13 in the Sand
1. Blogging helps me know what day it is, which I wouldn’t know otherwise because I don’t have a regular job, and I especially don’t know when I’m at the beach, which I am now.
2. Yesterday I was browsing through “Virginia Living” magazine and found this interesting story about Edgar Allen Poe: A bust of Poe was unveiled in 1909 for the museum and garden dedicated to him in Richmond, Virginia. The bust was stolen and soon after, the museum got a call from the thief. He agreed to tell museum authorities where they would find the bust, but only after he was read Poe’s poem, The Spirit of the Dead, out loud over the phone. After the reading, he directed the authorities to The Raven Pub. The bust was found there on the bar, where the caller had bought it a beer.
3. According to Floyd legend, Edgar Allen Poe had a girlfriend in Floyd that he used to visit and who is now buried in the Old Jacksonville Cemetery.
4. Add a T to Poe and it says Poet.
5. Lately I’ve been getting more spam comments than blog comments, which can make me feel strangely more popular than if I was getting no comments at all.
6. I’ve also been reading Gift from the Sea, a book that I’ve had for thirty years but haven’t read up until now. This is what you do on vacation.
7. The beach is not a place to work, to read, write or think. I should have remembered that from other years. Too warm, too damp, too soft for any real mental discipline or sharp or sharp flights of spirit. One never learns. Hopefully, one carries down the faded straw bag, lumpy with books, clean paper, long over-due unanswered letters, freshly sharpened pencils, lists and good intentions. The books remain unread, the pencils break their points and the pads rest smooth and unblemished as the cloudless sky. No reading, no writing, no thoughts even – at least, not at first. ~ Excerpt from Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
8. Contrary to the above excerpt, I got lots of writing done at the beach today.
9. I was hoping to finish a Gestalt around my ankle injury, a reoccurring injury that is related to going to the ocean (a representation of the mother), but it turned out to be just another experience of limping around in the sand.
10. Question asked to Joe by Colleen after she injured her ankle: “So where do think the foot reflexology point for the foot is on the foot?”
11. I was visiting someone’s blog recently and saw the name June in a comment. For a moment, I thought it was my blog friend June from Spatter, but with a second look I realized it was the date, with June being the month we’re in.
12. Favorite quote found in the blogsphere this week: “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” Ray Bradbury
13. Go get your feet wet HERE.
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June 12th, 2008 12:07 am
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” Ray Bradbury
I LOVE this! Going to print it out for my quote wall. Thanks. Happy T13!
June 12th, 2008 12:25 am
It is very kind of you to blog while you are at the beach. Congratulations on getting writing done there – whatcha workin’ on? Sorry about the ankle. That sucks.
Happy TT! 🙂 Enjoy your holiday.
June 12th, 2008 12:53 am
The quote sounds nice ! I can’t write on a beach I look too much around, lol !
June 12th, 2008 7:17 am
There’s something about the beach…the look and sound of the ocean…that stirs my soul.
I wonder why the outburst of spam after all these years?
I chuckled when I read the “June” comment. All month long I’ve been fooled to think I’ve already left a comment somewhere!
We’re going to the library opening tonight – Nikki Giovanni is supposed to be the guest speaker. 🙂
Hi to JoeyK
June 12th, 2008 7:58 am
I’m so sorry to miss Nikki. I hope the Press and some bloggers cover it so I can read about it later.
Sadly, I’ve been getting spam on Loose Lead since the beginning, but it ebbs and flows (nice beach metaphor).
I’m writing poetry mostly which I can do at the beach better than prose.
June 12th, 2008 8:05 am
Those Poe entries are great. I have just read some Ann Lindbergh and Reeve Lindbergh, and I want more, though I’ll take the advice of leaving the book off the beach!
June 12th, 2008 11:29 am
I hope you enjoy your week at the beach. I have had “Gift from the Sea” in my library for years and years. I go to it like an old friend!
June 12th, 2008 11:56 am
I love that story about the bust theif and the beer! It sounds like you are enjoying your time with Atlantic. Thanks for posting even though you are on vacation!!
June 12th, 2008 4:03 pm
I love your beach shots. An old foot injury doesn’t allow me to walk barefoot on soft/dry sand…
I see my name all over during the month of March…followed by the day , like Mar 10— 😀
Happy Thursday!
June 13th, 2008 4:09 am
i am assuming you are at least walking better? it is hard to walk in sand with no injury!
i love your thursday posts….and this one is no exception. 🙂
June 13th, 2008 9:45 am
I can’t walk up and down the beach, but can limp to my beach chair and swim in the ocean without feeling too handicapped. I have been slammed by a few good waves.
June 13th, 2008 10:02 am
2 strange story indeed. 6 love that book. I should reread it. 1& 11 can so relate. where hours used to slip, months slip.
June 13th, 2008 11:06 am
Thank you SO SO much for #13…I feel better 🙂
June 13th, 2008 12:41 pm
I just saw that you submitted me as an inspiring person at on-a-limb.com. Thank you Colleen!! 🙂
Have a great weekend.
June 14th, 2008 6:52 pm
Boy do I relate to #1!!! Of course, it’s Saturday as I visit your T-13 … and methinks it’s been a while since I dropped by. Life’s been BUSY and my computer giving me fits! Enjoyed the associations to Poe in #2-4 … I’ve been getting more SPAM lately too, sadly ;–(
I’ve read ‘Gifts from the Sea’ a few times, but not for quite a while now … always a wonderful ‘read’ at the beach. Love the Bradbury quote!!! Don’t have time to wade today however.
Hugs and blessings,
June 16th, 2008 6:17 pm
As always, a very rich TT…! I too have had THE GIFT FROM THE SEA for at least 30 years…maybe closer to 40, having been given it as a gift by a sweet dear friend. I have always loved that book, even though that quote didn’t apply to you…lol!