Flashback Friday Song of the Day - Heaven Is a Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle

I don't know, but lately The Handmaid's Tale has been prominently featuring specific songs in its episodes lately.  A couple of weeks ago it was Aunt Lydia singing Islands In the Stream during the time before the revolution, and last week it was this song by Belinda Carlisle that had a recurring spot in the episode, and that put it in my head ever since I saw it.  Here's Heaven Is a Place On Earth...

Song of the Day - Islands In the Stream - Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers

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I am back from Cali and just caught up on the latest episode of The Handmaids Tale, which very interestingly shared the story of Aunt Lydia before the dawn of Gilead.  Turns out she was a schoolteacher and in an odd way, a caring person.  For a moment there, it seemed as if the matronly leader of the handmaids, equally matronly before, was about to fall in love after a magical New Year's Eve with a gentleman.  That ended in disaster, but not before an odd karaoke version of this Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers classic.  Here's Islands In the Stream...