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https://www.rpmchallenge.com/“We work not only to produce but to give value to time.” (Delacroix)Ten years ago I participated in the RPM Song Challenge: 10 songs in 30 days. I chose the theme of “Time” - (a fertile and elastic subject), for my inventions.  Included here are 4 songs from that creative surge.It is said that time moves more quickly the older one gets. My brain can’t compute that it’s been ten years since these songs popped into being; It seemed like a speck.I hadn’t heard these recordings since that time - they had been committed to little mini cards, and salted away in an obscure container. I’ve since moved, and I thought the files had been lost to the sands of…… well, you know.But, Eureka!  I remembered that I had logged entries into my diary, notating the precise location of each tune: (which card, the sequence of titles, and timings for each). And, they appeared! Talk about foresight, and good time-management… temporarily.So, in praise of our brief, yet glorious existence on this globe, allo