<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[DOMINO]]></title><description><![CDATA[DOMINO]]></description><link>https://www.rocknrollpirate.com/blog-1</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:26:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.rocknrollpirate.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Growing Up Without Knowing the Music in My Blood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobody teaches a toddler to conduct an orchestra she can't yet name. Somebody just watches her do it and wonders where on earth it came from. Before I could talk in full sentences, I was already keeping time — a foot tapping under whatever table I was sitting at, fingers drumming against my leg without my permission, small hands conducting invisible orchestras through the living room like I already understood there was more to music than just listening to it. It was never only about rhythm....]]></description><link>https://www.rocknrollpirate.com/post/growing-up-without-knowing-the-music-in-my-blood</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6289ff59dc3f2805c3b200</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:46:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5a1c50_e188b1625c754b9c995d0765f62a20c4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Domino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ugliest Instrument I Ever Loved…]]></title><description><![CDATA[The hunger that had no name yet. The disc came off an old grain drill, most likely — one of those dish-shaped, rust-freckled discs that spend their whole working life half-buried in dirt, turning up soil nobody ever looks at twice. It wasn't flat like a regular sheet of scrap steel would be. It had a slope to it, curving down toward the outer edge into a shallow, cone-like dish — close enough in shape to the bow of a real cymbal that my brothers took one look at it and thought, that could...]]></description><link>https://www.rocknrollpirate.com/post/the-ugliest-instrument-i-ever-loved</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5cb47fe447e3bde58986d9</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:38:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5a1c50_1199589c3d884e55abd7dc03dd5bf1ca~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Domino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before He Knew I Existed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two lines on a piece of paper started a search that took forty-one years to finish. I've known I was adopted for as long as I can remember. There was never a single dramatic reveal in my house — my parents talked about it plainly, often, the way other families talk about the weather. It was simply a fact of my life, the way my address was a fact, or the color of my eyes. What actually split my life into a before and an after didn't arrive with any ceremony at all. It was just an ordinary...]]></description><link>https://www.rocknrollpirate.com/post/before-he-knew-i-existed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5be2ed5e7d848635e255e2</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:37:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5a1c50_867ebf39d5ad41728eb761c3cbacb112~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Domino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The First Time I Saw My Own Face]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some inheritances have nothing to do with blood tests. Mine came with rhythm. He'd flown in from New York to meet someone else that day, and she picked the restaurant — somewhere close to my house. We ate outside, on the terrace. When I arrived, he was already standing with his back to me. I learned later that was on purpose. He wanted to be facing away when I got there, so that turning around and seeing me for the first time would actually be a moment — staged, a little corny, entirely his...]]></description><link>https://www.rocknrollpirate.com/post/the-first-time-i-saw-my-own-face</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5a4c64980ce0b110d8f3c8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:33:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5a1c50_dbf8ade0df8e410a9b2052ffa22a2db7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Domino</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>