Connop’s contemporaries — reformers, thinkers, and clergy — continue their work with his influence close at hand. Conversations they once shared ripple through their decisions. His ideas become part of their own contributions to the changing world.

Reformers Who Walked Beside Him

His scholarship connects eras, cultures, and ideas — from ancient Greece to Victorian Britain. Students use his historical work as a bridge to understand civilizations long past, finding his writing a steady guide across time.

Bridges His Writings Built

Connop’s journey—from university halls to rural parishes—leaves a trail of influence stretching across regions and generations. Students walk where he studied; families gather where he preached. His footsteps remain not in stone, but in memory.

His Footsteps Remain

Young clergy and scholars read his letters, finding wisdom in words he wrote decades earlier. His counsel, bookmarked and reread, guides minds that will live long after him. The next generation benefits from his clarity, balance, and conviction.

Counsel for the Coming Age

In St David’s, people speak of the bishop who served with fairness and thoughtfulness. His measured leadership leaves a warm afterglow in the community — a sense that his presence shaped the diocese in ways both subtle and lasting.

Afterglow of the Bishop’s Chair

Families, clergy, and parishes across Wales remember the bishop who walked their roads, spoke in their chapels, and cared for their communities. His memory lingers in the landscapes — in hills, paths, and quiet lanes he once traveled.

Across the Valleys

The cycle concludes with a vision of a legacy still expanding. The triumph is gentle, patient, and enduring. Connop’s life—built on scholarship, fairness, and thoughtful leadership—continues to shape minds and hearts, long after the final page is turned.

The Triumph Unfolding

Connop’s methodical clarity becomes a lantern for those navigating complex moral and intellectual questions. His work offers structure and calm, encouraging thoughtful progress during moments of uncertainty.

Steady Lantern of Reason

“Hormones” is a powerful, introspective modern rock track about the body’s automatic reactions — the biochemical echoes of old experiences that still shape how we feel today.
It’s a song about the invisible forces inside us: adrenaline, cortisol, oxytocin, dopamine — all the signals that once protected us, but now sometimes pull us back into emotional worlds that no longer exist.
The narrator describes how a single word, look, or tone can unleash a hormonal response that doesn’t match the present moment.
His body reacts as if danger were still here, even though his mind knows he’s no longer living in the past.
The chorus expands with emotional weight:
hormones can drag him down, make wounds louder, or freeze him in old reflexes — but they can also give strength, warmth, and hope.

The body isn’t just the place where trauma lives; it’s also the place where healing begins.
The second verse opens into softness, showing the other side of biology:
how being held releases warmth,
how success sparks lightness,
how a smile or a kind word can shift the entire emotional landscape.

The bridge delivers the central insight:
maybe it isn’t the world that triggers him —
maybe it’s an inner system still fighting a long-gone battle.
And the path forward is not fighting the body,
but teaching it what is true today.

By the final chorus, the message becomes clear:
hormones influence him, but they do not define him.
He is more than his pulse, more than his blood chemistry, more than his old fear.
He can learn to understand his body — and write new stories into it.

“Hormones” is an emotional conversation between a man and his own physiology —
a song about reclaiming control, compassion, and truth inside the very system that once overwhelmed him.

Hormones

Before Your Name is a slow, lyric-driven folk / alt-country ballad about late-diagnosed autism - finally finding a name for why you always felt like “a shadow in a crowded room.”

It’s built around close acoustic guitar and an intimate baritone vocal, more confessional poem than radio single: years of feeling half-present, the ache of every night “halfway through,” then the slow work of learning to sit with what’s true and let each night run fully through.

[LYRICS]

I was a shadow in a crowded room
A face among my closest few
Before your name, I never knew
Why every night felt halfway through

If only dawn would heed my calling
As I beg the sun to sleep
So every thought, awake or dreaming
Is left to brew, then slowly steep

Oh, sweet unhurried heart of mine
Do learn the dark and choose to shine

So go on now… just choose to shine

I am no shadow in a crowded room
Not just a face among a few
I learned to sit with what was true
And let each night run fully through

Oh, sweet unhurried heart of mine
Oh, sweet unhurried heart of mine

Before Your Name ❤️ For The Ones Unseen, Autistic Hearts

Ich schreibe, was ich denke, fühle und erlebe. Schreiben hilft mir, Erinnerungen einzuordnen und ihnen Klarheit zu geben. Wenn Gefühle eine Melodie bekommen, entsteht etwas Wunderbares – eine Botschaft, die direkt ins Herz geht.

Für mich ist es ein Ausgleich, ein Stück Selbsttherapie. Die Texte sind ehrlich und frisch aus dem Herzen. Und wenn ich damit jemanden berühre, der genauso fühlt wie ich, freut es mich umso mehr.

Da ich selbst nicht gut singen kann, nutze ich KI für die Melodie und die Stimme. Ich bin dankbar für diese Möglichkeit, meinen Gefühlen Ausdruck zu verleihen.

Viel Freude beim Hören 🥰

Gruß, Marco Memory

PS: Ehrliche Kommentare sind willkommen – aber bitte keine Angebote, ich kaufe nichts.



I write what I think, feel, and experience. Writing helps me sort out memories and bring them clarity. When feelings find a melody, something wonderful is created – a message that speaks straight to the heart.

For me, it’s a balance, a bit of self-therapy. The lyrics are honest and straight from the heart. And if they touch someone who feels the same way I do, it makes me even happier.

Since I can’t sing well myself, I use AI for the melody and voice. I’m grateful for this opportunity to give my feelings a voice.

Enjoy listening 🥰

Best, Marco Memory

PS: Honest comments are always welcome – but please no offers, I’m not looking to buy anything.

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I’ve always lived at the crossroads of music and poetry — where feeling becomes form, and melody turns memory into meaning. Whether it’s a lingering jazz note, a well-placed rhyme, or a shift in tempo that tells a deeper story, I’m drawn to that quiet magic where art reflects life with a little more style.

My roots are in classic music — the kind that doesn’t chase the moment but lingers with you long after the last note. Over time, that love expanded into poetry writing and jazz — especially the kind that swings, speaks, and smirks all at once. Jazz, to me, isn’t just a genre; it’s a personality. A conversation. A little tilt of the head and a grin that knows more than it says.

When I set out to create an album, it’s rarely just a collection of songs. I approach it like a personal playlist — one that drifts and flows as if the entire tracklist were one long, uninterrupted piece. Each track leans into the next, shifting mood, pace, or voice, but always carrying the same thread of feeling. I want you to listen the way I do — not as a shuffle of moments, but as a cinematic arc. One breath that lasts an hour.

Lyrically, my work is rooted in lived experience. Sometimes it’s obvious. Other times it’s just the skeleton of a memory, dressed up in wit, irony, or longing. I draw from real-life events, then let the poet in me twist, stretch, or sweeten them to taste. Depending on the tone of the album — playful, romantic, nostalgic, or something in between — I try to keep the emotional truth intact while giving it a fresh coat of creativity. A little humor where it fits. A deeper dive where it hurts.

My newest jazz album continues this tradition — short-lined swing tracks, conversational duets, and tongue-in-cheek storytelling. It’s an homage to late-night alleyway ballads, rooftop serenades, and train station goodbyes — all bound together with a sense of charm and cohesion. Each song is its own little scene, but together they tell a story — one you can revisit with each replay.

Thanks for stopping by my profile. I hope you find something that earns a spot on your repeat-play list — a melody, a lyric, or a moment that feels like it was written just for you.

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