Sitting in a comfortable enough chair and Looking out the window at the Sun-drenched world that Basks in glowing warmth while I Feel my skin prickle ever so slightly at the Thermostat’s setting not quite getting it right because My desk is just too far away from it
It’s a neat setup, but not mine. Photo by Element5 Digital on Pexels.com
The sudden chime rings out and I lean forward from where I had been leaning back Looking outside in an idle moment now gone by and Reminded that there are tasks before me that Only I can do Because there is nobody else here And I set myself to them once again
I am and remain happy to write to order–and without AI plagiarism!
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“Generation” begins with Tintaglia waking near Kelsingra, recovered from her earlier ordeals. Kalo and Icefyre fly nearby, the latter rebuking the younger dragons for their deviations from older ways, and they, in turn, assert the need for change against a world unlike that which Icefyre remembers. A brief argument and exchange of insults ensues, and Tintaglia thinks ahead to what may come for the eggs she is soon to lay and the serpents and dragons that will proceed from them. Below, in Kelsingra, Selden leads a cheer for the departing dragons and the new generation promised, and Tintaglia flies away.
Probably not quite what’s in mind, here… Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
The epilogue is brief, as epilogues are wont to be, and it focuses on the non-human inhabitants of the Rain Wilds, as the Trader-centered novels tend towards doing. The view into other inhabitants of the Realm of the Elderlings remains a welcome thing, and there is something to be said for having what seems to be a happy ending for the characters who have managed to make it through the pages of the series. It’s nice.
A couple of notes about the rereading probably need to be made here. I’m not really doing this in a strict chronological order, at least in terms of what got published when. I skipped the Soldier Son novels to treat the Rain Wilds Chronicles, and I’m going to put them off until after I get through the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy, to which I’m turning next. There’re also some one-off things and shorter projects that might get addressed in the interim; I’m not sure on those yet. I do know, though, that when I can situate a given text within the broader context of what I’ve already reread, I’ll do that (that is, if I know something happens around the time of oh, Verity rising against the Out Islands, I’ll make that comment). There’s still a lot of rereading to do; I’m looking forward to doing it!
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I may have mentioned previously that I wanted to be a band director when I grew up. I may have also noted that I was, for at least a while, involved in local band initiatives that ended up centering on a high school alumni band. I was not able to keep putting into that project what it needs, and so I had to step back from it, but I remember it fondly and enjoyed my time doing that work.
A little bit of the piece in question. Image is mine.
Part of that work involved putting together pieces for the irregular ensembles that would turn out. Most of the time, it ended up being a trio: two saxes and a trombone. As might be imagined, there’s not a lot written specifically for that setup, and even stuff that might kind of fit needs some…adjusting before it will work well for such a group. I’m fortunate that I have some tools to use to do that kind of thing, and it seemed appropriate on this first of March to post an arrangement of a march my high school band used to play that seemed to go over well when the alumni group played it: Seitz’s “March Grandioso.”
I’ve got a few other pieces I put together for that arrangement. I might well post some of them in time to come. Maybe someday I’ll have things set up that I can upload audio, even!
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