Loose Leaf Notes

1. The first thing Joe said to me Monday morning was, “I just dreamt my dream house.” Duh. Of course it was a dream house because he dreamt it, we later realized.

2. I recently sent my sister Kathy the picture above of the rug she braided me and our new kitchen furniture with a caption that read “How do you like me now?”

3. A couple of years ago I sent her a picture of baby Liam on the same rug playing with pots and pans and a caption that read “See what a good life your rug is having.”

4. Liam was four yesterday. I called him up and asked, “What special day is this?” “It’s my brr-ay!” he answered. See how sweet he is and how cooperatively he and his brother Bryce play HERE.

5. It must be fall because the hens have stopped laying, the first woodstove fire has been lit and the annual Kind at the Pine Halloween Costume Party is circled on my calendar.

6. Quote seen on Facebook – Writer’s Block: When your imaginary friends won’t talk to you.

7. When my son Josh was little he had an imaginary friend named Tommy. After a long time had passed without him mentioning his friend, I asked him what happened to Tommy. “Oh, he got born, mom,” Josh answered.

8. Life is such a whirlwind that I think the word “world” should be spelled “whirled.”

9. And maybe weather should be spelled whether, as in whether or not?

10. What do you wake up thinking about? What is your beautiful question? What surprises you when you sit in silence and practice self-awareness? What is your struggle and how has it served you? What makes you shake to talk about? What makes you break out in a spontaneous smile? Those are just some of the questions I ask myself before our women’s dialogue circle check-in.

11. Years ago I had a favorite claw-legged Victorian couch that I had reupholstered from purple to green, but then I lost it in divorce. Later, I saw it in a dream being lifted high in the air by a crane.

12. Last week the students at Springhouse Community School, the school that my husband co-founded, performed at the Floyd Radio Show, doing a multi-media presentation of narrative, crankie puppetry and song. It was based on an interview they did with a local farmer who recently put his farm in a conservation easement to assure it would remain as farmland. In telling his story, the farmer shared that he was drafted during Vietnam, but before going to war, he traveled the country, saying, “I figured if I was going to die for my country, I might as well see it.” He also said, “The war took the fun out of me.” See HERE.

13. Speaking of art: How many light bulbs does it take to illuminate one fantastic art installation? The answer is HERE. And it’s worth the trip or click.

_______Thirteen Thursday