TFJenkins

Learning how to be a grumpy old man. Get off my lawn. Also pianist, composer, writer, college music teacher, and Church Music Pastor.

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True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. C.S. Lewis https://t.co/l0PePJaE1q via @cnieuwhof

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We have two church positions available on our media team - IT/Video Production Director & Director of Audio Tech - Please spread the word and share this link with anyone who might be interested.
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Appreciate any names you can send our way!

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Cover reveal - my friend, @BradleyCaffeeauthor is about to release his new book: Sides. I got a preview copy and you can get yours soon - it's a great thriller/adventure - where an online game becomes reality! In Sides, you're either a predator or prey!

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I love Mondays! Am I weird?
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I just joined Substack Notes
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Ready for a #NewRelease ?? Get ready for #UnderFire the latest in the series #DefendandProtect. The next by @LynnHBlackburn! #WritingCommunity

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#writingtips "Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell (WRITE) about it." Mary Oliver #WritingCommmunity

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#mondaymotivation "All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes." Nikki Giovanni #WritingCommmunity

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Love taking cool quotes and using them as writing inspiration for my characters: "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments." Joseph Addison " #writinglife

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Show vs. Tell - even James Joyce got it: "The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." #Writer #writingtips

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"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." Albert Einstein - who knew that Al had words of wisdom beyond dropping Relativity on us?? #WritingCommunity #writerslife #InspirationalQuotes

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Another quote to hit me right between the eyes:
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." Winston Churchill
#WritingCommunity #writingadvice

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I took a bold step and gave my first F2F book proposal with a #onesheet and everything! Was asked to send in the first chapter.
Emily Dickinson said "Fortune befriends the bold." #bebold #WritingCommunity

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@95star Thanks for the #writerslift! I'm https://t.co/Z0kiH0AjbA with my WIP Symphony in Red. #cozymystery

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This works in real life as well as #fiction!
"If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens." Faye Welden #WritingCommunity

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#writingchallenge for today: Write something beautiful! "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty." Edgar Allen Poe.

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Speaking of the rules for creative writings and art: Claude Debussy: “Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.” #writing #WritingCommmunity

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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." Oliver Wendell Holmes.
I'm older but still learning the rules of writing! Know some good exceptions? #writing #writerscommunity #writingquotes

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My motivation for today: "It is well to fly towards the light, even where there may be some fluttering and bruising of wings." Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Anyone else feeling a bit bruised in your editing? #writing #WritingLife

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Nadia Boulenger was a french composer who taught Aaron Copland - Love her work and her influence. "The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion." #writing #songwriting #writinglife