13: Looking Back
1. “I think we’re dealing with two deficits and debts, the financial and the eco-logical. In both cases we’re used to spending much more than we can take it, but it’s far more difficult when you use up your ecological capital because you can’t just make more land or make more clean air and water. ~ Anthony Flaccavento, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Rick Boucher’s old seat in Congress. More HERE.
2. Two poems that changed my life # 4 HERE.
3. Buddha Goes to the Hospital: “The hospital admissions sheet simply read: “Name: Buddha; DOB: 1662.” The 350-year-old patient’s visit started with a routine x-ray in the summer of 2008. But doctors discovered there were signs of an unknown mass inside his head and yet another inside his stomach – objects that his new caretakers were intent on identifying and extracting if at all possible … after three scans at two medical centers, doctors, with the help of Buddha’s caretakers, were able to identify the mysterious masses: rare religious texts.”
4. Finding my best angle HERE. I had no idea the camera was turned on.
5. Gloria Steinem on why women should vote for Obama HERE.
6. And more on how Jimmy Carter left the church, after all these years, because of its treatment of women HERE.
7. Hemingway’s alleged six word memoir was “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Mine is cross between “College drop out; flunked middle class” and “Backseat poet; the muse is driving.”
8. Or maybe it’s “Gidget goes Woodstock; ends up country” or “Doesn’t do knick knacks or math.” What’s your six word memoir?
9. If blogging is like sending out a message in a bottle, are our “words still drifting out there looking for a beach?” asks blogger Fred First.
10. This month marks my 7th year blogging. According to my categories stats, Thirteen Thursday is my most common category posted at 333, followed by Photo Journal at 328, Poetics and 207 and Floyd Press Stories at 170.
11. Interesting things have happened while on interviews over the past 6 years, since I’ve been writing for the local paper. I’ve been served moonshine, been given homemade cheese, I’ve made handmade paper bookmarks and been invited to get in harness and climb a tree (declined it).
12. Yesterday after an interview, someone clipped a piece of my hair for a hair analysis.
13. Have you gotten your skit together? No fooling. If you did I hope to see it at the Blue Mountain School Skit Night fundraiser this Sunday at the Dogtown Sun Hall on April 1st at 6:00.
More Thirteen Thursdays HERE.
March 29th, 2012 12:56 am
I’ll tell you MY six-word memoir in a minute, but first I’ll tell you YOURS from four years ago. In 2008, you wrote 16 of these, but my favorite was the first on your list: “Once I started, I couldn’t stop.” Apparently, you are still writing them! So it is absolutely true that “once you started, you couldn’t stop.”
Yours: http://looseleafnotes.com/notes/2008/04/this_could_be_the_next_chicken.html
Mine: http://wordsfromawordsmith.blogspot.com/2008/02/sharing-through-blogs.html
Which says:
“internal dialogue,
discovered blogging,
shared dialogue”
March 29th, 2012 8:17 am
Interesting things that have happened to me while writing for local papers: visiting a real bat cave, flying in a hot air balloon, have my back adjusted, having Reiki, nearly being arrested.
March 29th, 2012 12:02 pm
Hair analysis? Sounds intriguing – although it could be kind of creepy, depending how you look at it.
March 29th, 2012 3:58 pm
congrats on 7 years. that’s a dog age. a young dog’s age.
March 29th, 2012 5:06 pm
Congrats on 7 years of blogging. That’s dedication!
March 29th, 2012 10:12 pm
Good list. I loved your six word memoir. Thanks for sharing.
The Food Temptress
March 30th, 2012 8:07 am
Yes congrats on 7 years of blogging!!
I also checked out the OLD “six word Memoir” and I had put a couple up there. I don’t remember that at all. (there pretty good)! I love that it has your facebook profile picture!! xo