Through the Thirteen Thursday Lens
1. “13 Words That Need To Be Brought Back Into Fashion,” including Dandiprat, a silly, finicky person, and an anythingarian, one that holds no particular creed or dogma, are HERE.
2. How times have changed: Most of us likely associate the word “groovy” with 1960s flower children, but had you hollered out the word a century earlier, your contemporaries would have thought that you were talking about a sardine!
3. I just noticed that exclamation points look like upside down candles when I wished my grandson a happy 5th birthday with 5 exclamation points!!!!!
4. I’m a big fan of Zach Sobiech, a seventeen year old from Minnesota who was diagnosed with incurable cancer and was told he had only months to live. After listening to the song he wrote, “Clouds” (that was uploaded to YouTube on December 5, 2012 and has since been viewed by nearly 3 million people), and after watching THIS video documentary of his life, titled My Last Days, I feel like I know him and admit that I periodically check his Facebook page to make sure he’s still here.
5. Sobiech wrote the song to say goodbye to family and friends. The chorus goes: “And we’ll go up, up, up. But I’ll fly a little higher. We’ll go up in the clouds because the view is a little nicer. Up here my dear. It won’t be long now, it won’t be long now.” Jason Mraz and others sang the song for Zach in a recent tribute HERE. Speaking on the tribute video Mraz said to Sobiech, “we’re doing this not because you’re dying but because of the way you are living.”
6. I think being moved to tears is one of life’s greatest gifts, which is why it’s ironic that I always fight them back.
7. I’ve been trying to remember the names of my elementary school teachers. So far I have, Mrs. Golden, Miss Smith, Miss Fleck, Miss Welch and Miss Jubette (the spelling on this one is sketchy).
8. My friend Alwyn always gives her cats such interesting names. She had a Cali and Lucia (who looked like he was wearing a tux, and a wild cat named Misery, which sounds like poetry if you put aside the meaning of the word. Her current cat is named Pet Pet Petunia. She sometimes calls him Peter.
9. Klimt yourself HERE.
10. When inventing a God, the most important thing is to claim it is invisible, inaudible and imperceptible in every way. Otherwise, people will become skeptical when it appears to no one, is silent and does nothing. ~ Anonymous
11. I was never any good at lying to my kids even for the sake of tradition. When they asked about Santa, I told them he was real but that he was a spirit. Who can argue that the spirit of Christmas isn’t real?
12. In a country where millions don’t believe in evolution, global warming, and the birth certificate of our president, what makes Santa Claus your cause celebre? ~ Rabbi Rami Shapiro
13. God is closer to Jackson Pollock than paint-by-number. ~ Rabbi Rami Shapiro
_______________Thirteen Thursday
May 16th, 2013 12:14 am
Dandiprat, hmmm, perhaps the reason that scoundrel Hudson Howl wears a dandy hat and a ascot.
My grade one teacher Miss Hicks, I was in love with, all others paled.
As for Zach, well everyone deserves a cloud of their own. Don’ they?
May 16th, 2013 5:48 am
I Klimted My Beloved Sandra into “The Kiss” (a print of which has hung over our bed since we started sharing it two decades ago) and sent it to her. Thirty seconds later she rushed into my office & had her way with me, then and there.
WOO-HOOOOOOO!!!!! THANKS!!!!
May 16th, 2013 6:21 am
And the Thursday 13 award goes to…that cutie-patootie, Colleen Redman!
May 16th, 2013 8:23 am
I am an anythingagrarin and didn’t know I had a word for it. Whew! What a relief.
My elementary teachers: Mrs. Zircle, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Fairfax, Mrs. Lanning, Mrs. Prease, Mrs. Nofsinger. Of those, I liked Mrs. Wright, Fairfax, and Lanning the best. It is good to remember.
May 16th, 2013 8:56 am
I had Mrs. Jubette too.
The other teacher I remember was my second grade teacher in Quincy, Miss D’Meatree. I’m sure I have the wrong spelling but I remember wondering if meat could grow on trees.
I’m saying “me too” to # 6 and # 11.
May 16th, 2013 8:59 am
Miss Jubette was the one I had the hardest time remembering. Spelled out the name just looked wrong. Most of my teachers were older (or at least I thought so then) and unmarried. Meat Tree, ha ha! That’s probably how you had to remember it by thinking of a meat tree.
May 16th, 2013 10:03 am
Hey, I went to Zach’s site. “We go up, up, up,” has me thinking good, but bittersweet thoughts.
Thanks for sharing.
May 16th, 2013 11:01 am
I mostly cry when I watch a silly romantic movie, lol !
May 16th, 2013 11:15 am
Ooh, like the anythingarian. Definitely should bring it back.
I’ll Klimpt myself, or maybe kitty. 🙂
12, hilarious and apt.
May 16th, 2013 11:48 am
Oh, Colleen….This is such a very special and moving T13….And I think being brought to tears is really important and truly wonderful. I don’t ever fight it!
May 16th, 2013 12:52 pm
Love the quote in number ten, and there are so MANY great words that should be brought back into use again. Spring walk
May 16th, 2013 4:23 pm
sardines were groovy? Interesting!
I don’t remember the names of any of my elementary school teachers…
May 16th, 2013 8:39 pm
Another fabulous TT! xo
PS Mrs Harris, Mr Benham, Mr Walsh, Mrs Gould, Miss Ingwonti, (SP) Mr Younie, Mr Brightman. I liked mostly all those teachers.
May 17th, 2013 9:25 am
Great TT!! I told my kids the same about Santa.
May 18th, 2013 5:40 pm
Oh my! Your TT made me smile, moved me to tears, inspired, brought out, I guess, 13 different feelings in me 🙂
Thank you. I am off to klimt myself now:)