13 Sound Bites
1. How come so many words that mean wasting time sound like so much fun, like piddle, diddle, dawdle, dilly dally and lollygag?
2. We may not have to lock our doors in the country but we do have to shut them for fear of the bears getting in.
3. I’ll never get over the magic of collecting just laid eggs from my chickens. To me, every egg is a gold one in the fairytale of the life I have created.
4. Trying to put life into written words is like trying to pin the tail on the donkey while blindfolded. And sometimes we break the piñata.
5. Haiku seen on Facebook by a 4th grader who just may be a genius: Five syllables here / seven more syllables there / Are you happy now?
6. A shot in the dark: taking pictures of spider webs and evening fog after weeks of butterflies and flowers filling my lens with color.
7. When it comes to breakfast and earrings I’m monogamous. I eat the same one and wear the same ones everyday.
8. Me at my Women’s Dialogue on Sunday: I may eat the same predictable breakfast everyday but I also just had my first jello shot last night.
9. Don’t judge me in the moment as I am now because I’m so much more than that. I’m all that I have been and hopefully all that I have yet to be.
10. My 2 ½ year old grandson Liam wouldn’t eat the brown rice I recently served for lunch. He told me it was dirty.
11. I don’t have the motivation for outward epic living or to take on new projects now. I also don’t need a fix or the latest self-improvement. I don’t need more novelty or even more meaningful experiences because the challenge for me is to find meaning from within and to be present to what I already have. ~ From Dear Dread HERE.
12. “You don’t’ treat yourself as a commodity to be bought and sold and you don’t treat yourself as a self-improvement project, but you treat yourself and the world as a source of revelation.” ~ David Whtye
13. Last words posted online by my friend A’ Court, who passed away last month: much love, sow much love, show much love.
____________Thirteen Thursday
September 12th, 2013 12:36 am
I don’t know, but doesn’t piddle sound like something a puppy would do?
September 12th, 2013 3:34 am
I had to laugh at the comment Alice made—In truth,it sounds like something I could do, too…..lol!
Another WONDERFUL T13, my dear….I wish I had a ‘just laid egg’ right now!!!
September 12th, 2013 6:27 am
10 I love little’s opinions hahah
September 12th, 2013 8:18 am
Those are amazing last words. I eat the same breakfast every day and wear the same earrings, too. So much so that if I change something people notice.
September 12th, 2013 9:11 am
LOVE this post! Thanks for the laugh. I could relate to so many.
September 12th, 2013 9:38 am
So sorry about your friend. *HUGS* What wonderful last words to be remembered by. 🙂
September 12th, 2013 10:39 am
wouldn’t you have to be polygamous with earrings if you wear a pair?
10. reminds me of the issue in India. iodine is added to prevent health problems but illiterate poor wash the salt of its film because it looks dirty, and remove the health benefit.
September 12th, 2013 11:16 am
Love the haiku! Blooming Butterflies
September 13th, 2013 5:54 am
Each a unique pearl of wisdom…some freshwater and some are salt water and none are ‘dirty.”
September 13th, 2013 8:01 am
Your TT is always a good read!
September 17th, 2013 10:03 am
How incredibly awesome it is to stumble across your thoughts, Colleen…. You certainly have a flair for noticing life’s very unique and wonderfully intricate details…. Two thoughts: foster that 4th grader’s creativity at every chance… I do believe he is genious. Secondly: Thank you for sharing with us your time with A’court. How incredibly sinister and lonely your town of Floyd must be feeling at the recent loss of his presence. My heart goes out to you all, and his family.
October 3rd, 2013 5:23 am
did you tell him there was such a dish called dirty rice? Wonder what he’d think about that!