Day Three of the Here: 5 Things Fall 2023
The prompt for today is to list five things about the mornings:
- Contacts, hair, and meds
- Choosing the tea blend and mug for my morning cuppa
- NYT Crossword puzzle
- Devotions and prayer
- The view from the living room window
- Cereal and yogurt for breakfast
Okay, that’s six things. I am an English teacher, retired. There is a reason I didn’t teach math!
This practice of listing five things each day is a way of making me mindful of the present.
In addition to the list of five morning things, I made a list of some of the songs and artists I listened to while driving to pick up my groceries. Here are some of today’s playlist from Amazon Music:
- “Travelin’ Soldier” by Home Free
- “Can’t Help Falling in Love with You” by Pentatonix
- “Seven Bridges Road” by Home Free
- “Circle of Life”
- “Down on the Corner” by Street Corner Symphony
- “The Fox” by Peter Hollens
- “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Pentatonix
- “I’m Home/Somewhere over the Rainbow” by Straight No Chaser
- “Misty Mountains” by Peter Hollens
There were some songs by BYU Vocal Point as well, but I didn’t get those put in my notepad app while I waited for the folks at WalMart to bring out my groceries. I love the fact that I order my groceries and schedule a pickup time for the next morning. It cuts down on my impulse buying.
Did I say I was writing a novel? My novel, tentatively titled Letters from a Travelin’ Soldier, is inspired in part by the song “Travelin’ Soldier.” I imagined what it would be like for a couple to be separated by war and to exchange letters. At first, it was going to be entirely set in the Regency period in Great Britain because, well, because I am addicted to Regency historical novels. As I was beginning the novel, I started thinking about parallel couples, one from the Regency period and one from the present time. So I came up with a modern protagonist who falls in love with a soldier. She has a four or five-times great grandmother, who is her namesake, who also loves a British officer fighting Napoleon on the Peninsula.
The power for music and songs and stories. . . . . More on the novel later.
Telling Stories 