13: Something Tells Me
1. A new zoo from Tracie is HERE.
2. An old favorite song of my sister Sherry’s and mine that inspired the above title and came to mind after looking at # 1 HERE.
3. Recently found written in old journal: God is in good and goodness is goddess. Next to it was this: If a bond goes to far does it become bondage?
4. Every morning when I eat my golden farm fresh eggs yolks spread on a whole wheat bagel I feel like I’m eating the sun.
5. Never a dull moment, working as a small town writer. In the last two weeks I did an interview and story on a humanitarian clown, a bluegrass singing librarian who was offered a record contract and an owner of a new shop in town who, by his own description is selling what he calls “tershit” (translation: tourist shit). Next up? A teacher of tree climbing who climbs and sleeps in trees.
6. If doing stories was a garden, the interview part would be the tilling, the writing would be tending to the vegetables, and taking photos would be like growing the flowers.
7. I went to the local Coffee Party meet-up over the weekend. It was so a refreshing, in the midst of current political threats and hate crimes over health care reform, to be with a group whose mission statement reads, “We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans.”
8. I hold public figures and like Sarah Palin responsible for inciting a climate of violence. Palin was quoted after the health care reform passed as telling her followers: “Don’t Retreat, Instead — RELOAD!” She singled out 20 House Democrats who voted for the health care bill as targets on her website, using a map with cross-hair gun sights on their districts, and was quoted as saying about the press “In Alaska, you know what we do with people like that? We hunt ’em down and shoot ’em between the eyes.”
9. My blogger friend Naomi recently wrote about at time when she came across a dead body. I never had that happen before but have I come across people having sex, twice!
10. I can’t help wondering how many transient searches might land on my blog now that I have the word shit and sex in the same post.
11. As the grass slowly greens, my skin slowly darkens and freckles appear like night sky constellations.
12. Now THIS is what I call a greenhouse.
13. The greenhouse I grew up in is HERE.
Mosey over to the TT headquarters HERE. My other 233 Thirteen Thursdays are HERE.
April 1st, 2010 11:12 am
Colleen, I am really delighted that you are writing so much for your local paper, particularly given that my career doing the same is pretty much non-existent. It is good to know newspapers are doing okay in some areas, anyway.
I agree with you that politicians need to be held responsible for what they say. They seem to have no shame. The folks doing the stupid things also are responsible for their own actions and I hope they are caught and punished under the law.
April 1st, 2010 11:24 am
Whoa! I never had had that chance either “across a dead body” and people having sex. How I wish! lol. not the dead body but people having sex..
April 1st, 2010 11:45 am
I love this: “taking photos would be like growing the flowers.”
And I’m so sorry your friend Naomi had to see that!
Also, Sarah Palin has a screw loose…or many.
April 1st, 2010 11:56 am
The weirdo searchers will definitely be finding you now!
You are right about #8 – there is no defense for statements like that (or that picture) it isn’t nessecary to resort to that level of stupidity to make a point.
I’ve really enjoyed reading about your town….and I have wanted to sleep in a tree ever since I saw Swiss Family Robinson!
Thanks for the Molly Link! I love that owl!
April 1st, 2010 11:59 am
What a fun blog! I shall definitely be back.
April 1st, 2010 12:09 pm
Regarding #5: There really are so many untold wonderful stories out there. Lucky you to be the one to tell them. And you certainly tell them well.
April 1st, 2010 1:12 pm
#6 is a lovely way to describe the process. Here’s hoping your “garden” flourishes.
April 1st, 2010 1:38 pm
So that’s another bit about Sarah Palin huh. I’m not a US citizen but we (or at least some of us) from the rest of the world do notice what politicians from big nations are reported to be up to.
No. 9 blimey! Sometimes I seem to think both incidents only happen on films or books.
April 1st, 2010 2:06 pm
I’ve been raving about your #8 too. I’m glad to see you’re informing people as well. Her Facebook, Twitter messages to RELOAD are fanning flames of civil unrest and dividing our country.
Another good Thursday 13!
April 1st, 2010 2:13 pm
#8- so true and well said.
Have a great Thursday!
http://harrietandfriends.com/2010/03/nuts-nuts/
April 1st, 2010 3:35 pm
Sarah Palin, and her ilk, scare me! Love the “green” house.
April 1st, 2010 4:18 pm
It would be wonderful if more people understood number 7. I am so tired of people complaining, complaining complaining as they sit on their couches.
April 1st, 2010 8:01 pm
tershit-clever.
I’m appalled at SP’s actions and how many people just eat up her drivel. So much ignorance flying around is quite sickening.
April 1st, 2010 8:36 pm
how romantic your n° 4, lol golden eggs as sun !
April 1st, 2010 11:07 pm
It’s an inside-out green house. Cool.
April 2nd, 2010 12:48 am
Eggs and sun- warm and glowing
Love your comparisons about writing. Luscious.
I also like Simon and G.
Happy TT!
April 2nd, 2010 2:22 am
I love #2 and everytime I hear that song…..I think of you. I wish we could sing it together real soon.
#8 is something else…….xo
April 2nd, 2010 11:54 am
#8 is so scary. i can’t figure out when the citizens of this country became so partisan they lost their minds! how in the world educated people can listen to her, much less agree with her, is beyond my understanding. we need to insure that the press takes some responsibility for their emphasis/focus in news reporting as well. they have a hand in promoting the ridiculous instead of the facts and encouraging some of the outrageous trends in thought (or lack thereof!).
April 3rd, 2010 8:51 pm
Ew….folks having sex…twice? Come to think of it, that happened to me when I lived in Montreal. I used to cycle up and down Mount Royal every morning, and once I came across a similarly engaged couple. I almost threw up at the thought. Then I laughed.
No dead bodies yet, thankfully. Hopefully that’ll always remain true.
April 3rd, 2010 9:17 pm
Two different times. I was shocked but kind of got a kick out of it because it something everyone does but you never see. No dead bodies here either, thankfully.
April 8th, 2010 1:40 am
Yet another reason why I dislike Sarah Palin as intensely as I do. She irritates me almost as much as Cheaney. Sorry I missed your post last week!