Music by Billy Vaughn, video by Gilaruna. Our dance instructor back in the sixties in Houston was about 6’2” and learning the tango from him was a challenge 😄.
“Blue Tango” 1952 #1
Simply Six Minutes
“What’s that dear? Oh I won’t forget, Charlie’s game starts at six, right? Yes, I’ll stop by for the team snacks, or I could make a snack here that’s more healthy, what do you think?” Jim had already left for his job—no answer received. He knew it would all be done, and done right. It always was, it was expected. “ Charlie! Time to get up! What would you like for breakfast sweetie?”
Sue put her hair up in a pony tail and washed her face, scrubbing herself awake. Look at those tired eyes she thought. Is that a wrinkle? Sue always judged herself in the morning, in a mirror with harsh light. She always wanted to look her best. It was expected.
She carefully applied makeup and combed her hair around her face. She dressed, checked her watch, knowing it was almost time for her volunteer job at the library. She wouldn’t want to be late, they always knew she would arrive on time, it was expected.
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https://christinebialczak.com/2022/02/08/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-02-08-2022/
3TC – Artiste
Joe always lived vicariously through his oldest son Jack. He too, secretly wanted to be an artist and his son’s dream had been accomplished. None of his roommates in the university could doubt Jack had the talent, even though they were tired of finding black ink stains in their dorm room, all sizes of brushes left to soak in the sink, and sketches piled on the shelves. At home, Joe marveled at his son’s ability and was happy to enjoy it as an observer, if not the actual artist himself.
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https://fivedotoh.com/2022/02/09/fowc-with-fandango-vicariously/#like-66789
One Liner Wednesday
“Banning books give us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.” Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
https://lindaghill.com/2022/02/09/one-liner-wednesday-the-stuff-you-make/
Word of the Day- Frankly
This phrase was quite controversial when Clark Gable uttered it in Margaret Mitchell’s screen adaptation of “Gone With the Wind” in 1939. Of course “bad” words have been used for eons but not in films for the general public.
https://cyranny.com/2022/02/09/frankly-word-of-the-day-challenge/#like-61355
MLMM Wordle #274
He wasn’t much of a conversationalist. Most of his ad-libs bordered on indiscriminate garble he intended to be off the cuff, but they knew the difference. Anything true he uttered was based on him staying in the middle, never trying to jiggle a vendors’ opinion. He could read their willingness to cooperate or not and knew how to press them into submission if they objected. No one on the street wanted to perish by not obeying the rules.
His fingertips fondled the apples in one grocer’s sidewalk fare, one by one, picked one up and chomped loudly. This action was a signal to the street vendors he wanted their cash quickly with no trouble. His employer had been fleecing the local vendors for years and DJ wasn’t about to cross him.
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Ronovanwites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt – Move and Step
move to the marching music
keep yourself in line
dVerse Poets Quadrille – Nibble
He darted in under the door
Freezing weather, he wanted more
Warmth my fire could provide
He didn’t even try to hide
I was startled, incredulous—
A mouse in my new house!
Cheese, crackers I fixed to nibble
Mousey thought were his own kibble.
https://dversepoets.com/2022/02/07/quadrille-145/#like-23657
Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge
wanting to set a good example,
for the youth to choose the light,
choose their faith over might,
but soldiers seemingly prepared for death,
ignored memories told by elders’ breath,
traveled on to save the oppressed.
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https://godoggocafe.com/2022/02/08/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-tuesday-february-8-2022/
Fandango’s Story Starter
This week’s Story Starter teaser is:
Eileen was hesitant to open the door leading up to the attic because she was afraid when she got up there she might find…
Some secrets her uncle had hidden. Suspicious of her uncle, who held the opinion the attic should be under guard because he was getting forgetful in his seventies. This was a curiosity to Eileen, even though he had been chosen to lead the country a few years before. However, the attic was hard to open without a special card key only her uncle held.
NPR news reported the next week what Eileen had found when she decided to pocket her uncle’s key card and investigate:
Fifteen boxes of White House records that should have been at the National Archives have been found at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. Keeping the boxes there violates the Presidential Records Act
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https://fivedotoh.com/2022/02/08/fowc-with-fandango-opinion/#like-66774
Hosted by Di at pensitivity101 Your three words today are:
HARD
CARD
GUARD
https://cyranny.com/2022/02/08/forgetful-word-of-the-day-challenge-2/#like-61347
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