Thirteen Thursday: Spring Foolery
AKA: That’s the Ticket!
1. I’m a sucker for an online generator. When it comes to generators (like this ticket found at Tales from Creekistan), I’m like the kid in school who had to stick her hands up in front of the movie projector to make shadows on the screen when the lights went out.
2. Like a moth is attracted to a flame, my eyes go to the forsythia bushes in my yard. In the past week, I’ve photographed them from every angle at every time of day.
3. But now the forsythia is on its way out. My consolation is that the dogwood trees are about to bloom. As a young girl, I remember thinking that “dogwood” was a stupid name for a tree. I recently checked on how the dogwood got its name and discovered that the word dogwood comes from dagwood, from the use of the slender stems of very hard wood for making ‘dags’ (daggers, skewers).
4. Back in the year 1969 I went to many concerts at the old Boston Tea Party, a church converted to a club where we sat on the floor and watched light shows as the bands performed. I saw Led Zepplin before they were famous and Rod Stewart when he was lead singer of the Small Faces. My sister Sherry and I thought Joe Cocker had cerebral palsy because of they way he contorted himself when he sang. LOOK what I found!
5. You don’t need a ticket to get THIS inside glimpse into Floyd’s famous Friday Night Jamboree, thanks to my blogging friend Doug Thompson.
6. I’m psychic when it comes to blog comments. I often think about certain bloggers at the same time they are visiting my blog and leaving a comment, but I can’t tell if I’m having a premonition or if I am attracting the bloggers to visit because I’m thinking about them.
7. If I don’t feel my emotions during the day, they wake me at night. A few nights ago gratitude woke me up. I was feeling thankful for what fine adults my sons have grown into, and for the fact that they both have recently purchased their own homes. But what really caused my sense of gratitude to swell over the top was feeling how much it means to me that my husband, Joe, has volunteered long hours of his time to help both my sons work on their places.
8. Number 55 on my 100 Things About Me says: Sometimes I use a tarot deck. It’s like taking my psychic blood pressure.
9. Acting foolish is sounding better all the time. According to my Motherpeace tarot deck, the Fool represents the magical child within each one of us; the pure impulse that causes us to act, the infinite possibilities that exist with every moment of life.
10. Like poets, fools have played an important role in societies. Whether is be by way of the court jester or the Lakota Heyoka (aka the sacred clown), humor and satire has always been used to ask hard questions and to say what others are thinking but aren’t able to say.
11. Speaking of thinking, here’s what I wrote last year in a post about why blogging came natural to me: It seems that my mind thinks in excerpts from a larger text that fills my mind. I don’t think in linear “start to finish” ways. I’m one of those people who thinks in flash bulletins and browses through books from back to forward. Or I look at a word like “thinking” and see “thin king” or maybe “king thinking.”
12. Don’t forget that “Play is the highest form of research,” so says Albert Einstein (the one who discovered The Theory of Relativity and not the comedian who changed his name to Albert Brooks.
13. Can you say this five times fast? FRIENDLY FRANK FLIPS FLAPJACKS
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April 5th, 2007 9:47 am
The dogwoods are blooming here. I just love them, and the story that goes with them.
And now my toungue is all twisted. thanks a lot. 😉
April 5th, 2007 9:56 am
Or I look at a word like “thinking” and see “thin king” or maybe “king thinking”
I love this. It reminds me of my sister’s blog, which is called nowhere=now here.
April 5th, 2007 10:29 am
Thanks for a smile today.
You have color in your yard? I have white in mine. And, lots of it.
I am so jealous that you saw Led Zeppelin.
I LOVE your ticket stub!
April 5th, 2007 10:34 am
We called the Tea Party to see who was playing and we had never heard of Led Zepplin. We only went because the guy on the phone said “one of the members used to belong to the Yardbirds.” They turned out to be SO GOOD that we went back the next night. I saw them later at the Boston Gardens when they got big, but those first concerts were the best ever!
It has gotten colder, but no snow! The tulips are ready to pop but shy of the cold.
April 5th, 2007 10:56 am
You were the rocker girl! Cool shows Colleen! I saw Rod a few times myself but it was the 80s and early 90s Rod. Still hot though!
Number 7! I am just like that (unless it is my PMS time and then driving I can start thinking and come unglued). Night before last I was so upset and worried about something before I went to sleep. Yesterday I was on my patio with my flowers and thought how silly it seemed to have gotten so upset and I actually wondered “Why do I have to think and worry so much in the night?” In the day it all seems good.
I am so glad someone understands that feeling so it means I am not nuts!
(Was that what you thought I’d comment on?, You are usually good with mine.)
April 5th, 2007 10:56 am
If you really want a blast from the past try Ludwig’s Vault Radio. You can pick your poison by decade if you want…
April 5th, 2007 11:33 am
Instead of a “do not disturb sign,” I need one that says “lost in the vault.”
April 5th, 2007 11:55 am
I really appreciate this distinction:
It seems that my mind thinks in excerpts from a larger text that fills my mind.
I too, adore forsythia, and dogwoods! And I also have each in my yard, planted and loved by me over the years.
#6 – I think that you are attracting us with your thoughts….
