<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Darla Quinn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Songs that Speak from the Heart]]></description><link>https://www.darlaquinn.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:05:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.darlaquinn.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently Writing the Song Was the Easy Bit]]></title><description><![CDATA[I thought writing songs was supposed to be the difficult part. Then I released one and discovered I was also expected to tell people about it. Repeatedly. This, it turns out, is not my natural habitat. I can happily spend hours with a guitar playing the same few chords over and over again. I can rewrite one line fifteen times because one word doesn’t quite feel right. I can record something, listen back, change my mind, change it back again and somehow convince myself that this is all...]]></description><link>https://www.darlaquinn.com/post/apparently-writing-the-song-was-the-easy-bit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8019513c91352534922e56</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:50:08 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>darlaquinn2001</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Bought a Double Bass. This Was Probably a Mistake]]></title><description><![CDATA[I Bought a Double Bass. This Was Probably a Mistake. I’m not entirely sure when “it would be nice to play double bass again” became “I should buy a double bass.” But apparently it did. I found one for sale and, rather than doing the sensible thing and thinking about it for a few days, I went to see it. That was probably my first mistake. Because once I’d played it, I was obviously going to buy it. Which led to a problem I had somehow failed to consider until that exact moment: How do you get...]]></description><link>https://www.darlaquinn.com/post/i-bought-a-double-bass-this-was-probably-a-mistake</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a801727071732fdf9d2bcfc</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:42:02 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>darlaquinn2001</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>