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September 1-2

SEPTEMBER 1

Resolved? Talking to Dillon: answer to my dilemma may be Samsung 9S plus.

I think these were my August contest entries:

"Cecilie" 
"Winter Roses" 
"We never asked her name [220]" 
"Rosemary for memory " 
"The Ayes have it [174] " 
"Unhappy endings [219]" 

I ran out of steam. I'm only happy with a couple of them.

58 degrees at 11am. Quite cold at dawn.

I received 3 awardicons today:

"Opening the garden ... of the heart [109] (36 lines)"  in "Nurture your Nature"  Share your faith
"Rosemary for memory "  Senior
"Butterfly Herbs on the 22nd of May"  Whatever

It's grocery day.

CONCOURS D'ÉCRITURE DE SEPTEMBRE

nope "Invalid Item"  21 merit badges ... but 21 or birthday related? *ick*
"Barrel of Monkeys"  10 songs Dimash
"The WDC Birthday Bash Blog Relay"  9 day blog relay 8 groups so I'll need to do 8 comments per day.
" Unicorn, Bunny Writing Contest Closed"  Bo and Sprinkles
"Marketing Muse is Closed for Judging"  jingle
"Charlie Chaplin Chews Chocolate Chutney"  alliteration is sending me home (anticipation song)
"MechGrammical"  smoosh
"Poetry Music Challenge - Closed For Now"  music > poem
"Invalid Item"  scififan as many as u like, 15 lines or less Zm?

SONGS for "Barrel of Monkeys" 

My artist is Dimash Kudaibergen. (born 1994, Kazakhstan)

1. "Dimash 1 SOS d'un terrien en détresse" 
2. "Dimash 2 "Autumn Strong"" 
3. "Dimash 3" 
4. "Dimash 4" 
5. "Dimash 5" 
6. "Dimash 6" 
7. "Dimash 7" 
8. "Dimash 8" 
9. "Dimash 9" 
10. "Dimash 10" 

Songs I'm considering:

SOS d'un terrien en détresse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpoSskAVrPc (Linor Oren)
Ogni Pietra
Sinful Passion
Confessa and Diva Dance
Love is like a Dream
Opera 2
Autumn Strong 秋意濃 (Qiū yì nóng) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmeFKorib2o (Alfredo Castro)
Hello
Daididau
Adagio
Love of Tired Swans
The Show Must Go On.
Besame mucho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOMlzOsbhck
"Niña de mis ojos" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qngEJUWHv-E
Dimash - Qaraǵym-aı https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilvUOOPRvE
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Song list: https://dimashdq.blogspot.com/p/dimashs-song-list.html

6:30 and 72 degrees, but feels warmer. Walked to the store and bought groceries. Packpack was full and a bit heavy. Hard coming up the stairs.


SEPTEMBER 2

This is the best I can do. Please email me if there's an issue and I'll explain.

Ancestralhome บ้านบรรพบุรุษ

therewereflowerslotsofflowersandhaysweethaywewanderedthroughthemeadowsbymoonlight
vanishedamongtheflowersbydaytherewereflowerssomanysweetflowersyoupickedabouquetof
goldensunshinewoveawreathplaceditonmyheadlikeacrowniwashappybutweallgrowupandnow
yousayyoucannotseemedonotfrowninyourdreamsyouwillknowmefromafariwanderamong
thefallenpetalsinthemeadowofgoldenstars

The English above is a poem. It may be even harder to parse than prose. I took out the space between words for a reason. The following is an approxiamate in Thai. Thai has no capitalization or punctuation. There is no space between words. There's only a space between phrases or sentences. This is how it normally looks! May be a puzzle to English speakers but it's actually easier to parse as vowels mark word boundaries and only certain consonant clusters are allowed.

มีดอกไม้ ดอกไม้มากมาย และหญ้าแห้ง หญ้าหวาน เราเดินผ่านทุ่งหญ้าด้วยแสงจันทร์ หายไปท่ามกลางดอกไม้ในตอนกลางวัน
มีดอกไม้ ดอกไม้หวานมากมาย คุณเลือกช่อแสงแดดสีทอง สานพวงหรีด วางไว้บนศีรษะของฉันเหมือนมงกุฎ ฉันมีความสุข
แต่ เราทุกคนต่างก็เติบโตขึ้น ตอนนี้คุณบอกว่าคุณไม่เห็นฉัน อย่าทำหน้าบึ้ง ในฝันของคุณคุณจะรู้ฉันจากฟาร์
ฉันเดินเตร่ท่ามกลางกลีบดอกไม้ที่ร่วงหล่น ในทุ่งหญ้าพันดาว

ในทุ่งหญ้าพันดาว (in the field of a thousand stars)
can only be parsed ใน ทุ่ง หญ้า พัน ดาว (nı thùng h̄ỵ̂ā phạn dāw)

ใน the vowel precedes 'n'.
ทุ่ง the vowel is under 'th' and the low tone above.
หญ้า too complicated for me to explain as I'm learning but ห cannot end a word; it marks 'h' or high tone.
พัน two consonants, short vowel above the 'ph'.
ดาว the vowel 'a' falls between two consonants and าว is possibly pronounced 'ao'.

After noon. Warming up. Went out and saw friends. It's been ages since I saw Parris and Nancy.

Used my new computer but might still return it.

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