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

Here Lies 13 Thursday

12plant.jpg1. How many beans can you stand to hear scream? Find out HERE.
2. Only in Floyd: This past weekend I danced to the grooves of The Emily Brass Band at the Pine Tavern Floyd Family Jamfest and was caught at the nighttime fire dance intermission show without a decent camera.
3. I recently realized that my getting hooked on late night Sex in the City reruns was partly because I had a crush on Carrie’s boyfriend Aiden, played by John Corbett, which I discovered when his character was written out of the show and my level of commitment to the show dropped. Then, more recently, I discovered that Corbett was a born again Christian Republican and the boyfriend of Bo Derek, and my crush fizzled some. Even more recently, I learned that Corbett is also a pretty decent country singer songwriter, which piqued my interest again.
4. My not ready for primetime bumper sticker that I have on my fridge reads: Born Okay the First Time.
5. The fact that I share Ted Kennedy’s Irish Catholic Massachusetts Democrat background, and that he was being buried next to his two brothers on the anniversary of my brother Danny’s death (the second of my two brothers who died a month apart and were buried together), while tropical storm Danny brought a deluge of rain off the eastern coast, wasn’t lost on me.
6. Around the same time that Ted Kennedy was dying and tropical storm Danny was stirring up, thrivalist Frank Cook, who was in Floyd this past May giving plant talks and walks, died unexpectedly of a parasitic infection. Frank had a Master’s Degree in Holistic Science from Shumaker College, wrote Emerging Planetary Medicines, and was active in the Transition Culture movement, a movement for those preparing for a no-carbon economy. A video clip of his Floyd visit is HERE.
7. Considering that my writer’s bio-note is: “I keep a dictionary in the backseat of my car and a kaleidoscope in my glove compartment. What else do you need to know?” I’m not surprised that people send me cool kaleidoscope sites, like THIS new one.
8. Epitaph found on a tombstone in Georgia “I told you I was sick!”
9. Strangest vanity license plate, spotted once in Blacksburg: IAMHURT.
10. Poet Robert’s Frost’s tombstone epitaph reads, “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.” Charles Bukowski’s says: Don’t Try.
11. Writing a bio is one thing, but an epitaph? What would yours say? I think I’ll use one of THESE.
12. Can you read this? ǝsɹǝʌuı sǝʇıɹʍ ʇǝod spɹɐʍʞɔɐq ɐ
13. And finally, I’ll leave it to my baby grandson Bryce to wave bye-bye HERE.
Say hello to fellow 13 Thursday players HERE.

September 3rd, 2009 Colleen Redman Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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