Loose Leaf Notes

 1. After my grandsons’ recent sleepover I was left with a bruised rib from wrestling, a few half eaten apples in odd places around the house and bunch of broken water balloons in the yard.

2. The term “Wild Animal Park,” which someone I know spoke of recently, is an oxymoron.

3. I recently told someone that my grandson Liam is afraid when the “popcorn pops the pot top off.”   Can you say that three times fast?

4. The Black Water Loft in downtown Floyd has a popular chai and espresso drink they call the “dirty hippie.”

5. A Happy Birthday Floyd greeting seen on Facebook:  Hippy Bath Day!

6. When referring to the influx of young people who came to Floyd County throughout the 70’s and 80’s, I prefer the term back-to-the-landers over hippies and especially liked the word, coined by my Dharmacratic friend Will, “alter-native,” a play on alternative and native.

7. A poet … never speaks directly, as to someone at the breakfast table.  ~ Yeats via Billy Collins

8. The muse brings vital inspiration that renews me, but it isn’t normally a part of my daily conversation like the weather.  As sustaining as it is, I don’t budget it in like my food bill.  I don’t buy it flowers often enough.

9. Do you have trouble saying ‘no.’ Let my grandson Bryce give you a lesson. It’s hilarious HERE.

10. According to THIS, the word “hippie” was a form of Ebonics (black slang) from Harlem that passed it’s way through the beat era into the 1960’s, until Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle used it enough times by late 1965 to describe the young arrivals in their city that the national media soon swallowed it whole and patented it, and the hippie movement was inspired by Germans and German immigrants spreading a message called Lebensreform (life-reform).   

11. Today, I got tired of chasing the chickens off my porch, so I threw a shoe at one, in exasperation, which was when it occurred to me that maybe the word “shoo” came about in this exact way.  

12.  If you liked Bryce in #9, you’ll love seeing the show he put on HERE. 

13. Joe gets in the act HERE.

______________Thirteen Thursday