{"id":14371,"date":"2017-05-12T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=14371"},"modified":"2017-05-12T20:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T00:24:37","slug":"5-friday-faves-beyond-the-guitar-recognizing-doublespeak-on-distraction-uncelebrated-moms-and-colored-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=14371","title":{"rendered":"5 Friday Faves – Beyond the Guitar, Recognizing Doublespeak, On Distraction, Uncelebrated Moms, and Colored Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On this quiet, rainy Friday morning, I’ve looked back on another week of days. Days that can transform our thinking as we brush shoulders with people like us and not so much. Days that introduce different ways of thinking that require us to check our own. Days that arrest us with their beauty and days that move us to\u00a0note beauty where it\u00a0seems lacking…but it isn’t. Here are five of my favorite things of this week.\u00a0Your thoughts, please?\u00a0In the Comments below.<\/p>\n

1) Beyond the Guitar <\/strong>–\u00a0Over the last few months, I have\u00a0discovered a\u00a0strange dichotomy in my experience of video games and beautiful music. In my mind, those two things did not exist together. I was wrong. Not a big fan of video games, I am now drawn to the music of many. Thanks to the arrangements of classical\u00a0guitarist Nathan Mills<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0His most recent arrangement and YouTube posting<\/a> of\u00a0Yearnings of the Wind <\/a>composed by Yasunori Mitsuda<\/a> is hauntingly beautiful. This song is from the music score of popular video game\u00a0Chrono Trigger: 600 AD.<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: Beyond the Guitar, Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n

His arrangement\u00a0begins almost like a\u00a0melody you would find opening a turn-of-the-century music box. Pure and lovely. Then it moves to a romantic rendering of\u00a0Mitsuda’s piece, such that you might hear in the background of a small caf\u00e9 in Italy.\u00a0\u00a0Just wow!<\/p>\n

Funny thing: I love this piece and have not one bit of sweet nostalgia from playing this game…as so many will have growing up with this game.<\/p>\n

Listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n