History and My Story » Susan Boyle http://buell.edublogs.org Mary Lou Buell Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:38:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Living the Dream http://buell.edublogs.org/2009/04/16/living-the-dream/ http://buell.edublogs.org/2009/04/16/living-the-dream/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:17:59 +0000 buell http://buell.edublogs.org/?p=128 By the time you get to my blog over vacation you’ve probably already seen or heard about Susan Boyle and her performance on the British equivalent of American Idol.  Still….it’s just soooo good so I had to post.  Plus, she sang a Les Miserables song….if you see the You Tube version (which has disabled embedding) you can view the lyrics.  In the musical, Fantine sings this song at the beginning of play after her secret –that she has a daughter when she is not married — is discovered and she is fired from her factory job.  But really these lyrics can apply to anyone older who expected something different from life and no doubt Susan Boyle herself.   You won’t be in tears the way people my age are….but I think you will appreciate her passion and her talents–and never giving up on your dreams. 

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