Deb, over at Nope, Not Pam, has this weekly challenge called A Letter a Week where she gives us a place, an emotion, an adjective, a verb, and an animal all starting with the same letter. Then she asks us to write a post using those items and the letter she has given us, which this week is the letter K.
I have a cousin who lives in Kentucky And in an act of incredible kindness He invited me to join him at The Derby “I think you’ll get a kick out it,” he said
I headed to Lexington, excited about going to Churchill Downs To see the famous horse races But when I got there he took me somewhere else
He drove me to an outdoor kickboxing ring To watch a man box a kangaroo “I’ll put my money on the kangaroo,” I said For a knockout in round three.”
The idea behind Who Won the Week is to give you the opportunity to select who (or what) you think “won” this past week. Your selection can be anyone or anything — politicians, celebrities, athletes, authors, bloggers, your friends or family members, books, movies, TV shows, businesses, organizations, whatever.
At the risk of being predictable, my Who Won the Week designation this week goes to the House Select Committee that is investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump’s MAGA-maniacis. The committee held the first of its public, televised hearings this past Thursday evening and it was must see TV.
Thursday’s hearing was the first in a series this month that will highlight the findings of the panel’s investigation, which included interviews with more than 1,000 people about how Trump and his team tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election on multiple fronts.
The committee played a compilation of some of the most disturbing footage from the January 6 attack. It showed some never-before seen material, including a birds-eye view footage from security cameras that showed the enormous pro-Trump mob as it started swarming the Capitol grounds.
The footage also showed how the crowd took its cues directly from Trump, with one rioter reading a Trump tweet on a megaphone for the other rioters to hear. In that tweet, Trump criticized Pence for announcing that he would not overturn the results of the 2020 election while presiding over the joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden’s win.
Supposedly 19 million people watched the prime time hearing on Thursday night and I can’t imagine how anyone watching could not have been moved and could have any remaining doubts whatsoever about the fact that Trump was behind a well-planned, organized, orchestrated, and deliberate attempt to interfere with the peaceful transition of power in the United States and to instigate what amounted to a seditious insurrection.
Unfortunately, Fox News decided to not cover the live hearing, and it’s Fox News viewers who really needed to watch it.
What about you? Who (or what) do you think won the week?
If you want to participate, write your own post designating who you think won the week and why you think they deserve your nod. Then link back to this post and tag you post with FWWTW.
Once again, Jill Dennison has written a post that is reblog-worthy. She poses the right questions that we Americans need to ask ourselves and to answer not in an ideological manner, but in a common sense, human manner. Please read her excellent post, think about her questions and what she has to say, and then ask yourself why it has to be this way.
Please leave you comments on Jill’s post.
We in this nation, around the globe in fact, are so divided that families have crumbled, friendships dissolved like a candy in hot water, marriages …
For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, Jim Adams once again looked to Melanie, at Sparks From a Combustible Mind, for the theme. Melanie suggested songs that incorporate Excitement, Pleasure, Sentiment, or Spirit. I immediately thought of the Bob Welch classic, “Sentimental Lady.”
“Sentimental Lady” was written by Bob Welch. Welch was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1971 to 1974, and Fleetwood Mac recorded this song on their 1972 album Bare Trees. It became a hit when Welch recorded it on his first solo album, French Kiss, in 1977. Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac sang backup on Welch’s solo version.
Welch’s 1977 re-recording of “Sentimental Lady” is the most well-known version of the song and was a solo hit for Welch. It was the first single released from his album and it reached the top 10 in both the U.S. Pop and Adult Contemporary charts. Unlike the original Fleetwood Mac version, which ran for four and a half minutes and had two verses, Welch’s solo version only had one verse in order to cut it down to less than three minutes for the final radio cut.
Welch explained in an interview that the song was referencing his first wife, Nancy, at the time he wrote it. In the song, he personifies the love of his life as a “sentimental, gentle wind [that is] blowing through my life again.” Welch died in 2012 at age 65.
Here are the lyrics to “sentimental Lady.”
You are here and warm But I could look away and you'd be gone Cause we live in a time When meaning falls in splinters from our lives And that's why I've traveled far 'Cause I come so together where you are
And all of the things that I said that I wanted Come rushing by in my head when I'm with you Fourteen joys and a will to be merry And all of the things that we say are very
Sentimental gentle wind Blowing through my life again Sentimental lady, gentle one
(All I need is you)
Sentimental gentle wind Blowing through my life again Sentimental lady, gentle one
Sentimental lady
Yeah all of the things that I said that I wanted Come rushing by in my head when I'm with you Fourteen joys and a will to be merry And all of the things that we say are very
Sentimental gentle wind Blowing through my life again Sentimental lady, gentle one
(All I need is you)
Sentimental gentle wind Blowing through my life again Sentimental lady, gentle one
(All I need is you)
All of the things that I said that I wanted Come rushing by in my head when I'm with you Fourteen joys and a will to be merry And all of the things that we say are very (all I need is you)
All of the things that I said that I wanted Come rushing by in my head when I'm with you Fourteen joys and a will to be merry And all of the things that we say are very
And is the 1972 Fleetwood Mac recording, for those of you you are interested.
It’s June 12, 2022. Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “subscribe.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.
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