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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.08 — Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

I'm not religious, but that doesn't mean that allegorical songs can't impress me. Allegory (incidentally as it were) by Murray Attaway is a strangely uplifting and mystical song that never fails to bring pictures to my mind and a sense of awe that brings me chills.

Coincidentally, or perchance not, the lyric snippet below inspired a chapter titled "Allegory" in Reluctant Moon. Thorn Rose takes her friend Streak outside the city to watch a meteor shower, knowing the precise time it will start. Seems the weather service had tracked the trajectory of a piece of the sky struck from the heavens.

I've included a listen link and a lyric link.

Lyrics: genius.com/Murray-attaway-alle
Listen: youtube.com/watch?v=wYVYSLS04Z

Sudden move in the stars, whenever I look to the skies
I can get lost, stand in a mirror and know that I
Am a fragment of something greater than I
Specks of dust in a moonbeam gathering shape
And potent of greatness waiting to light

Even the wind in the trees is the allegory
Everything that is and ever will be is the allegory

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Ian Christ :verified_coffee:

Einer der entscheidensten Fehler in unserer Gesellschaft - und besonders im Bildungssystem - ist die Prämisse, dass es Jobs gäbe, für die man nicht klug sein muss. Das ist Quatsch. Man muss immer verstehen, was man tut - sonst funktioniert's nicht!

#Chef #Sprüche in Anbetracht eines #Papierhandtuch-Spenders, der sich auf einen Zug komplett entleert hat, weil viel zu kleine und vorgestanzte statt ineinander gefaltete Handtücher eingefüllt wurden.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.06 — Talk To Me Day. Featured creator: Lydia VVinters ( @HeliaXyana ) #TTMD

It's now April 6th in London, so here's my question:

I see a lot of imagery on your website (lydiavvinters.com). How to you characterize yourself as a creator? A poet? An Artist? What do you focus on?

Also, is your last name of your pen name intentionally a double-V so it looks like a W (double-U)?

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Lydia VvintersLydia VvintersEclectic Witch
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🌘 CINC 專案概要
➤ Chef 開源生態圈的新選擇
✤ cinc.sh/
CINC 是一個基於 Chef Software Inc. 開源軟體所組成的免費軟體套件。它包含 CINC Client、CINC Workstation、CINC Auditor 和 CINC Server 等多個組件，並計畫推出 CINC Packager。專案旨在提供一個易於使用且功能強大的系統管理工具，並鼓勵社羣參與和貢獻。
+ 終於有免費的 Chef 發行版了，對小團隊或是個人學習很有幫助！
+ CINC 的發展讓人期待，希望能看到更多基於 Chef 的創新應用。
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#News #Deutschland #Europa #USA #Trump #Musk #Politik #Einflussnahme #Put.in #Russland #Ukraine

„Putins Freunde sollten keinen Einfluss auf Koalitionsverhandlungen in #Deutschland haben“

Die #Bundestagsabgeordnete von @gruene.de, Britta #Hasselmann, forderte #CDU- #Chef #Merz auf, „pro-russische Verbindungen“ in der #Partei zu beseitigen.

Sie wies darauf hin, dass ähnliche Positionen dem gemeinsamen europäischen Kurs und der Unterstützung der #Ukraine widersprechen.

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#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD @sfwrtr

@ianscraper

Many authors incorporate their own experiences and autobiographical elements into their stories. How is it with you? Which of your works contains the most of your personal experiences?

I hate to admit it, and I know a lot of people would disagree, but I don't consider myself a particularly interesting person. It may be one of the reasons I'm so bad at parties. Small talk. Scary. They'll think I'm an airhead. My shyness doesn't help that.

That said, I will admit some of the internal dialogue in my 1st person characters greatly resembles the character of my own. (Oh noes, now people will really give me dirty looks.) I do cook; that's definitely in my stories. I am rewriting a main character in an epic fantasy to be a fine art and event photographer because I can relate. I've done it; I can give details. I've even gotten paid. An evil character in a published book was my experience of my evil† stepfather. It provided a certain verisimilitude.

I'm not going to write about being a programmer, though, or sitting at a desk writing stories, or exercising each morning. Too, blah.

To say whether or not any story is even close to being autobiographical, or having more than the most peripheral personal experiences, is impossible.

I am Walter Middy.

Well, not really, but you get the idea.

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† He was evil.

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#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD @sfwrtr @amPennyfeather

What is one thing you've always wanted to share about one of your stories/your writing experience that you've never had an opportunity to share?

I can't answer that one off the cuff, I'm afraid. But I will say that my stories are often a reflection of how much my mother's life made her a hero for me. She was a 1st generation American and a black sheep in the family. She was a bailbondswoman in the 60s (and did her own bounty hunting), participated in the civil rights movement, and even (she said) burnt her bra. She raised me, while helping run companies, often as a single mom despite multiple marriages. She didn't take shit from men, except when she did. She was far from perfect, thus so are my characters.

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