"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman

Do you want the MoM plate or the WoW plate?

1.  I share a birthday with Enya and the Ayatollah Khomeini.

2. It takes a long time to make 62 wishes.

3. For most of our years as friends, my good friend Alwyn would never tell me her age, but once she turned 80, a few years back, she bragged about it to anyone who would listen.

4. The true origins of Mother’s Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote a Mother’s Day Proclamation calling for women to stand up against the unjust violence of war through their roles as wife and mother, to protest the futility of their sons killing other mothers’ sons. More HERE.

5. I can always tell when it’s my birthday by what is in bloom. In Massachusetts it was lilacs. Here it’s Iris.

6. When I leave the house in a loud print top, doubt creeps in and I begin to feel like a phony. If the loud print top is made of polyester it would be enough to send me back home to change.

7. Years ago my friends and I decided that something was missing from the triple Goddess archetype – the Maiden, Mother and Crone –which symbolizes the stages of the female life cycle and of the moon phases. Because we live longer and don’t believe we are crones till we’re at least in our 70’s, we decided to embrace the idea of the Maiden, Mother, Matriarch and Crone.

8. The last of the packing comes down to one question / should I bring extra shoes or make room for a book / Guide to a Happy Life? / I’m still looking for a good Sinatra recording / because he was to your generation / what the Beatles were to mine / and music is a memory that doesn’t skip … The rest of this poem can be read HERE.

9. For my 60th birthday I soaked in a tub of weightlessness. Floating on what felt like a heated cloud of jiggling jello, I had a cold cloth on my forehead and someone was massaging my feet. I had dinner with a Scottish man who was at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-in for Peace, and breakfast with a renowned golf course architect and his wife. I sipped a St. Bernardus beer on tap in a pub with titled glasses that looked like they were falling over and tasted skate wing for the first time. Read the conclusion to my 60th birthday post HERE.

10. Maybe age is a clock to wake us from dreaming, or maybe it is the dream, like counting the number of pages in a book when we should be reading the story.

11. Top Ten Reasons to Ban Gay Marriage HERE.

12. If he’s good enough for Betty White … HERE.

13. The best “give them a piece of your mind” letter should go to Harper Lee when she stood up for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird after a school in Virginia banned it in the late 60’s for being “immoral.” She told them what she thought in no uncertain terms and with style and scathing wit that’s proved what a good writer she was. See HERE.

Thirteen Thursday

May 16th, 2012 colleen Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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