Powerpoint Slides for Everyone - Week 6

Here is this week's powerpoint (or similar presentation program) image.  I'm trying to make one a week to share.  I'm using them in our church services, but you could use them for homework assignments, business presentations, desktop backgrounds, or whatever.

I only ask that you share them freely.  And that you let others know that you found them here.

And here's a link to the previous images.

Picture Day at Xantanlua Elementary

Glort never liked this photo.

I Will Not Stumble Again...

A few days ago I posted a poem I wrote based on Psalm 62- I Will Not Stumble (Not Greatly)
This is music to go along with it.



Feel free to download this and to share it with a friend.  You can also check out some more of my music here.

I used a few sounds from the Freesound Project

Rhythm maker 16
Rhythm maker 31
Dynag3 stretched
The Yeti 01 
The Yeti 48
The Yeti 51
Stumble synth 1
Stumble synth 2 
Stumble synth 3 

Beowulf Hesitates

At the ocean’s edge

where cold grey waves
break upon sharp black stones
the knör ship waits to take us home.
We leave Hrothgar’s bloodied hall
having done our doom upon
the beast and his mother.

Our shields are cracked
our spears are splintered
and some of us
have felt death’s embrace
but Heorot
and all Hrothgar’s realm is saved.

But before we sail for Geatland
where we will enjoy the acclaim
our deeds have earned,
 a thought occurs
and I hesitate to board the ship,
And it is this:

The monster has been slain,
for his cruelty and his wrath
but I am like that son of Cain.
And man, each man, every man
must die. I am not immune.
The wyrms of death will come for me.

Music for the Stars

Sometimes I record a sound or a bit of a melody thinking that I'll use it in a song...and sometimes I don't use it.
Recently I recorded this little synthesizer noodle:



But I didn't use it.  So I shared it with the Freesound Project.

And now, someone has discovered it there and used it in one of their projects.   Bryant O'Hara has put together a space exploration themed song using (among other things) my stumbling synth.

Listen  to Sed veni, spiritus, Martia, nam Stellae.   ("We come, spirit of Mars, for the stars")