Kind Words to get you started

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I've written about finding inspiration in music, as have my fellow writers at writersvibe.  Today, to get back into the habit of providing a weekly writing prompt, I offer this musical treat from the Internet Archive--Geeshie Wiley's Last Kind Words.  And if you're a writer more inspired by the visual, you might find a story growing from the photograph above.  Together, the two send me back almost a century and into the resilient spirit of childhood.   

Joshua Bell

Yesterday I attended a performance by Joshua Bell.  My last-minute tickets landed me in the second row, where I could see his shifting expressions--the almost grimacing tightness around eyes melting as the cadence mellowed.  I could hear his breath flow into the music.  Sometimes I'd realize I wasn't seeing him at all but I'd gone off somewhere, following the music into dreamed-up worlds.  Sometimes I'd wonder what he experienced as he played.  I supposed he was wholly in the moment--in the music--just as I lose myself in writing on those days when the writing flows.

 Though it's very different from yesterday's performance, I like this take on "Eleanor Rigby".  Have a listen and jot down the images that come to mind.