April 5th, 2007 1:20 pm
Wow, you know what. Whad to learn to say thaat tongue twister when I was in theatre class. I got pretty good at them and if I’m truley living in the moment I can do them almost flawlessly.
April 5th, 2007 1:23 pm
I had to chuckle over your Joe Cocker remark. I, too, saw him live and thought he must have something truly wrong with his nervous system!
Remember your post a few days ago about your son’s tearing down his house? You said your husband drove 3 hours, I think, to go help him. I thought at the time, what a fine man you chose, as I knew he was not your son’s birth father. His ‘father’ and friend, nonetheless, it seems.
April 5th, 2007 1:30 pm
You got it, Karen! My eyes filled up just reading your comment. And that’s the part that woke me up to appreicate fully. The song Brad Paisley sings about a step-dad (the father you didn’t have to be) makes me cry too.
Leigh, It’s like some sort of tai chi of the tongue, learning to keep your linguistic balance, something your better at than me.
April 5th, 2007 2:58 pm
I love this list. Great fun! I wish I had seen Zepplin! I so cannot do tongue twisters…I need the chi for my tongue.
April 5th, 2007 3:14 pm
** HA!! ** Love the tongue twister…I too, had these sort of things for speaking exercises in Theatre classes in college…they were fun, really silly, and we had a blast with them!! Sometimes after classes, some of us would jus’ hang out, try to do extra twisters an’ end up just laughing for the afternoon..thanx for this one!!
April 5th, 2007 3:39 pm
You mentioned tht I knew which your favorite was…I dont but i would love to know if you’re willing to share thaqt information
April 5th, 2007 3:44 pm
Leigh’s best tattoo as seen by Colleen is recorded here: http://looseleafnotes.com/notes/2007/01/best_leftovers_of_2006.html
April 5th, 2007 4:25 pm
I do that “premonition” thing too. Have you seen the movie “Premonition”? I recommend it. I had a Tarot card reading for the first time, last spring. Very interesting! Which cards do you use?
Enjoy the dogwoods! They are so pretty.
Susan
April 5th, 2007 4:53 pm
i noticed the forsythias here have turned a golden yellow , from the bright yellow that they were….they almost looked like a flame.
are you a physic or a psychic? 🙂 (sorry, couldn’t help myself.)
and i like the version of a fool in that tarot deck….”the infinite possiblities that exist in every moment of life”- may i think like a fool!
April 5th, 2007 5:52 pm
Oh Yea……my first concert was the Boston Tea Party with you. I think I was 16?? What great memories, I saw “The Boss” before he was famous too. He reminded me of Joe Cocker with his contortions too, but he doesn’t do that anymore.
April 5th, 2007 6:16 pm
Thanks for the edit, Bluemtmama. All I knew was that the spell check accepted my version. It’s one of those words I can’t spell for the life of me.
Sherry, I miss you giving me editing corrections. I wonder how many readers see my mistakes and don’t tell me?! About the concerts, yes, you were 16 and I was 19. We saw so many great concerts together…..Jessie Colin Young, Donavan, Sly and the Family Stone,Joni Mitchell, Tom Rush, James Taylor, Van Morrisson!
Susan, I use the Motherpeace Deck. Joe likes the Runes.
April 5th, 2007 7:22 pm
Are you thinking of jake right now? Actually, I hope not. That would be a little weird. Focus on those flowers instead.
April 5th, 2007 7:48 pm
It doesn’t always work, and sometimes I am totally surprised, but in this case I actually I DID think about you, Jake, about an hour ago.
April 5th, 2007 9:03 pm
Love your description of using the tarot… same for me. Very nicely described. 🙂 I too often connect with bloggers as we’re each commenting on each other’s blog. Shall we call this blogvoyance?
~S 🙂
April 6th, 2007 3:50 am
Oh I so agree about “play is the highest form of research”…Indeed! Often I have gotten my most creative ideas just ‘playing around’…
There was so much in this TT Colleen, as always–Very Very Rich!
Thank You! And speaking of plaing, Friday Night Jamboree looks like great fun!
LOVE the Tarot cards, too….
And, HAVE A VERY VERY HAPPY EASTER, MY DEAR!
April 6th, 2007 9:08 am
I’m jealous of your Dogwoods. One of my favorite trees and we have very few down here. Get some photos when they’re in bloom.
April 7th, 2007 8:36 pm
Your husband is a gem and so are your sons precious gems! It’s neat they gfet along so well.
April 10th, 2007 12:49 pm
I don’t know how I missed you last Thursday! Funny story about tarot cards: I flew to Baltimore this weekend, and as my suitcase went thru security it got flagged. The guy asked me to open it, I did, he reached in…and pulled out my tarot cards, held up the deck, and yelled to the screener: “It’s ok, it’s just a pack of tarot cards!” I was cracking UP! I always take them with me 🙂
And our forsythia has yet to bloom, course, we’re expected yet another snowstorm this Thursday!
April 10th, 2007 6:47 pm
My brother is hear from Vienna for a visit and I am behind.
Poor Albert Brooks… being saddled with the name Albert Einstein could only lead to being a disappointment to your parents… who could live up to that name. I heard that he flunked high school math though… his mind was elsewhere obviously.