The Art of Thursday
1. I think THIS home movie of my grandsons Bryce and Liam is a good ad for the arts, drawing and dancing, what could be more fun?
2. I love to dance and when I go out dancing I like to dance next to people who also love to dance because it raises my game, as in the case with THIS little boy whose grandpa took this video that I just happened to be in.
3. My version of bringing home the bacon and frying it up in the pan is mowing the lawn, doing an interview for an article and planting corn all in one day.
4. It’s so weird that most blog spam comments are also compliments!
5. Writing is an art but it’s also like a science and writers are like the nutty professors of the word lab, the scientists looking for answers without knowing the questions. They start out not knowing exactly what they’re looking for. Combustion? A cure? Something that propels their learning forward? They’re compelled to spend hours in the word lab exploring the math of letters because adjective + noun + verb = more than the sum of its parts.
6. Great line recently seen on Facebook that I could totally relate to: I must admit it felt a little strange to eat fried chicken on the back porch with the hens free-ranging in the yard.
7. You know those science fiction companies in movies that want to clone and control everything? Remember the Schwarzenegger movie Total Recall where the powers that be had a monopoly on breathable air? I think those premises are not so far off what is happening today with Monsanto patenting their GMO seeds and suing farmers for doing what has been done since time immemorial, saving seeds and freely replanting them.
8. As a poet, the moon is my favorite live model. See the latest HERE.
9. I have a friend who used to have a vanity license plate that said “sacred.” Once she got two tickets in one day but one got thrown out because the cop wrote “scared” on the report.
10. The world’s largest flower HERE.
11. That was actually the tallest, the largest is HERE.
12. My new favorite quote that I wish I wrote: “For every 3 hours I spend with company I must spend 8 hours alone.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. Every day that we have a voice, sight, and are able to move, we should sing, dance, and read something that stirs our spirit. ~ My friend Patry Francis on Facebook
__________Thirteen Thursday
May 30th, 2013 12:21 am
That Emerson quote is SO me! My post: Spelling bee
May 30th, 2013 1:36 am
Lots of Great Stuff in your T13 today…! Adorable video of the boys….And I love the Emerson quote, a lot!
May 30th, 2013 1:50 am
The boys are just too cute. I love the spiderman dance.
May 30th, 2013 7:19 am
You have a smart friend, eg #13. I enjoyed your dancing too. I love that you love to dance.
May 30th, 2013 9:06 am
funny that the tallest and the largest flowers both smell gross!
May 30th, 2013 10:52 am
You always pick such interesting links. Thanks. I checked out the huge flower. I’ve never seen one of those before.
http://www.miaceleste.com/?p=341
May 30th, 2013 12:00 pm
Excellent list.
I think comment spam is mostly complimentary because they want you to visit their website. Unlike trolls who want to annoy you.
May 30th, 2013 12:01 pm
I like to spend 1 hour with company and 10 alone. 🙂
Holy cowabunga, that IS one big flower, man o man.
And watching you dance and have fun is a real treat.
craving bacon….
oxox
May 30th, 2013 5:54 pm
Note: Loose Leaf of rafflesia could knock you out.
I gots to get back to doin the 13s.
May 30th, 2013 9:51 pm
There is a rafflesia arnoldi at Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami and when it is in bloom, the lines start at the entrance to the gardens. I’ve never seen it in bloom – it stinks!!
May 31st, 2013 2:58 am
loved reading all 13, but #4 made me smile.. and the poem on your fav model – the moon – just wonderful!
June 2nd, 2013 9:53 am
4. so glad the bullying belligerence phase is gone.
6. I bet.
12. yay.