Loose Leaf Notes

1. A California mayor says piped in recorded birdsong has lowered crime in his city.

2. A crow goes sledding HERE. You have to see it to believe it.

3. Seen on Facebook next to a picture of Gingrich:  Family Values – Using daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife is lying about your third wife.

4. His name makes me think of the Grinch of rich. My friend Alwyn says he looks like Caesar and we should beware of his aspirations for empire.

5. Speaking of Rome, my dharmacratic friend Will recently posted on Facebook: “Romantic love is just the bait the soul covers its hook with.”  When someone questioned his post in a comment he replied:  “I’m a barbarian who is suspicious of anything connected with Rome.”

6. Last night the moon looked like a Mona Lisa smile with Venus as the unblinking part of a wink.

7. I have a painting I bought directly from an artist named Shelton Miles when I lived in Texas. He signed all his painting SMiles.

8. The picture above is of my son Josh (right) and his friend Kamal putting on a play at Blue Mountain School back in the day.   It’s part of a series of photos I’ve been scanning for the school’s upcoming 30^th year anniversary.

9. My grandson Bryce used to cry when the butter on his bagel melted.  His 15 month old brother Liam cries when we pop popcorn on the stovetop.  (It makes a lot of noise and sometimes the cover pops off).

10. “Take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building right here at home.”  ~ Quote from Obama’s State of the Union speech last night. More quotes HERE.

11. I had a dream about the copperhead I killed in the fall.  In the dream it morphed into a Native American woman in buckskin who, after appearing, disappeared into the log walls of my home. I remember thinking I didn’t have to or want to kill her but would have to learn how to live cautiously with her. In the dream I made everyone put shoes on.  The next morning when I woke up, I looked at the floor before putting my feet down.

12. It’s so hard to be in the present, rather than worrying about the future or trying to recreate something pleasant from the past, which is the reason I wrote THIS poem

13. Quote seen on Facebook: worrying is like praying for what you don’t want.

~ More playing 13 Thursday HERE.