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Music is an important part of my life, an essential element. Growing up my dad played in a Saturday night band and whole families attended the dance. He was talented, played by ear the piano, banjo, and fiddle. We all sang along and danced.
http://dversepoets.com/2023/02/20/quadrille-170-music-is-my-refuge/
Rising up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I’m back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive
So many times it happens too fast
You change your passion for glory
Don’t lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive
It’s the eye of the tiger
It’s the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he’s watching us all with the eye of the tiger
Face to face, out in the heat
Hanging tough, staying hungry
They stack the odds ’til we take to the street
For the kill with the skill to survive
It’s the eye of the tiger
It’s the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he’s watching us all with the eye of the tiger
Rising up straight to the top
Had the guts, got the glory
Went the distance, now I’m not going to stop
Just a man and his will to survive
It’s the eye of the tiger
It’s the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he’s watching us all with the eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger
Source: Musixmatch. Songwriters: Frank Sullivan / James Eye of the Tiger lyrics © Wb Music Corp., Sony/atv Melody, Easy Action Music
http://gmgblog.ca/2023/02/20/five-word-weekly-challenge-2308/
The money was good, too good he thought, but I can feign interest and react to her supposed allure again. Even in the dimming twilight, the slab of makeup in her attempt to appear beautiful turned him off. He would use his actor training, hoping to interpret the romantic anxious lover she wanted him to be.
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https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/slab-2/
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/three-things-challenge-m245/#more-93952 Your three words today are: REACT ALLURE FEIGN
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/rdp-monday-twilight/
https://fivedotoh.com/2023/02/20/fowc-with-fandango-attempt/#like-80281
1. I make a list but am usually tempted to add something if I’m in the store. Delivery makes it easier to resist.
2. I hate clothes shopping and even in store all sizes are different depending on brands so difficult to shop online. I like to feel the fabrics.
3. No. Actually I have a pair of sneakers, a pair of lace up boots and a big pair of snow boots. Inside I can wear fuzzy sheepskin socks because I don’t walk.
4. I enjoy going shopping if it’s for someone else, for example, a granddaughter.
Gratitude for the attitude of my daughter and family as they were two weeks without heat and it has been very cold and windy. We have experienced high winds with a storm on the way and on Saturday their new furnace was installed / just in time!
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/share-your-world-20th-february/#more-93989
My choice is the original Dolly Parton
If I should stay
Well I would only be in your way
And so I’ll go, and yet I know
I’ll think of you each step of the way
And I will always love you
I will always love you
Bitter-sweet memories
That’s all I’m taking with me
Good-bye, please don’t cry
‘Cause we both know that I’m not
What you need
But I will always love you
I will always love you
And I hope life, will treat you kind
And I hope that you have all
That you ever dreamed of
Oh I do wish you joy
And I wish you happiness
But above all this
I wish you love
I love you
I will always love you
I, I will always, always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Dolly Parton
https://the-bee-writes.com/2023/01/31/tomorrow-is-the-day-love-is-in-da-blog-2023-is-rolling-in/
https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-250/
I recently read that Trump had to take a competency test and part of it was a forum of five words he had to recite at a later time with precision and accuracy. It might have been at the height of his downturn in popularity, but even the smallest detail should have mattered. Later this self proclaimed prodigal son declared he passed with flying colors—of course his constant dressing of red, white and blue.
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https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/rdp-sunday-forum/
http://fivedotoh.com/2023/02/19/fowc-with-fandango-height/
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/. Your three words today are: PRECISION ACCURACY DETAIL
This week for Sunday Confessionals I would like you to create and write about moments of nature : those moments where you noticed the sky, heard the specific rustle of the leaves and similar.
I hear you out there, threatening my window panes, curling around each corner, sneaking under door jambs, seeking a cleft or crevice to enter. A wood stove crackles its defiance—“I will keep them warm, enter at your peril!” The wind just laughs as it thunders once more, stronger, against the glass, and frosts it with designs.
You don’t fool me I say, beauty will not beguile me to look closely. I will lock the shutters tightly and hide your art, roll up thick carpets against the edges of doorways, and put more logs on the fire. Whip and pound and roar your cold, mighty air, but you will not freeze me.
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/sunday-confessionals-notice-of-nature/
The Bag Lady 
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