Leaving yesterday behind

29 Monday Dec 2014

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… getting ready for countdown 2015

and having a cup of kindness yet… Happy New Year, my friends!

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When you tell me that you love me

10 Monday Nov 2014

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blind singers, Diana Ross

What they lack in sight, they make up in sound.

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Life happens

15 Monday Sep 2014

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Ace of Base, Starship, Taj Mahal

Anticipation. That’s the name of the game I am playing right now, and I’m rather enjoying it. Not knowing what will exactly happen in seventy-two hours just adds to the suspense. You see a friend I haven’t seen, nor had any contact with in twenty-six years is flying in from the Emirates to visit. Then we go to India, hello Taj Mahal, and see if we’re going to be inspired to put Paris next on the list. It’s been eight months of catching up. I have a feeling

‘Nothing’s gonna stop us now’

Isn’t it ‘A Beautiful Life’?

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The most glorious part of you

25 Monday Aug 2014

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Todrick Hall, Wizard of Ahhhs, Your Crowning Glory

Because they represent things that made, make, and will make me happy, I picked these songs.

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Surprisingly poignant

21 Monday Jul 2014

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Air Supply, Graham Russel, Russel Hitchcock

“Air Supply…?”

“Some of their lesser-known ballads are surprisingly poignant.”

– from The Wedding Date starring Dermot Mulroney and Debra Messing

Air Supply goes live in Bangkok next month. It would be fun to go see them again if I wasn’t working on the night of August 5th. I’m sharing one popular AS song and two of my favorites: She Never Heard Me Call and Don’t Be Afraid. I don’t think they often sing these songs in their concerts. I wish they did when I watched them in 2000. I can’t believe it’s been 14 years.

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Words get in the way

19 Monday May 2014

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Agnetha Faltskog, Dionne Warwick, Gloria Estefan

Women in music 60s thru the 80s – so many talents indeed. I narrowed my choices down to one from each decade, and here they are in order:

“Her Majesty of Melisma,” says The Top Tens, ‘no one can handle the treacherous key changes and time signature shifts of the Bacharach / songbook as can classy, cool sophisticated Dionne Warwick.’

” There were a lot of great female singers of the 70’s, but as far as vocal quality, control, and crystal clarity, Agnetha Faltskog is probably the best choice.” Here she is with the hit that showcased her vocal prowess –

And “one of the world’s best-selling artists,” Gloria Estefan is also ‘the most successful crossover performer in Latin music of all time.’ On a side note I find it interesting that she has a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in French. But Words… 🙂

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Moving forward

23 Monday Sep 2013

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Barry Manilow, Freddie Mercury, Roxette, Westlife

The heck I am.

After all the shock, the zombie mornings, the wallowing in self-pity, boring friends to tears subjecting them to ‘dramatic discussion’ over and over like a broken record, the whole nine yards.

So was it even ever love? Indeed it must have been.

But boy was I angry though luckily a coward in the face of a .45 revolver. “And the pain will make you crazy…” Freddie Mercury was so spot on.
Since I didn’t pull the trigger…

I learned to smile again. ‘You’ refers to a future someone. Hello, optimism.

So will you raise your glasses to moving forward? My God, how life rocks! Thank goodness for a wonderful thing called reason. And another thing called Divine Providence. Never again should anyone who was hurt by love go through hell.