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In Which July has days of Apathy

Good afternoon, dear friend, reader of this post! I wish you a happy Sunday! How are you, today? How is the weather? Hope you are okay, the temperature is mild, and all the best! As for me, one has better days than other ones. There is the true necessity of proceeding one careful step at a time. I did have some bad situations, specially concerning my mind and my lamentations, but I also had stable ones... I am happy that I managed to work on some doodles the past few days. I did have a job interview this Wednesday, but that went nowhere. Been trying not to burn out on my favorite hobby, which is videogaming, not entirely being successful at it. I am thrilled in seeing Victoria 3 still receiving good recognition and coverage over their latest patches, but at times I open the game more compulsively than in desire to play. That hurts. Other games, such as Anno, and Sims 3, that have the first returned to my repertoire, the other entirely replaced the other Sim game in my gaming circuit, m...

In Which We Open The Blog's Birthday Week!

Hello, dear reader of this post! Welcome in to this Blog's Birthday week! How awesome is that? As a way to celebrate, I want to do a stream on the 8th doing some art for the blog, and perhaps I may do a stream today as well, even if I'm not sure what I'll be doing! Maybe even more art, because art is awesome! Speaking of Art, I'd like to take this moment to bring to light yet again one of my favorite composers: Gabriel Fauré. The works I've heard of him have such a soft touch that really is capable of comforting one's bad day! I brought Sicilienne in September 2018 if I'm not mistaken, but I'd like to bring it again, because that was almost 4 years ago, and I don't think it's worth scrolling down to so long ago. But I also want to bring to light another piece by him: Après un Rêve! Both those compositions are listened bellow!

Not only a distinguished man, he also had quite a lovely moustache!


Après un RĂŞve - Après Un Reve on Youtube (the video features the spoken words of this piece, that I've no idea it had in the first place! The more you learn)

Sicilienne - Sicilienne on Youtube (Orchestral version, featured in Civilization 5)

I did spoke about Sicilienne before, but I can't stress enough what a strong impact it had in me, as I played Civilization 5, the last game of the franchise so far that really introduced me to some wonderful classical music. The precedent for that was set by Civilization 4's wonderful choices, though not too accurate, but for imagination it really doesn't have to be! I am truly rejoiced to have reached such a point on this publication, I mean, 4 years and more than 450 posts! It is a commitment I'm not used to having, at all! Speaking of commitment, I finished that drawing I was working on, finally, and I'd love to share it with you guys!

It is an absolute joy to finish yet another massive undertaking, drawing buildings is not easy! To be fair, drawing is anything but easy, even my cartoony, childish style took years to mature somehow, and I'm yet to be comfortable with straight lines, or perfect circles, and so on. My trace has improved immensely since 2014, or even 2018, that's very much so, but I am yet to learn and practice and create a great deal more, if God wishes me to keep on doing it. I haven't written much on the first post of celebration of 4 years of blogging, but I think I brought something to light, and that is the music of Fauré, a wonderful composer. Both a traditionalist and an innovator, a kind gentleman who managed to be widely celebrated even in his long life, such is the power of an musical ear and a gentle heart. He is indeed a good representative of the Divagation Store, the one we stand right now! So, I believe this is it for today! But this week we will celebrate! Hopefully I'll be back, if not tomorrow, real soon with stuffs for our enjoyment and wanderness!

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