13 Sweet Tweets
1. This weekend I went to a Quaker meeting, celebrated a friend’s 87th birthday, attended a draft horse plowing at a school farm and found out I’m an INTJ (introverted/intuitive/thinking/judging Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) personality.
2. I’m not so sure I like being an INTJ. The only writers listed in the group of nerdy scientists and masterminds, like Issac Newton, Nikola Tesla and Steven Hawking, are Ayn Rand and Jane Austen.
3. Speaking of Jane, HERE you go.
4. In the last decade or so, I’ve accepted the nutty professor in me. So much so that I wrote in a blog bio that reads: Blogging brings out my nutty professor side and appeals to the record keeper in me. I consider my blog to be my writer’s petrie dish, my lab where new work is developed and sometimes launched from.
5. I’ve also nicknamed my computer station (a wrap around 3 piece desk) “the bridge,” after the Starship Enterprise.
6. As a native Bostonian I was interested to read former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s poem about the Red Sox winning the 2013 World Series: Our F*****g City deserves a celebration: A proper improper Time, for this Occasion. Our F*****g City didn’t pay top dollar to any weak-in-the-clutch theology scholar, this year, to shrug off losses as “what God wrote. No, this was a year to take Fate by the throat. – Pinsky, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, incorporated the words of team member David Ortiz on the Boston bombing when he said, “This is our f**king city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong.”
7. One of my most important writer’s disciplines: I drop everything to take notes when an idea is coming through. Inspiration is hard to recreate, and a phrase or line may never be as pure as when it first comes to you (even if it need editing).
8. “I didn’t understand his erratic behavior or the intensity of his moods, which shifted, like his speech patterns, from speedy to laconic. But I understood his devotion to poetry and the transporting quality of his performances. He had black eyes, black T-shirt, pale skin. He was curious, sometimes suspicious, a voracious reader, and a sonic explorer. An obscure guitar pedal was for him another kind of poem. He was our connection to the infamous air of the Factory. He had made Edie Sedgwick dance. Andy Warhol whispered in his ear. Lou brought the sensibilities of art and literature into his music. He was our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted. Patti Smith on Lou Reed.Reed died last week.
9. I’m pretty sure my grandson is happy that I won’t be asking him till next year, “Do you want to hear my witches laugh?”
10. My take on “When I’m Older I Shall Wear Purple” HERE.
11. I think the Red Sox winning World Series in 2004, for the first time in 80 something years, had something to do with the majority of players growing their hair long hair. This year they won again and hair factored in via beards. And no one made the Samson comparison? According to the Bible, Samson had supernatural strength and lost it after his hair was cut.
12. I don’t know if it’s true but I have read that hair is an extension of the nervous system, a type of highly evolved ‘feelers’ or ‘antennae’ that can transmit important information to the brain, and that Native Americans lost their super tracking powers when their long hair was cut short.
13. The simple man on his way home after work is wondering what is for dinner. The complex man on his way home from work is debating the complexities and the imponderables of life. The enlightened man on his way home from work is wondering what is for dinner. – An excerpt that I recently underlined in Jungian Analyst Robert Johnson’s memoir, Balancing Heaven and Earth.
_________Thirteen Thursday
November 7th, 2013 12:40 am
A full 13, their sum a huge offering of meaty substance. Definitely a different tone, then other 13 of past.
Baseball, am a fan of -my team is just down the yellow brick road in Toronto, so hip hip Red Soxs (yawn). I like the game, but the salary level (any pro sports) leaves me thinking of those who have nothing -not even hope.
Quaker meeting – I live on hallow Quaker ground. The first pioneers in the township were Quakers. A book sits on my desk which describes the area in the early 1800’s as South of Sodom -figures I live here.
November 7th, 2013 1:48 am
Love the photo at top of your post today, Colleen. I never would have pegged you as an introvert. As for number 12…I don’t know about longer hair acting as an antennae, but I know that the longer mine is, the more headaches I tend to get, and the more intense they become. Which is why I usually prefer it chin or shoulder length. My T13: Winter Weather Preparedness
November 7th, 2013 10:13 am
great win hair or not !!
November 7th, 2013 11:32 am
Seems to me Jane isn’t such bad company to keep.
November 7th, 2013 1:40 pm
We have the same desk configuration! And with my computer screen front & center, I sometimes feel like Kirk!
And the hair thing’s right on, I think. It’s gotta serve some such purpose, right? I know I always feel more atuned with my environment when my hair’s longer. I cut it about a year and a half ago (first haircut in a decade and a half) & felt immediately distanced. I think I’ve had my last haircut.
November 7th, 2013 2:13 pm
I would have pegged you as either an INTJ or an INTP, so that does not surprise me. I think people like us add the question marks to life.
So is the idea then that the simple man is also the enlightened man, since they both are wondering what is for dinner?
November 7th, 2013 2:23 pm
Which type are you, Anita? I resisted it, got the same type about 5 years ago, but was frustrated by not fully understanding some of the differences, like thinking and sensing, so couldn’t verify if my type was correct. Recently someone tested Joe’s students and the technique she used really helped me understand the different styles. Also a part of me rejected the type (denial). You know only 1% of the small percentage (4 or so) people who are INTJ are women.
I think #13 refers to something like someone like Picasso has to learn to paint before he can unlearn it and create masterpieces, or that enlightenment is simpler than we think.
November 7th, 2013 4:38 pm
#7 does not work when you are in the dental chair!
November 7th, 2013 11:30 pm
Was Pinsky an actor too? Name sounds familiar…
Did you post #13 on FB today? I saw it there but don’t remember who posted it…
November 7th, 2013 11:59 pm
I did post #13 on Facebook. Don’t know of an actor named Pinsky.
November 8th, 2013 9:49 am
I took that Myers-Briggs test years ago and saved the results. I can’t find them now but I suspect I’m also an INTJ – or close.
Oz is growing his beard longer. He hasn’t said it has given him more strength but he likes it and has said he has always wanted to grow it long. I say, “go for it.”
Others have suggested that he did it to root on the Sox. Now they are thinking he wants to look like Santa. Haha.
Good TThirteen.
November 8th, 2013 10:22 am
I’d say you are likely IN, Kath, but F for feeling instead of T for Thinking, and I’m not sure about the last one, either Perceiving or Judging.