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

13 Thursday: The Shape of Things to Come

13mdandala1.jpg 1. My hands slipped while writing an email to my blog friend and fellow poet, Pris, and I called her Prism, which I think is appropriate seeing as how she sees the world through a poet’s eye.
2. Once I pointed out to a friend that by adding a G to her last name “Robinson” it would become “Robinsong.” She changed her name.
3. At one time we had THIS poster of Bob Marley in our living room. Both my mother and my friend Alywn thought it was Joe the first time they saw it.
4. I’d be really sad if Willie Nelson ever cut off his braid.
5. In the first year of Joe’s and my relationship I had a hard time saying “I love you.” Not because I didn’t but because it seemed cliché to say, and it didn’t seem to cover what I was feeling. Eventually I was able to say, I’m so loving you.
6. I can tell Christmas is nearing when my stat counter says I have a visitor from Santa Clara but I read it as “Santa Claus.”
7. My friend Rosemary sent me an email asking if we could get together for Scrabble. I answered, “Let me check the master plan, aka my calendar.”
8. It’s gotten so cold lately that we’ve had to batten down the hatches, which in our case means the doggie door.
9. Such is the life of a poet: I spent a good part of the day yesterday looking at pinwheel videos and writing a poem about fruit in which one line says: What’s a apricot got that a kumquat does not?
10. I believe in the bluebird of happiness, I just haven’t seen one in awhile.
11. I got a holiday invitation that ended by saying, “google for directions.” All I could think of is what I would have thought if I got that same message 5 years ago.
12. The root of the word GOOGLE comes from “googol,” a very large number that looks something like THIS. 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, etc….. Or better yet because my hand is getting tired: THIS
13. And THIS is the shape of things to come. Make of it what you will.
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December 6th, 2007 Colleen Redman Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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