[…] at rare intervals, when the sun broke forth wholly free, the glacier was seen from shore to shore with a bright array of encompassing mountains partly revealed, wearing the clouds as garments, while the prairie bloomed and sparkled with irised light from myriads of washed crystals.

By this we mean each song first must be stageworthy and then must add to the picture of yourself which you are trying to paint for your audience.

I declared to everyone that I would concentrate on selling, not on recruiting, and build my downline slowly over time.

Flotsam is “floatsome,” cargo or wreckage found floating on the surface of the ocean or goods seen to float up from the hull of a wrecked ship.