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Standing Outside the Fire

Oh I love me some Garth Brooks! I started listening to Garth about my Senior year of High School. Lyrically he's got some great songs and musically, well, I'll confess now...I love a good dose of country music!

I have this memory of the summer after my High School graduation at work and the area where I worked we had the country music station on and every so often - probably when Boot Scootin' Boogie would come on - one of my co-workers would get up and do this dance that was hysterical. White boy trying to bring forth any kind of rhythm from his bones! AHAHAHAHA!

I love many of Garth's songs - it's hard to pick just one so expect to see him show up again in the next year! This song I love because of the challenge to live life fully and without fear of risks. Living life in a bubble isn't really a life lived. And when I saw the actual video for this song I was moved - I can think of a lot of inspiring people and those kids and adults who go above and beyond what this world says they can or should do inspire me to hop into the fire myself and begin to really live life!

Standing Outside the Fire

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