The 13 Thursday Butterfly Landing
1. My friend Will, the local poet who came up with the term “alter-native” to describe Floyd’s alternative community, refers to himself politically as a Dharmacrat.
2. “Republicans and Democrats are like Fords and Chevys. Like the Yankees and the Red Sox, they have an almost irrational need to take sides,” I said.
3. Said to my husband Joe on my way to do an interview: I get to ask nosy questions. What could be more fun?
4. Writing a story is a lot like how in high school you can usually get a good grade if you just pay attention in class. Taking notes, and even recording an interview, isn’t as important as listening and making an effort to understand the story being told.
5. Getting the quotes in a story right is like getting the dates right in a history test.
6. I don’t usually start a phone conversation with “I liked my waitress last night,” but that’s what happened when I talked to my friend Mara and after eating at Mickey G’s Friday night.
7. I don’t tend to linger over dinner. I left the adults at our Mickey G’s table and spend half an hour playing outside with my six year old friend named Lotus, because even more fun than asking nosey questions is being in the presence of a magical child.
8. I think its no mistake that slightly is more of lightly, that spring says sing, heaven says haven, earth says heart, and evil is live backwards.
9. I didn’t get as much work done yesterday as I had planned to because I thought it bad luck to pick up my notebook and pen after a butterfly landed on it and hung around for over an hour (see above photo).
10. It didn’t help that I took 30 pictures of it, partly because it was a butterfly attracted to words and partly because I loved the way the words from my paper reflected onto my tea mug, making them look like a rising wave.
11. At a dinner I was at last night a friend suggested I was mildly autistic because of my propensity to rock. I told him I wasn’t autistic but artistic, but now I’ve decided I’m rocktistic.
12. Answers to yesterday’s post “Watt Ever” from friends on Facebook are: God, the man in the moon, the electric company, or Tom Boddett (who coined Hotel 6’s “we’ll leave the light on for you.”)
13. How fast can you solve THIS butterfly puzzle?
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August 26th, 2010 1:08 am
A (live) butterfly on one’s notebook sounds like a good reason to procrastinate to me. *g*
August 26th, 2010 1:20 am
rocktistic I like it lol Very kewl photo. It feels like there is some hidden message in the butterfly staying there like that.
Happy T13!
August 26th, 2010 6:05 am
Your photo is great. I love the magic of it.
#8 is my favorite today.
August 26th, 2010 7:09 am
Agree with 2 and 5. Like 9. Identify with your feelings and images in 10.
August 26th, 2010 9:29 am
love the butterfly!!! I took a similar picture of a moth recently … it stayed for about 10 minutes 🙂
August 26th, 2010 10:43 am
Great list, and I love #2
August 26th, 2010 11:14 am
N° 8 is nice, lol !
August 26th, 2010 12:17 pm
Love rocktistic! Writers tend to be a bit on the outside of the mainstream, anyway. And #8 is right on.
August 26th, 2010 8:24 pm
no. 8 wow! i love it when writers cast their charm on words.
P.S. my T13 wasn’t an online fantasy 🙂 those women on the rocks you said you love, well the skirt-clad one is actually me and other one is yes, also real. she’s a doctor in one of asia’s top plastic surgery hospitals and the rest of those photos are still on my cam right now. i did review my post but yes, everything i described in that holiday actually happened though i’m still like, “really? it sounds like a fantasy?” 🙂
August 26th, 2010 11:12 pm
I find the butterfly puzzle fun to do.
August 26th, 2010 11:36 pm
The Pearly Crescents are falling over each other trying to get to the Black-Eyed Susan here. How wonderful for one to land on your paper. This afternoon I saw a Luna Moth on our garage brick, but alas, it was not moving and likely already dead. I haven’t seen one here before… then again, I don’t often stay outside and fight with mosquitoes to do so.
After I took the 80 Monarch caterpillars to the botanical garden… I came home to feed the 40 I still had in the butterfly houses here. Found at least another 10 out on the milkweed and I figure ALL will be down to the bare sticks in three or four days. I cannot help but wish that the 27 in chrysalides now, would all emerge at the same time and there would be a cloud of Monarchs around my head before they fly off into the woods.
August 27th, 2010 12:39 am
A butterfly attracted to words. That is my kind of butterfly! (and very pretty too!)
Lotus. What a beautiful name. No wonder she is a magical child. (I believe that names make a big difference)
August 27th, 2010 2:55 am
Hmmmm.eakize that slightly has mire letters than lightly, but I think it is LESS Lightly….There you do….
That Butterfly is Beautiful Collen and the Butterfly puzzle Fun!
LOVE the name Lotus….It is fascinating the many names people are using for their children now…like “Brooklyn”….Loyus makes a lot more sense to me, I must say…lol!
August 27th, 2010 5:51 pm
I so look forward to your 13. Have a great weekend.
August 28th, 2010 12:19 pm
no 8 has opened my eyes – wideee open!
My T-13
September 2nd, 2010 2:01 am
Love These! LOVE Rocktistic! And the butterfly’s word wave. Excellent.