Through the 13 Thursday Looking Glasses
1. Things have finally slowed down enough around here that when Joe asked one night what I was doing the next day, the extent of my answer was: “I’m on a mission to buy broccoli.” (Translation: I need to go grocery shopping.)
2. When I woke up the next morning the first thing I said was, “This is the day I’m getting some broccoli.” But before I did that I took a magnifying glass outside to study the new snowflakes coming down.
3. Speaking of broccoli, remember THIS?
4. Reading an essay in Shambhala Sun by one of my writing influences, Natalie Goldberg, I discovered that she likes cherry red tootsie pops just like me.
5. That’s my favorite kind of biographical writing detail.
6. Today, while in town for a Scrabble game I got a Scrabble Bingo with the word “mariners” and on the way home I saw a man watering a snow bank with a hose.
7. “Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.” Natalie Goldberg
8. Stuck at my writer’s workshop recently without reading glasses, I pulled out my Avatar 3D glasses and put them on, but apparently not only did they make everything even more blurry, the other writers laughed. I can’t decide if THEY make me look nerdy or hip.
9. I think the writers of Avatar could have come up a more credible name for the rock that the earthlings needed so badly that they felt it was worth wrecking a foreign planet for. The name of the coveted rock? “Unobtainium.”
10. While at the café today talking face to face with people I’ve been in Facebook contact with, I felt like we were characters in Avatar spending time in our human bodies after some other-worldly time in outer space.
11. Once while at an overlook in California with friends, I spotted some seals down below on the Pacific shore. My friends were all convinced that what I was seeing was driftwood, but I wasn’t. They hiked on and I stayed behind until I saw those supposed pieces of driftwood move around.
12. I remembered that after seeing pictures of Death Valley rocks that move themselves and imagining how exciting it would be to catch them doing it. How do you explain THIS?
13. Seeing is believing but feeling is the truth. ~ Thomas Fuller
See what others are seeing on Thursday HERE.
January 14th, 2010 10:34 am
Nerdy hip? I don’t think it’s an either or. It’s both.
What was the deal with the snowbank?
January 14th, 2010 10:43 am
I think he was watering it down to melt it but the snow is really dirty around here now, so who knows?
January 14th, 2010 10:46 am
I’m my own Avatar 🙂 Nice seeing you in the “real” world yesterday.
January 14th, 2010 11:06 am
I absolutely love the idea of number 10! And I can just picture you looking at snowflakes through a magnifying glass. I wish you lived next door, because then I would have noticed and done the same.
January 14th, 2010 11:26 am
I had the Avatar internet thought while talking to you Chris, knowing you read here and at Facebook, seeing you and feeling no distance because of that. I did look up Tom Waits, read about his history and listening to Can’t Hold back Spring. Such a contrast, sweet words for a gritty kind of guy.
Tabor if we were neighbors, we’d probably be watching each other with binoculars, wondering: what is that woman doing now?!
I have been feeling dull lately and desperately needed to see the beauty of a snowflake.
January 14th, 2010 11:53 am
I have so many comments on this one! LOVED the quote by Natalie Goldberg…can I borrow it?
Those stones remind me of the scene in POTC3 with the “rock” that Captain Jack kept tossing away…only to find it next to him again.
I agree with you about the Avatar writers…that was pretty uninspired.
And speaking of snowflakes and their close cousin, ice crystals, I was out photographing crystals on my windshield this morning…can’t wait to upload them! There were star shapes and daisy shapes and all sorts of things!
January 14th, 2010 12:13 pm
Feel free to borrow the quote, Janet. Seems were on the same wavelength again.
January 14th, 2010 12:26 pm
7 at her best sak
January 14th, 2010 2:04 pm
Wow kewl to find that I have something in common with you and with Natalie Goldberg (she’s amazing isn’t she?) too because I love cherry red tootsie pops!!! I’m sure they were seals … I see them often … dolphins too. Thanks for dropping by while I was walking Molly.
Hugs and blessings,
January 14th, 2010 2:15 pm
I especially enjoyed the quote about life!
January 14th, 2010 9:25 pm
‘…when Joe asked one night what I was doing the next day, the extent of my answer was: “I’m on a mission to buy broccoli.”
When I woke up the next morning the first thing I said was, “This is the day I’m getting some broccoli.” ‘
I just love this set of images. This would make a fun poem.
January 15th, 2010 9:55 am
I didn’t know you would use a magnifying glass for a snowflake. It must be fun. Thanks for mentioning that; I learned something new about snowflakes today.
January 15th, 2010 10:49 am
You are soooo observant! I love this list! I’m suddenly craving broccoli. As for the man with the snowbank… here in MI we do that.. well sometimes. We take a big snowbank, add water so it freezes and it makes an awesome sled hill for kids. We have one at the side of our driveway right now. LOL
January 16th, 2010 10:39 am
Nelson had a video of him Kayaking with the seals. Heather saw it and wanted to know why all the women were wearing bathing caps?!
#12 is wild!!!!! Someone must of saw them move before….they should have a video on that. xo
January 16th, 2010 10:40 am
PS Is that Jimmy Hendrix with the OLD 3D glasses on? I like the newer ones and I bet they look sexy on you. xo
January 16th, 2010 11:06 am
That’s a riot about the girls in bathing caps!! Yes, it’s Jimmy Hendrix, a left over from when my office used to be Josh’s bedroom. Those old style 3d glasses were pretty lame. The newer ones are an upgrade but make things look blurry if you’re not watching a 3d movie.
January 17th, 2010 9:06 am
I just borrowed your Natalie Goldberg quote for my status update on Facebook. What a life we have, my friend!