Drawing from the 13 Thursday Well
1. I just got a Facebook invitation to attend a Sun Hall Music concert of a band named Ultraviolet Hippopotamus.
2. In the last couple of weeks I’ve heard (and danced to) live music by Love Farm, Mighty Shakey, Ember Swift and Boris Garica.
3. I was watching the PBS special “The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio” when a clip of Arnie (Woo Woo) Ginsberg broadcasting from the Surf Ballroom in Nantasket Beach, the town I grew up in and the place I used to dance every weekend, came on. Ginsberg was a well known Boston radio disc jockey I grew up with in the 60’s and 70’s who got his nickname from the train whistles and other sound effects he used on the radio.
4. Like a beach town in summer, our tourist season in the mountains is fall. Cars are crawling all over the Blue Ridge Parkway like ants, including mine.
5. Monday I had a Tai massage by a woman who is new to Floyd. She and her husband moved here from Japan because she was pregnant and didn’t want to expose herself and her baby to the radioactive fallout of Fukushima nuclear plant.
6. Love Farm on Oddfellas Cantina stage with a guest spoon player HERE.
7. We just got a new hand water pump. It wasn’t cheap, but it was a lot cheaper than solar panels we were looking into in order to be able to access our water “when the shift hits the fan.”
8. “America is far from broke. Our problem is too much money in the wrong places.” ~ Best selling author David Korten. Read Korten’s thoughts on what the Occupy Wall Street protesters want HERE.
9. “Occupy Wall Street has basically been a four week Downtown Manhattan live-in, causing the media to move its coverage dial from Blackout to Circus. Those are the only two settings they have.” ~ Jon Stewart
10. At the “Cliffs of Moher” (mother) we hiked and took in the breathtaking coastline view from very high up. Nearby was St. Bridget’s Well- a holy pilgrimage place of prayer that had such an effect on me that I wept. There was a gentle waterfall above the well and a passageway full of devotional items, momentums and pictures of loved ones. All through Ireland there are holy wells. The Irish recognize the sacredness of pure water and its connection with spirituality and healing. The drinking water was all good in Ireland, by the way. ~ Excerpt from my 1999 travelogue of Ireland.
12. Poet Wallace Stevens played Thirteen Thursday HERE.
11. I think we could have our own budding poet in the making in our 3 year old grandson. Me: Bryce, are you going to finish your brown rice? Bryce: Brown Rice and Bryce are the same. Me: Yes, they rhyme!
13. A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. Yoko Ono
October 13th, 2011 12:21 am
Love the Jon Stewart quote.
Re: #8… Michael Moore said the same thing in his speech “America Is NOT Broke,” before thousands of protesters in Madison, WI on March 7, 2011. You can read the text or watch the video here.
October 13th, 2011 3:04 am
Jon Stewart—BRILLIANT! And it is so true—All the money is in a few hands. I pray the Media start to get behind this Movement that’s happening on Wall Street and other places…..
Your excepert from your diary of your trip to Ireland is very moving, Colleen….
As always—A fascinating T13….AND, I
LOVED the story about how that disc jockey became known as “Woo Woo”….
October 13th, 2011 3:54 am
I love the Yoko Ono quote! May it be the realized truth from the Occupy WallSt. Movement.
Happy T13,
~Xakara
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October 13th, 2011 7:16 am
As always, an enjoyable read this morning. You’re quite a lady. Happy T13!
October 13th, 2011 8:09 am
I would have loved to see the broadcast of Arnie Ginsberg at the Surf.
#8 & #9 are something else!!
My screen saver is The Cliffs of Moher from my trip in 2008! The best vacation I have ever been on!
#13 is great!!
October 13th, 2011 10:43 am
did the radio show mention Charles Laquidara? Ahhh, I loved his show!
October 13th, 2011 10:46 am
I have been looking at alternative ways to access our well water, too. All of it is rather expensive. But it would beat carrying water – or moving to the water. If you wouldn’t mind, could you pass along where you purchased your pump?
October 13th, 2011 10:56 am
Janet: Charles Laquidara. That brings back memories. Seems WBCN came out of the wave of underground FM after the original shows got bumped for the corporate top 40 thing. Since then the underground FM seems to have gotten the same treatment.
Country Dew: We got the new pump from our local pump guy of Gibson’s Pump Service. The whole deal cost around $2,000. You can google “deep water pumps” and find something that maybe your husband would know how to install and save some of that.
October 13th, 2011 6:47 pm
7. all’s well that ends well. (pumps air) then it pumps water.
10. what a transcendent spot.
October 13th, 2011 10:34 pm
Love this post. Clever take on Steven’s 13 ways. Here one of mine:
http://liv2write2day.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-desert/
October 14th, 2011 7:32 am
From John Stewart to Yoko Ono. What a terrific collection of thoughts and quotes. The last – is especially inspiring!
October 14th, 2011 10:25 pm
I sure do love the Cliffs of Moher.