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13 In the Bag

13bag.jpg1. I sent Mara and Kyla home with a bag full of garden lettuce when they were here playing Scrabble last week. Later, Mara texted me an email from her new phone saying, “Thanx 4 the lettuce.” I replied “are you alliterating it or just ating it?”
2. To which she texted back “lets see…lettuce leaves little to alliterate, lest you love lines like: “Look! Lettuce! Lord, how loose is this life.”
3. The “alliteration” line goes back to a poem Mara wrote and one I answered (called Poet’s Hotline), which starts … Her words land in poems … like eggs in a skillet … She makes them sizzle … She burns the butter … And ends with She’s alliterating lettuce … for a garden villanelle.
4. The highlight or my week happened when a young girl at the video store told me she liked my hair. Not only did the much appreciated compliment come at a time when I wasn’t liking my hair and needed to hear something nice, I was impressed that a young girl would even notice me.
5. The play HAIR is back. My sister Sherry and I saw the original in Boston back when many who were in it and practically everyone watching really was a hippie. Now they have actors to play them.
6. We grew up knowing that dirty things came in brown paper bags, but so did our school lunches.
7. In the 60’s when we weren’t “into” something, we really did say, “It’s not my bag,” which wasn’t any stranger than saying “It’s not up my alley.”
8. Do you remember the Unknown Comic and did you ever wonder who was under the paper bag he wore on his head? The answer is HERE.
9. BYOB used to mean “Bring Your Own Booze” but now, in light of the fact that we are drowning in non-biodegradable plastic bags and trees are cut down to make paper ones, it should mean “Bring Your Own Bag.”
10. So many ways to say bag. There’s bag it… bag of wind…grab bag … doggie bag … bag lady … old bag …bag of bones …bag of tricks …. a mixed bag …left holding the bag … cat out of the bag …and half in the bag.
11. Ever since I learned that there’s a raft of plastic debris the size of Texas that has collected and is floating somewhere out in the Pacific, I started carrying my own reusable shopping bag in my pocketbook. (More HERE.)
12. Wearing plastic: Do you know how to tell if a garment of clothing is cotton or polyester? Clip off a piece from the underside and burn it with a match. If it’s cotton or some other natural fiber, it will burn to ash and disappear. If it’s polyester or some other unnatural material it burns into a hard plastic ball.
13. Most famous plastic bag HERE.
More 13 Thursday Players are HERE.

June 11th, 2009 Colleen Redman Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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