Today's prompt, The Music of Failure, was offered by a student in my Weds group this morning and boy did it get us singing on the page! This response comes from Amber Stoner, whom I have been writing with for 10 years. I am blessed with her heart, smile, friendship, wisdom, musicality, generosity, and the many countless gifts offered weekly in her writing. Thank you Amber!💙
The Music of Failure
The music of failure sounds like waaa-waa. The first note followed by that lower thudding note. Is it scratchy, is it quiet? Does it chime or rhyme? Does the music of failure bring us closer together or drive wedges of clanging cymbals (symbols?) between us? Is it loud, is it cowbell, is it a crying, a wailing a gnashing of teeth? Does the music of failure ripple across the world, does it amplify or deaden when the waves of failure hit other waves of failure? Is the music of failure like the static we used to see on tv's or the radio stations we tried to tune in using the knob on old radios? Does the music of failure require a player or it is naturally-occurring? Does it emanate effortlessly or is the music of failure wrenched from wretched bodies plant, animal, mineral? Does the music of failure harmonize with the music of success? Do they cancel each other out or run parallel, never intersecting? Can I choose to listen or choose to learn or choose to redefine the music of failure? Is it in a majorly minor key or a minorly major key? Does it race along in cut time or plod along in largo? Can we turn the volume up or turn the volume down?
Can we learn to dance our own spectacular rhythm in the music 9f failure?
Thank you, Rox!
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As is your writing and your spirit in my life! Love, Rox
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