which to write around. I’m not sure where it came from, but within a few minutes I thought of a million grains of sand…and how a million grains seems like a lot, but how the distance they span is probably not that far. That thought then jumped to how some of life’s issues explode into seemingly huge events, only to find we’ve made mountains out of molehills. It may have put a million grains of sand between us, but only a hundred steps to make up the ground.

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Full Throttle Aristotle - rAveNswAn

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Full Throttle Aristotle - rAveNswAn

Tap the synergy

Full throttle

Cap the energy

Full bottle

What we bring to the table

Where it all starts

The whole always greater than

The sum of its parts


Full throttle

Aristotle

That’s full throttle

Aristotle​​​​​​​

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Atticus The Songbird - rAveNswAn

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Atticus The Songbird - rAveNswAn

I have always loved To Kill A Mockingbird so when Go Set A Watchman came out, I had to read it. From what I understand, the latter was Harper Lee’s first version of the story. An agent/publisher? recommended she rewrite it, but from the perspective of Scout when she was younger living the story as opposed to when she was an adult reflecting on it.

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gListen - rAveNswAn

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gListen - rAveNswAn

I thought of gListen while driving to Paneras today. I wrote the initial draft at the stop lights along the way so I wouldn't forget it.

I love writing.

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I Love You More - rAveNswAn

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I Love You More - rAveNswAn

My wife Kineta will take a flower and pluck the petals saying, "He loves me...he loves me more." Brilliant really...it is a win-win situation.

Appropriately, there is an "Easter Egg" hidden in the picture I selected. Do you see it?

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Come A Time - rAveNswAn

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Come A Time - rAveNswAn

The first verse of Come A Time popped into my head and it flowed so easy I immediately had it rolling on repeat like a song you can't shake and don't want to. Then when I sat to put it to paper, It fell into it place in the lyrics like a foot into a favorite shoe.

Come a time
We’re meant to be
Come a time
When we’re a we
‘Til then
You’re just an I
And I am just a me
‘Til then
Whatever will…
Whatever will be
Will just have to be

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Only My Breath In Front Of Me - rAveNswAn

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Only My Breath In Front Of Me - rAveNswAn

I took the picture before I left for work yesterday. As I took it, I thought of the phrase, "Left with the sunrise in my side view mirror..."

This morning I built on that and ended up writing Only My Breath In Front Of Me.

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In My Time With Mr. Clock - rAveNswAn

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In My Time With Mr. Clock - rAveNswAn

In language, we often personify our descriptions of common objects, for example, we say a clock has a face and hands. This connection between an inanimate object and a human is a cross section of sorts providing segway for a twist in perspective and the telling of a both absurd and yet accessible story. Such was the case with In My Time With Mr. Clock. Surely if Mr. Clock has a face, he has two ears, two eyes and a mouth which he can cover with his two hands in a hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil kind of way.

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Bir♪s on a Wire - rAveNswAn

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Bir♪s on a Wire - rAveNswAn

3.14.2018

Happy Pi Day!

I had read Leonardo DaVinci believed music and math were closely related, that music, like math, could be calculated. While celebrating Pi Day, read Birds On A Wire to learn the musical message the birds communicated to Mr. DaVinci. 

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