13 Thursday Blog Hop
1. On the last Saturday Night Live, Seth Meyers gave his take on Repubican Senator Ted Cruz’s 21-hour talk-a-thon last week protesting the Affordable Care Act: “Cause you know the old saying, if you can’t beat them, kick the ball into the woods.”
2. “When the Giants lost, they didn’t shut down the NFL!” ~ Jon Stewart on the government shut down.
3. Personally, I’m pretty excited about breaking up the insurance company monopolies, being able to shop for affordable health insurance options, not having to pay as much as a house mortgage for it and not having my rates be raised because of pre-existing conditions.
4. While on a walk with my 3 year old grandson Liam last week, he excitedly pointed out the quarter moon in the sky and told me that a plane had cut it in half.
5. I have to wonder who he takes after. I’ve written hundreds of poems about the moon and its phases, like this one called Overboard: Capsized moon / stranded in a blue sea / floats like a buoy / from the deep end of the day.
6. Grasshoppers hopscotch / Crickets crisscross / Petal skirts flirt / and bees do what they please. Read the rest of the poem HERE.
7. I used the word hopscotch on Tuesday when I was guest teaching a Language Arts Project class at Blue Mountain High School and played a word association game with the students. I also used “jump rope” when I told the kids that my love of language was first awakened by jump rope songs and the nursery rhymes my father taught me.
8. Yesterday I had to time my nude sunbathing before the arrival of the firewood delivery man.
9. Cricket or grasshopper, alligator or crocodile, water lily or lotus, fiddle or violin? It’s hard to tell the difference.
10. Sometimes when I’m home writing for days at a time, I stumble upon and tap into an archetypal place. Drawing from the well where storytellers, fairy characters, and creation myths live, I feel protected as a part of something larger. But often there’s a “disconnect” between what happens in that world and the personal me I have to inhabit to socialize and grocery shop.
11. I wonder why we have 3 alphabet letters – K, C, and Q – that make the same sound.
12. Those Stink Bugs are back. Let’s find out what their kryptonite is.
13. Always let your conscience be your guide. ~ Jiminy Cricket
October 3rd, 2013 3:49 am
I love the bit about the moon and the plane. Your grandson has the most awesome imagination!
Nude sunbathing? With my luck the firewood man would come early.
October 3rd, 2013 4:36 am
Nude sunbathing…only you would juxtapose that with firewood delivery! So please tell me what is your writing schedule…how often…how many hours a day. Yes, I also have that love hate relationship with society.
October 3rd, 2013 5:13 am
Maybe that’s why people fear the ACA…they’re afraid of choices…
We were at the Deerfield Fair recently and while Dave was eating some pierogies, a big black cricket fell on his back. It had been on the roof of the building he was standing near LOL!
October 3rd, 2013 5:55 am
I love the Nude bathing and The Firewood Delivery man, too….lol……Your Grandson has a lot of you in him….As young as he is—he is already a Poet…!
I love #9….and how true that all is….! Another very rich T13, dear Colleen.
October 3rd, 2013 6:03 am
Do kids still play hopscotch anymore? Do they even know what it is?
If they do, where they do is where I want to live. Like here in Barton (or down there in Floyd). But I’m betting most places ain’t got no hopscotchers.
October 3rd, 2013 6:33 am
I love #10! Wonderful to know someone can find that sweet spot. I think the only thing that gets rid of stink bugs is cold weather. But hopefully there’s something else.
October 3rd, 2013 8:13 am
#4 That Liam is so so clever
October 3rd, 2013 9:32 am
I thought the cold weather was what was bringing the stink bugs in. I’ll have to read up on it. They are worse than the ladybug infestation we had.
I live in a secluded spot surrounded by woods. The wood man did come early and I had hustle to put my clothes back on behind a big pine tree. He came with his wife and they never suspected a thing.
I don’t really have a writing schedule, Tabor. It’s just part of who I am and what I am always doing. Whenever their is solitude and after I clear away any funk (that just takes puttering time), the real me (or another level of me) can come forth. Sometimes it does and other times it doesn’t. I am always working on some story or another but that is formal writing and not what I mean here. And sometimes when I can’t find that “sweet spot,” as Country Dew called it, I write about what it feels like to not be writing, start from where I am.
October 3rd, 2013 12:36 pm
I like the last line in #5.
October 3rd, 2013 1:10 pm
I love to tap into that archetypical place, I liken it to the meditative state. Both happen quicker and deeper with practice. I can begin to work in the garden and soon start to feel my lineage of people who work the soil. Or draw or play music and evoke the artist and musician tradition. A rich 13 for sure.
October 3rd, 2013 1:47 pm
Number 4…too cute!
As for number 3… Here’s hoping it brings down costs. ABC did a spot the other night on Americans going to Costa Rica for procedures that cost a fraction of they would here–as in thousands of dollars less.
Now, if they really want to rile the republicans, how about we take on the dental industry next?
My T13: Autumn
October 3rd, 2013 10:36 pm
That’s exactly what I’m talking about, Chris. It happens in the garden for me too!
October 4th, 2013 6:03 am
1.Ted Cruz’s talk was bazaar.
2. You gotta love Jon Stewart; at least I do.
3. I’m thrilled for those who can get insurance for the first time.
4. I love the logic of 3 year olds.
5. A good first line for another moon poem: “How did the plane do that?”
6. A honey bowl of sun
7. Dear Diary, Today Colleen caught a cat covered with cream.
8. *o*
9. piano or organ
10. A Clarissa Pinkola Estés quote fits here: “When seeking guidance, don’t ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.” from Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
11. Kathy and Colleen do the quickstep. (we do???)
12. Try glass “C”leaner. I use it on all unwelcome guests.
13. Such a smart little cricket.