Someone somewhere has compiled a list of daily prompts. Please raise your hand if you have.
Or, send me a post that lists them all.
I know, I know — the list changes all the time.
One of my favorites, The Unicorn Challenge, stopped last year and I wanted to cry. I had a rhythm to my week that included that, W3 (The Skeptics Kaddish), and Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Once The Unicorn Challenge ended, I felt like I had tripped while marching and couldn’t get back in step.
I’m trying hard to find a rhythm again. I search my reader looking for something to write about. That’s how I’ve stumbled — more than once — on posts that involve sharing music. I think it’s MMMM — Monday’s Music Moves Me. (I found it on John Holton’s The Sound of One Hand Typing.)
Here’s what I can piece together. The prompt is put out on Sunday (or Monday) and runs for a week. The hosts are: Marie, Cathy, Alana, and Stacy. This week’s prompt is to share music about long sunny days.
I’m an early morning person so sunrises are my thing. “Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles was the first song that came to my mind:
The second was the first movement (Sunrise) of Ferde Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite. You actually hear the sunrise. No lie.
The third was not a sunrise song but a homesick Scottish song about heartbreak, resilience, strength, and hope. Scottish skies are famously gray, so sunshine breaking through represents optimism.
Hopefully I did this M&M thing right.