13: The Whole Ball of Wax and Wane
1. Everything that Joe and I do stopped when he got the flu, I had a cold and a spring snow storm blew in. After almost of a week of being home like that, it began to feel like a bizzaro vacation world, where the highlight of our simplified day was eating breakfast together, lying around, taking pictures of birds in the snow (me) and watching an episode or two of HOUSE.
2. My 2-year old grandson Liam calls his white balloon a moon. He loves the moon and everything in the sky. I think he’ll either be a poet or a pilot.
3. The whole ball of wax is also known as the whole enchilada, the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole nine yards, the whole shooting match and the kitchen sink.
4. The moon is a full purse we all are made rich with. It’s a crown chakra in a night tiara.
5. The moon never looks the same twice to me and I’m fascinated by its mystery. One of my life practices has been studying it and finding new ways to describe it on a regular basis. This has been going on since the late 1980’s and has resulted in 100’s of haiku-like poetic translations about the moon (like THIS most recent one) and its mythology. I guess I need to start collecting them or at least give them their own blog category.
6. I’m a minimalist at heart. As a writer, I like to practice the conservation of language, to distill thoughts down into a potency of meaning. On the other hand, maybe I write mostly short poems because I’m lazy.
7. Do you know what the longest English word that does not use any of the standard vowels: a, e, i, o or u, is?
8. What do the words madam, racecar, never odd or even, kayak and radar have in common?
9. I grew up in the 60s, so I completely related to this question I saw on Facebook: How many hours did you spend just throwing a ball at the wall? My friends and I spent so many hours playing the 7-up ball game that I actually often dreamt that I was still hitting the ball against the house. HERE’S how you play.
10. What if the dots in Seurat’s famous pointillist paintings could be zoomed in on and shown to be plastic bottles, like THIS work of art?
11. The moon is poetry to the sun’s prose. It shines indirectly but penetrates deep.
12. I never believed that dogs barked at the moon as much as that the moon lights up the night, causing the dogs to see (and bark at) all the critters sleuthing about.
13. “I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.” Ursula Le Guin
Note: The answer to #7 is rhythm. More blogging 13 on Thursday are HERE.
March 27th, 2013 5:27 pm
“Kit & Kiboodle” was how I learned the phrase….lol!
I said RHYTHM to myself when I saw #7….!
About Seurat—all of his little dots actually added up to a Masterpiece of a painting of lots and lots of people and a place…The picture of the Bottles is truly shocking—especially the fact that it represents what we use every five minutes!!! OY!
I think you should publish all your writings about The Moon in one special little book!
Another great T13, my dear Colleen….
March 27th, 2013 10:30 pm
Answer to #8 — they’re all palindromes. Interesting quote from LeGuin. My T13
March 28th, 2013 12:38 am
Thank you for answering #7. That was about to drive me batty.
March 28th, 2013 4:20 am
#8 what Heather said. Very cool words that are the same backwards as forwards.
It’s a full moon here tonight. Very pretty. it looks huge.
March 28th, 2013 7:32 am
I had a dog who used to howl at the moon; it was an eerie, other-wordly sound that made the hairs on my arms stand up. She did it only in the summer and only during a full moon. It wasn’t a bark, it was like a cry to the goddess. It was also the saddest call I think I have ever heard in my life.
The moon is responsible sometimes for my migraines; neither my husband nor I sleep well when the moon is full; my arthritis is worse during a full moon, too. I think she does exert a force upon us and all animals, just one that we’re not cognizant of in our hurry-up world.
March 28th, 2013 9:47 am
I tried to visit your page last week and my browser told me it didn’t exist. I think it was trying to tell me to rest.
Coming here today made me smile.
I knew “rhythm.”
I love the moon. My grandmother used to sing to me “I see the moon and the moon sees me,” and I truly thought it did!
Would you be willing to do a Conversations Over Coffee interview for me (via email) for All Things Girl? I think you’d be a fantastic addition to the series.
March 28th, 2013 10:21 am
I love that Le Guin quote – so true!
I also loved number four, here. Beautiful.
Happy TT to you. 🙂
March 28th, 2013 11:31 am
1. you make it sound good.
I didn’t notice racecar before.
March 28th, 2013 11:39 am
Glad you and MissMeliss found each other…funny that two t13 participants both mentioned Seurat’s pointillist paintings the same week!
I had a helluva day yesterday with the full moon…I LOVE it, but oh my god! Feel much better today 🙂
As always, thanks for playing!
oh, and I always heard it as “kit and kaboodle” too 🙂
March 28th, 2013 12:22 pm
I love your picture this week and your blog title. Both make me think. 🙂 And you did this all while you were recovering from the flu? I hope I can be as productive if I get sick.
http://www.miaceleste.com/?p=239
March 28th, 2013 2:35 pm
1. I hope Joe is feeling better now.
2. Chrissie used to ask me why the moon came everywhere with us at night?
3. I thought it was “kit and kaboodle.” Have I been wrong all these years?
6. I’d say I’m the opposite. I elaborate too much. It hasn’t served me well.
7. It must have a “y” in it, but I don’t know.
8. the second letter and last letter are the same in each word.
9. My favorite game with a ball was “Dear Diary.”
March 28th, 2013 4:34 pm
I thought we used kit and kaboodle too!!??
I absolutely LOVED 7up! Maybe when we visit each other again we can play a game.
Sophia is fascinated with the moon too! I thought it was because she was a Cancer! xo
March 28th, 2013 5:37 pm
It is “kit and kaboodle.” That was s typo …will fix!
March 28th, 2013 6:08 pm
# 3 Is like hearing Daddy talk! He used those expressions all the time.
March 28th, 2013 9:31 pm
My answer to #7 is syzygy, which is exactly as long as rhythm. I really like the word syzygy, which is a term Carl Jung used to mean “a union of opposites.”
March 28th, 2013 11:08 pm
That’s a new one one me (and an inspiration for Scrabble playing). Thanks, Bonnie.
Definition of SYZYGY
1. (Astronomy) either of the two positions (conjunction or opposition) of a celestial body when sun, earth, and the body lie in a straight line the moon is at syzygy when full
2. (Literature / Poetry) (in classical prosody) a metrical unit of two feet
3. Rare any pair, usually of opposites
4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Biology the aggregation in a mass of certain protozoans, esp when occurring before sexual reproduction
March 29th, 2013 12:26 am
I used to throw a ball against the wall a lot as a kid. Seems like it was much easier to entertain us, back in the day.
Great list, really enjoyable reading.
Happy TT.
March 29th, 2013 2:09 am
Colleen, I added “syzygy” to my word blog, using our discussion here. I think you’ll like the graphic I found to illustrate the word:
http://joyfulnoiseletter.blogspot.com/2013/03/syzygy.html
March 29th, 2013 5:14 am
I, too, am lunatic.
Bottles. Oy.
March 29th, 2013 12:54 pm
Holy mackerel–I LOVED both of your moon musings:
“The moon is a crown chakra in a night tiara.”
“The moon is poetry to the sun’s prose. It shines indirectly but penetrates deep.”
*happy sigh* I’m a big fan of night time and the moon.
April 1st, 2013 8:32 am
Love your moon quote. 🙂 I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to reply to your TT list. I’ll try and do better next time. Have a great week!