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I remember that song. I'd love to have been a good dancer but I was shy about dancing. I was okay doing skating competitions and singing but dancing was something else. Somehow going to a place like that makes me want to dance.
Hugs and blessings back at you nborchardt.

Doggonit, nborchardt, now I'll have that song playing in my mind for the rest of the day!

Hahaha aknan - happens to me all the time. Hugs to you and nborchardt!!!

Blessings and joy to pixipixil, aknan, and aussie, and to all the Senior Puzzlers!

Thanks nborchardt. To you too. Nice being a senior but I'm a bit worried about graduation. Hope it's an uplifting one.

It will be the most uplifting beautiful moment in our lives.

AMEN nborchardt!!! Hugs.

I see you have a music icon nborchardt. Do you sing or play an instrument?

I sing. I studied music, mainly vocal, in college and was able to be a music teacher, which I loved. I still sing and will continue until my voice only brings grief instead of joy!! I love music, always have and always will.

I got my MSEd in music with voice as my major. I sang at church for many years as cantor and soloist and did a bit of music teaching also in school and privately. I liked teaching grammar school...got along great with the kids. The parents were another story. I don't give lessons any more, and I don't teach. For a while I was doing funerals at a local church and an occasional solo at Mass but the new music director won't let me solo. She says it's inappropriate. Humph. Well it wasn't for the thirty prior years I was doing it! They asked me to cantor b4 she came along but they only use volunteer cantors and that is insulting to someone with my credentials plus after spending 30 years of turning down all events on weekends because of cantoring I think a break from that is in order. I would still like to solo. Unfortunately I am hopeless on keyboard. I can play a bit but not enough to get a music director's job. My hands are tiny and are easily stressed out. I didn't go in to music until I was in my 40's. Now I'm pushing 74. I did do a Saturday Mass alone by playing guitar and singing. Folks were happy with me but the new priest wasn't. After 7 years there (4 before he arrived with an older priest who was a control freak but loved my voice )he did away with the position. I haven't tried to get a job since.
Since I don't have an undergrad degreee my sight singing skills aren't the best. I can figure it out in my head but can't hit the tarmac at takeoff speed without some time to suss out the tune first.
Too late now. I haven't the energy or stamina. I still practice voice 6 days a week for 45 minutes.
I was coloratura but now can only manage up to D above high C. My runs have gotten shabby too. Used to blaze thru the Mozart Alleluia. Now I go flat if I don't have an accompaniment.

I hear what you're saying about getting older. I still sing, but not so much in public anymore. I have people tell me I still sing better than they do, but I know what I used to be able to do. I will be 71 this year so the old vocal cords aren't quite what they used to be! But sing I will, alone, until I'm called to the next life!! Blessings, pixipixil!!

You, too, nborchardt. I get the same feedback but I miss my high range and the flexibility I once took for granted.

I just took up singing lessons a few years ago as I was approaching 70. Love it. Especially after believing I could not sing all my life. Recording hymns now for our on-line services.

How wonderful, nana. Sometimes singing makes me feel so free but on bad days it's like marching through thick mud.

Wow, you really know all of the words to that song. Hope you get there.

Having been to Sarasota it's a shame y'all didn't go to Sanibel Island and Captiva Island (they're right next to each other, ). Wonderful place. One of our favorites.

Good eye, pixi! Those rocks should be in shadow on this side, too. That photo's been 'shopped...Photoshopped. I don't mind that if it makes it beautiful. I do get irritated when they add whole mountainsides of fake trees though.

Good observation! Did not see that. Thanks!

I hate it when they make the colors so bright it looks psychedelic. I find with digital photos they almost always need tweeking but the challenge is to keep them looking natural.

Artificially bright colors bug me too, unless it's part of a statement. Many phones are programmed to add contrast and saturation. It's not really my thing though.

Time & same puzzle cut, arlenez.

That is what I thought too. What about pixipixil saying he/she used Hex (see below) and I used Classic?