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It's impressive to see the big ones in person. It takes them about 70 years to get 6 feet tall. They can live to be 150 and weigh over a ton. Seeing how the sun reflects off of the stone cliffs at sunset is neat too (Arizona). And how many stars you can see at night.

I don't miss the desert (I'm made for the cold), but there are fascinating things about it.

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Show some love to a big bird, and the light is amazing too.

Ohhh yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

There are different ones for different kinds of writing (general, academic, journalism, and more). Chicago Manual of Style is one of the general ones. It's good, and considered authoritative, but you have to buy a copy or an online subscription.

A free one that I like is Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab from a university). It's easy to understand and has good info.

Fascinating. It almost seems like it would be a liability having a hole to your lungs right in the middle of your tongue. But I guess it works when you can just swallow your food whole and maybe don't even have to drink water (?). Maybe a short path to the lungs is helpful for flying.

The title picture is amazing, both the mom's expression and the fluffy chick that's all mouth. Do you happen to know what the hole in the roof of their mouth is? At least it looks like a hole.

Interesting and pretty carvings. I've never seen anything quite like that. Would love to be able to go there someday.

A light swoosh is a good way to put it. You can hear it a little bit when they take off and land, but otherwise it's really quiet. They're impressively big up close.

It looks so pretty like that. The eagle owls are striking too. Their orange eyes don't stand out as much as you might think.

That's an interesting piece, and what a tempo. I had forgotten that Bach (CPE anyway, I forget about JS and the others) wrote those really short piano pieces. Seems like they would take quite a bit of skill to play.

I like the style of the channel you linked. Direct, no fluff, lots of useful info. The kind of thing it's getting harder and harder to find, unless you already know about it. I watched one of his videos on Für Elise. That's one of the first songs I remember hearing on the piano, and the first one I tried to play.

I originally just wanted a cheap-ish keyboard so I could learn the pitches for singing. That's really what I'd love to learn. But the piano is starting to win me over.

What song are you working on? I'd be curious to look for the sheet music on Musescore and try to look for the things you mentioned. It's one thing to read about it, and another to sit down and try to read/play through it yourself. And then it's usually easier to hear in other songs too.

Have you learned about this just from piano lessons, or are there other places (online or otherwise) that you go to learn or get inspiration?

Ohhhh. That makes sense and answered one of my other questions too (how do you change keys). There's probably a lot more to learn about that too, but for now I'm just happy that that clicked. Sometimes you just need the right explanation:)

I was going to write more, but I've been up way too long and I gotta go conk out.