2323 – Sunday Digest: The Week in Review

Wildfires dot the northern landscape, dry conditions and an abundance of debris on the forest floor fueling burns that are raging out of control. Hundreds of miles away the sun is all but blotted out and the smell of smoke hangs heavy in the suburban air…

Sounds like one of Fandango’s story starters but it isn’t. It was actually the scene over many eastern cities from Toronto to New York as some 200+ wildfires burned across Northern Ontario and Quebec.

As the hellfires raged on it became increasingly apparent that the response from our cities and towns in the path of the smoke may have been blown out of proportion. That seems to be the norm in today’s world. For example, Nate’s baseball was cancelled on Tuesday, the first wave of the smoke storm to pass through, due to air quality concerns however by Thursday all the hype had died out and even though the air quality was worse than Tuesday the games went on. Even a joke I shared about the cancellation on the team chat drew gasps from outraged parents. Really, all I said was,

Like all things, the smoke blew over and everything returned to normal.

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This week in music I’ve headed back to 1984. The Human League was known for lush synth-pop tracks with 80’s staples like Don’t You Want Me and (Keep Feeling) Fascination. I’ve reached back for something that was less successful but arguably stands the test of time better than the band’s more commercially successful works. It was rumoured that the band had a no-guitars rule, it was the 80s and they were a synth band after all. Whether that was true or not I don’t know but if it was, breaking that rule was a great idea for this week’s track – The Lebanon. The song was written about the civil war that raged on in Lebanon in the early 1980s.

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The week in review…

Brand Management
The future of A.I. from Paula at Light Motifs II. Hope there is a wife model too!

In the Music Which Touches My Mind
An exploration of the connection between emotion and music by written by Rockstar Girl at Is It Real or Fantasy.

Our Party Platform
A fitting piece by Fandango at This, That and the Other considering the planet appears to be burning to the ground! Probably pie in the sky to think politicians will change though.

Inkwell
A powerful poem written by Rebecca at Is It Real or Fantasy

A Thorny Problem
Maybe they used the same A.I. Generator for the campaign idea? Written by the business-savvy Sadje at Keep It Alive.

No responses to this great image. I am going to keep it up/ reissue it for another week and see what happens.

More highlights from Greg’s Blog…

T-Shirt Wisdom Wednesday | You’ll need your wits about you for this one!

Creative Writing Monthly (2307) | The inaugural post for the new Creative Writing Monthly challenge. Get your submissions in before the end of July.

Empire In Decline: The New America | Some observations of America post-Trump, from an outsider!

Around the Blogosphere…

Next week…

Five Word Weekly and Four Line Fiction, Have a great week everyone,

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