13: News to Muse
1. After an earthquake, a hurricane and a fall that fractured my arm, I’m kinda glad last week is over.
2. Two under-the-radar Floyd blogs with a focus on sustainability and simple living are HERE and HERE.
3. I like to round numbers up when it comes to time, unless, of course, it’s my birthday.
4. It’s often too early but hardly ever too late. ~ Said to my friend Katherine when she called me at 10 p.m.
5. The whole time I was interviewing local vegetable farmer Gladys King, and working on THIS story for All About Her, I kept calling her Gladys Knight.
6. I hadn’t been paying much attention to the weather news in the lead up to the recent hurricane, so when I read an email about my friend Bob’s party being cancelled because his girlfriend “Irene” wouldn’t cooperate the first thing that came to mind was, ‘I didn’t even know Bob had a girlfriend.’
7. During the Virginia 5.9 earthquake I couldn’t explain why the chair I was sitting on in front of the computer began to tremble. Then, when the lights started to rattle and the whole house shook at its core, I thought Joe had decided to move the refrigerator and that he dropped it. Meanwhile, Joe was out on the porch working and thought our resident bear had gotten into the house and was stomping around and trashing it.
8. Most poetic Google search that landed someone on my blog this week: happy girls waiting in open sky.
9. Looking up the etymology of the word “koan” while writing THIS poem, I came across this: “Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind. One said, “The flag moves.” The other said, “The wind moves.” They argued back and forth but could not agree. The Sixth Ancestor said, “Gentlemen! It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is your mind that moves.” The two monks were struck with awe.” – The Mumonkan Case 29, translation by Robert Aitken
10. Not just one, but two recent studies have concluded that watching TV can have serious repercussions. If you’re over the age of 25, every hour spent in front of the TV cuts 22 minutes off your lifespan. That can equate to five years’ worth if you watch TV six hours a day. TV watching has also been linked to aggression and obesity in children and has been shown to increases the risk of Attention Deficit Disorder because it overstimulates and rewires the young developing brain, causing damage to neural pathways. More HERE.
11. Listen to what Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, had to say about Dick Cheney’s new book: ‘This is a book written out of fear, fear that one day someone will “Pinochet” Dick Cheney,’ says Wilkerson, alluding to the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested for war crimes. Wilkerson also calls for George W. Bush and Cheney to be held accountable for their crimes in office. ‘I’d be willing to testify, and I’d be willing to take any punishment I’m due,’ Wilkerson said.”
12. Most people wanted to know what happened when they saw my arm in a sling. I’m not much for fiction, because I think the truth is more interesting if told right, but I couldn’t seem to make the boring story of how I tripped and fell interesting and got tired of telling it, so I began to use a line that a friend provided when he asked, ‘What’s the matter, Colleen? Do you have writer’s cramp?
13. I think I could also work the recent earthquake into my explanation.
More blogging 13 on Thursday HERE.
September 1st, 2011 7:33 am
4 and 6 hahah
September 1st, 2011 8:16 am
#9 gets a little confusing!! Some of the others crack me up!! and are so Colleen!! xo
September 1st, 2011 9:11 am
5, 6 & 7 made me laugh
8 made me smile
10 sad
and 11? well…did we expect any less from a master manipulator? Bah. dislike Cheney
Met Colin Powell once…a very nice man.
September 1st, 2011 10:15 am
I especially chuckled at number 5 because I’m a radio person who does a lot of interviewing, and I’ve had that name problem several times! 🙂
I enjoyed your musings. Hope you’ll stop by my TT..
Cindy @ Notes in the Key of Life
September 1st, 2011 6:12 pm
#6 haHAha
Enjoyed your varied list
Sorry you were injured. I was too, during the earthquake and also have yet to blog about that.
I’m intrigued by TV studies and its effect on us. I hadn’t noticed that one about our life span.
Glad I found your blog through TT. I forgot to mention in my earlier comment that I actually know someone who lives in your tiny town via my daughter who attended VT!
September 1st, 2011 6:16 pm
It’s a small town. Maybe I know them.
September 1st, 2011 6:43 pm
I’m so sorry that you got hurt! {{{Healing Vibes}}}
Hugs,
~Xakara
13 Things to Do
September 1st, 2011 6:53 pm
That is quite a week.
Hope your arm is healing well.
September 1st, 2011 9:30 pm
I hope you are OK. Irene has been a tough customer. May her old pal Katia go easier on us!
September 1st, 2011 10:56 pm
#10….LOL, LOL, LOL….That I lived to 80 is a frigging miracle, according to this….LOL….Well, I’m just going to keep on “watching tv”…I’m 80, and ready to “GO” if that is to be my lot……!
#11….”VICE” , as Dowd calls him, LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELP US AND SAVE US!!!!!!! He looks scarier and scarier as time goes on.
September 2nd, 2011 4:31 pm
Cheney needs to go down in a fall. But not a fall like you had, where you fell and broke your arm!
September 2nd, 2011 4:45 pm
Sorry to hear about your arm…and the bit about Bob’s girlfriend – Irene – just made me laugh!!!
September 2nd, 2011 5:45 pm
I’ve been out of town and tardy about visiting my favorite web spots. but here I am today!!! #5 made me laugh out loud. and then #6. I LOVE #8. where are they now???
ha ha ha #12. hands down, #9 is my fave.
what does hands down mean anyway?
hope your arm is healing nicely. and happy weekend to you.
September 5th, 2011 8:29 am
7. glad to hear it wasn’t too substantial there. a big bear indeed.
12. good one.
September 8th, 2011 7:29 am
Yes, my daughter told me it’s the smallest town she’s ever visited. One traffic light I think. However, I don’t know if she wants the family made public so I”m gonna stay hush. Just thought it is ironic you’re living there and out of all the blogs I found you there. (although, I used to read OOLOTH regularly yrs ago when I had a different blog, so I may have read your comments before on her blog)
September 8th, 2011 9:15 am
What’s OOLOTH?
September 10th, 2011 12:24 am
Maybe we should waterboard Cheney, then ask him whether or not he believes it’s torture. Yup, he definitely needs to be taken down. Now if only we could find a way to get rid of Sarah Palin…
September 10th, 2011 10:16 am
Thank you for the link!