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I typed in "106" and landed within the wiki realm of Devine Lu Linvega: https://xxiivv.com/

"But if we are to put any value in preserving digital art, music, video games and other distractions from the very real problems that basic needs demand, it might be worthwhile to address the problem head-on, and to encourage piracy at a massive scale, by duplicating digital content locally, to give data a chance to survive moving forward. "

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Our small city in Western Massachusetts, USA, has a big day, full of music and art (100+ performers) and yes, even fireworks in early evening, too.

Poster by Michael Crigler

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I am going to try "perspective" as my One Little Word for 2026. Can I keep perspective in a world so deeply unsettled and disturbed? Can I see things and people from a different angle? Can I back up a bit and take in the larger picture? I think the word's multiple meanings gives some flexibility for perspective.

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Earlier this year, I actually wrote an autobiography -- it was a gift last holiday from my boys, via the Storyworth platform, which sends regular writing prompts and then publishes final version in book form -- and the book I got published for the family was called Writing To Remember.

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I wrote a poem instead of creating an image

An old Kenmore stove,
all rusted and unplugged,
left here for the rewilding
deep inside the grove of trees

the discarded metal remains
of someone's kitchen, and
to think of the trouble it took
to cart it here and dump it here

and the memories it contains

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Oddly, the thing that came to my mind when I started to read the prompt (coffee has not yet kicked in, apparently) was Three French Horns, not three french hens. So I sketched three horns and wrote a quick piece for French Horn.

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This the day we often gift our daily newspaper carrier, in thanks for the morning delivery that is often very punctual.

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Our Christmas Eve tradition is that all of my children come home (check!) and then my father drives up, and then we go to Christmas Eve service at our church (where my wife in the choir) and the service ends with everyone in a large circle around the pews, holding a lit candle, as we sing Silent Night together with only candlelight flickering.

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That video of Feliz Navidad by Walk Off The Earth is so amazing. No idea what I could do except to watch it again.

Then the algorithm presents me Brandi Carlisle's exuberant 2025 version of Fairytale Of New York and now I have Shane McaGowan's rasp in my head mixed with her lovely voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnstFOTGJgc

Ok - I can't replicate Walk Off The Earth but here are a variety of remixes of my own holiday song - Gift Of Peace

https://dogtraxwrites.com/music/songs-of-peace-entire-remix-collection/

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I was stumped on this prompt. But we had visited The Met in NYC this weekend and I saw they have a whole Open Access project underway. I explored that for a bit and grabbed an image for a gif -- Franklin Seeing Stars

https://www.metmuseum.org/hubs/open-access

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Serendipity sounds like this?

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Celebrating #blogging4life

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The Isle of Musica was a lost masterpiece of a place, where collaboration fed the souls of Trebles and Basses -- two societies in the north (Treble) and south (Bass) of the island. For generations, the Musicans lived on melody, harmony and creativity. Alas, Machine arrived, and began stealing ideas, slowly winnowing down originality. A pair of Musicans escaped just before the island's collapse, and still work on a composition of musical rebirth.

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Cupcake Flowers

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I took my morning poem and sent it into the N+7 machine, which spit out stanzas of lunacy. Here is one:

N+12

Its lonesome sound
– merely bridge -
made hoof by
the worry of handwritings
on workload

And if I could,
I'd cay that number -
I'd let it float
into the alarm of
a container sleeper

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Not sure now zen this clock design is ...

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This did not turn out how I envisioned it -- remixing part of the second verse of the song -- but I don't have time to do more.

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I just finished reading the epic novel The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/233153fd-f1d2-4086-8858-7651785492aa

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Some of us from the old Headless days might appreciate this one, featuring Bender

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I never heard of this show
😀 (I'm so American)