13: Having Our Cake and Eating it Too
1. I know I’m co-dependent with the birds when I go out the cellar door rather than the front door so I won’t disturb them nesting and eating at the feeder.
2. I left Roanoke after babysitting baby Liam and Bryce on Wednesday with dried baby biscuit goop up and down my pants and purple watercolor paint on my raincoat.
3. Hosting Sixteen Hands Studio Tour at my house for my Asheville Potter Son Josh with more than 100 people coming and going throughout the weekend is like letting him have the party I never let him have as a teenager.
4. First there was the “How a Poem is Like Cake” poem and then there was the birthday party for Mara featuring poetry cake.
5. Mara is 18 years with 22 years of experience. At her birthday party we read poetry and played Apples to Apples. We were planning to float poems down the river in boats but it rained.
6. The lullaby song that I sang to Bryce when he was a baby was Row Row Row Your Boat. For Liam it’s Get Your Motor Running!
7. When I sang to Bryce I changed the words to his song, ending with “Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily, Bryce is but a dream.”
8. Recently heard: The U.S. has spent millions on the development of NASA space pen that can write upside down. The Russians just use a pencil.
9. Seems that Thich Nhat Hanh and Pema Chodron have Facebook pages and “like” my husband’s Inward Bound Mindfulness page.
10. Weirdest hat at the royal wedding HERE.
11. Can you believe that an anchor at Fox news reported that President Obama was dead instead of Osama Bin Laden. Watch HERE.
12. “Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” ~ Pema Chodron
13. Watch Bryce host a tea party HERE.
More Thirteen Thursdays HERE.
May 4th, 2011 11:30 pm
I remember the Martin Sheen character saying #8 in an episode of The West Wing many years ago. I hope it’s true — it’s too good an anecdote just to be an urban myth.
#11 beggars belief!
May 5th, 2011 12:01 am
Absolutely the weirdest hat.
May 5th, 2011 12:23 am
And Fox news wonders why people don’t take them seriously…
Princess Beatrice won “worst hat” worn to the royal wedding, hands down.
May 5th, 2011 4:20 am
I love apples to apples! And cupcake poety, so are we talking edible haiku? *smile*
Happy TT,
~Xakara
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May 5th, 2011 7:25 am
poor girl in the weird hat..
poor guy from the ox news…
love no.12! and 1:))
May 5th, 2011 8:50 am
It’s a good thing there’s an internet or I would not know about that hat!
May 5th, 2011 8:55 am
I like #2! It means you are with babies and being loved!
I also could mix up the names of Osama and Obama…..but not on national TV.
May 5th, 2011 10:13 am
I saw that hat and shook my head. Why would anyone want to wear something like that? I hope she’s getting paid to look ridiculous lol
Fun list. Happy T13!
May 5th, 2011 12:05 pm
8. I heard it was a myth about the pen only being used but it is a great pen. best pen I’ve had.
http://www.spacepen.com/matteblackbullet.aspx
the best of the bullet pens is that one because the matte finish means if you drop the cap, it doesn’t ding like windchimes in a quiet room.
May 5th, 2011 12:07 pm
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” ~ Pema Chodron
can be true, but also one can convince oneself to be fearful easily because its an elevated alert state and the stress-junkie society teaches that it’s a fun place to be. then you get in the dodgy realm of confirmation bias.
May 5th, 2011 12:26 pm
Ah, cupcakes… yum… now I am hungry.
May 5th, 2011 1:35 pm
Apples to Apples is my favorite game 🙂
That’s the second time I’ve heard the name “Pema Chodron” today…hmmm…
Fox News? Shocking! 😉
May 5th, 2011 1:46 pm
[…] Colleen mentioned the Space pen. That one is at Lee Valley too, but therainbow one isn’t. It is pretty but seems a bit overengineered. On the other hand, mine is dented from fumbling it and titanium nitride would probably still look pristine. […]
May 8th, 2011 10:35 am
As Always, my dear Colleen…a very wonderful T13!
You are amazing…! You have been doing this every week for almost 6 years….! I am in awe of you!
May 8th, 2011 10:37 am
Oh…And I meant to say…I am beginning to really like that Hat! It is unique and looks perfect on Beatrice! Someone said that Joan Rivers said…She looks like she is wearing an IUD on her head….lol!
May 11th, 2011 9:12 pm
Happy birthday to your friend!