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

13 Thursday: Old Blue Shoe

1. There are two stats I check without fail first thing every morning. Today they were 8:15 and 118. Can you guess what they were?

2. I never had the bride getting married fantasy when I was a girl, but I have fantasized about going to the Academy Awards to see the stars up close. I used to fantasize sitting between Susan Sarandon and Tom Robbins (I like their politics and they have the same age difference as Joe and I), but they recently split up, adding just one more reason why the fantasy won’t ever come true.

3. HERE’S another reason.

4. I think in poetry. Even my shopping lists tend to get arranged in rhymes: Feta, arugula and aloe vera are followed by broccoli and tahini. Red pepper and peanut butter go good together.

5. I haven’t made it back to Laughter Yoga class, but I practice laughing loudly on my walk to the mailbox. It helps when I imagine someone comes along and catches me laughing hysterically about nothing.

6. My friend Katherine sent me an email and in it she referred to me as her “over the hill friend,” which sounds sort of derogatory unless you know that I literally live a stone’s throws away and over a hill from her.

7. You have to be a certain age to get THIS, but it’s funny even if you aren’t.

8. This is the snowiest winter I’ve experienced in my 24 years of living in Virginia, but during yesterday’s snowfall, coming home from town, I saw a bright pink birdhouse hanging from a tree and a bluebird land on a branch.  I took both as hopeful signs of spring.

9. Favorite answering machine message left this week by my friend Mara: “What’s new, old blue shoe?” It was in answer to the question I left, “What’s the story, Morning Glory?”

10. Last week, I wrote a blog entry and a newspaper story about my friend Asa who is in Haiti with a relief team. Every time I typed Asa’s name, my spellcheck wanted me to change it to ASAP.

11. I’m also writing about My Asheville Potter son Josh’s collage journals, a ten year body of work, which he plans to publish soon. Josh recently gave me the names of some collage artists he knew I’d like to research. I never got past the first one, Ray Johnson (1927-1995) because any Taoist who called “Pop Art” “Chop Art,” staged “Nothings” in answer to the 60’s Happenings,” photocopied his ear for art’s sake, and did a make-up blush commercial collage with the words “Your fly is open,” is my kind of guy.

12. Being one who is used to being on the other end of the camera, when I opened a recent newspaper and saw that I had been photographed at an art opening in town (twice!), I shouted out to Joe, “I’ve just been punked!”

13. Look what you can do with an old blue shoe HERE.

~ Speaking of over the hill, my Thirteen Thursday membership is really old. This is my 230th edition. See what others who are playing are saying HERE.

March 4th, 2010 colleen Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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