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

The 13 Thursday Reality Check

13followmeg.jpg 1. The 2009 Sweetheart Valentine theme is a “Menu of Love” with a new series of candy conversation hearts that say, Honey Bun, Stir my Heart, Top Chef, and Yum Yum.
2. My friends Jayn and Emily and I put the February Museletter (our community newsletter) together on Monday. In honor of Valentine’s Day we decorated it with conversation heart stamps and used this quote by Dr. Seuss: “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
3. I also found a quote by Dr. Seuss giving some good advice to writers: “So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
4. Here in NASCAR territory, people will sometimes ask, ‘who’s your driver?’ I call the picture below of my grandson Bryce “MY DRIVER.”speedracer.jpg
5. Joe and I were told about the Ripley’s Believe it or Not upside down house in Orlando. While on vacation there we found the Ripley’s Believe it or Not crooked house building and thought that must be it. Later, back at home, I discovered Ripley’s has both a crooked house and an upside down house on the same street. HERE’S the one we missed seeing in person.
6. Apparently Dr. Seuss (“the subversive fantasist who liberated children’s books from the conformist blahs of Dick and Jane”) was scolded by his art teacher for looking at his artwork upside down. I like to look at mine through squinted eyes.
7. You know how sometimes you look at a certain common word and it suddenly feels foreign or unreal? Sometimes when I read over something I wrote that’s been published a whole line can feel that way, and for a few seconds I feel a sense of disorientated panic.
8. These words are currently not taken: Monnize, Waffliest, Clundown, Cheris, Epleo, Unseepia, Agona, and Fugckabl. They are blogger verification near-words that just seem to be lacking descriptions and dictionary verification.
9. My car is being worked on, the drippy plumbing in my house is being fixed, and my dishwasher just bit the dust. I’m trying not to take it personally.
10. The Sun Magazine is my favorite magazine that I hardly ever read.
11. I like when you come back home from being away and for a brief few minutes you can look at your house with new eyes and see what you like and what you don’t like, a perspective that’s hard to get when you live in it day to day.
12. We perceive appearances and we begin to label them. Then we begin to take the label as reality. We fixate on the label and it becomes very real to us, but the appearances themselves have no label and no fixation. ~ excerpted from a Buddhist magazine I was reading when Joe and I were in Florida.
13. Remember the old bumper sticker that said “Question Authority.” I had one on my car that said “Question Reality.”
More 13 Thursdays are HERE.

January 29th, 2009 Colleen Redman Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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