To grow as a songwriter, I’ve also striven (is that a word?) to expand my ability to paint word pictures, using details from all senses.
So I thought it’d be cool if we did a start/finish to work on descriptive sentences. (we did this with rhymes) You can either submit the start of a sentence, or finish one that’s already been offered. Ready? Go
(why am I talking in parenthesis today?)
(that was facetious)
I slowly walked up the stairs to find…
the puppy had left his blanket on the landing, though it was now in several more pieces than it had been previously.
(and if striven wasn’t a word…and I tend to think it wasn’t…you have now made it one. That’s how it works, you know)
Julia lives underground, where…
she bumps her head on the low tilted ceiling every dark damp morning that she awakes.
Solo flights are always more invigorating than
than making awkward small talk with an unsociable and slightly quirky flight instructor.
whoops on the ‘than’…
If tomorrow was today, we would all
Be one day closer to Friday?
(hahhaha!)
be starting each new dawn, sitting at our breakfast tables, soaking in the warm breath of the morning sun, that gift from God steaming in our hands, wondering if everything we believe we have experienced, all the beautiful moments, all the nightmares, are just part of some liquid dream we have yet to wake from.
Phone in hand, do I finally have the courage to ask
The volcano erupted just before
Hey! My comments got switched!
(I didn’t do it… Not sure why…)
my wife about why she chose those dang curtains?!?!
When you think about the sun, you think about
…that distant happiness that hides its sweet face from Boston. We (the sun and I) used to be friends.
(I think we’ve been taken over by Dementors.)