Sing-along Café 2024-10-10

It was another lovely evening in the company of lovely people. We ate banana chocolate-chip muffins and sipped cinnamon spice tea, sang, talked, laughed and wondered at our wonderful world.

Our theme of home and family was a good one. There's so much to talk about with families and our roles in them, and what is a family, and how do we feel about home?

Here's a selection of the songs we sang and listened to:

Home by Michael Bublé
Take the Long Way Home by Supertramp
Our House by Madness
Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
She's Leaving Home by the Beatles
For the Beauty of the Earth by Brother K
Father and Son by Cat Stevens and by Johnny Cash
Loves Me Like a Rock by Paul Simon
Good Hands by Kylie Morgan
Rise Again by The Rankin Family
Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder

This next week, October 17th, we'll have fun with a Food theme! Which is also a big part of Thanksgiving, right?

I hope to see you all there on Thursday!

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