13 Thursday Tidbits
1. I saw my blog in a dream with a post titled The Zee Bra.
2. I think it’s fitting that the word poser is within the word imposter.
3. Check out how THIS artist folds a life-sized elephant out of a single massive sheet of paper.
4. I love Wendell Berry’s take on old age: “I know I am getting old and I say so, but I don’t think of myself as an old man. I think of myself as a young man with unforeseen debilities. Time is neither young nor old, but simply new, always counting, the only apocalypse…Even the old body is new – 
who has known it before? – and no sooner new than gone, to be replaced by a body yet older and again new.”
5. My 3-year-old grandson Liam learning the alphabet: “M sounds like MMMM. Like cupcakes!”
6. How a scientist at the dentist explains climate change in 30 seconds with a mouth mirror wedged behind his molars: “Well first, scientists have known for centuries that certain gases in the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, prevent Earth’s heat from escaping to space. In fact, the Earth would be entirely frozen without these natural gases. But second, emissions from human activities like cutting down forests and driving cars, which we can measure directly, are thickening the layer of these gases in the atmosphere, which we can also measure directly, and this is trapping even more heat in the Earth and warming up our planet. Thousands of scientists worldwide are in agreement that this is happening. Third, observations of increasing temperatures, sea level rise, and melting glaciers confirm this added warming.”
7. Floyd friend Hari Berzins, author of the Tiny House Blog, and her husband Karl were on the Today Show talking about how their family of 4 lives happily and debt-free in 336 square feet of space HERE. See the their story in The Ladies Home Journal HERE.
8. I hadn’t been to a horror movie since my teenager days watching B movie axe murders at the Weymouth Drive-in in Massachusetts. But THIS movie, the House of Good and Evil, was filmed in Floyd and a friend of ours had a key role. There was an axe in the movie, but the film was more of a physiological thriller, thankfully, than typical horror fare, not so much a ‘who done it?’ but more of a ‘what did they do and when?’ in the spirit of Rosemary’s Baby, Gaslight or Sixth Sense. A New Take on a Movie Date HERE.
9. A new take on the baby carriage HERE.
10. I think of my laying hens as pets with benefits.
11. What does it mean that the word cult is in culture?
12. An ice crystal wonderland, like sparklers on the 4th of July, fairy flowers for a snow queen. Check out my photos of this rare and beautiful weather phenomena, technically known as hoar frost, rime ice or fog frost, HERE.
13. “You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes each day, unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.” ~ An old Zen saying.
__________Thirteen Thursday
March 20th, 2014 8:59 am
Number Six is great. Funny-the conversations we go for in the dental chair. Thanks.
http://otherworlddiner.blogspot.com/2014/03/httpswww.html
March 20th, 2014 10:50 am
1) The paper elephant: YOW!!!!
2) What wouldn’t I give to be small enough to ride again in a wheelbarrow…and young enough to enjoy it as much as these guys clearly do!
March 20th, 2014 11:49 am
That is one massive origami elephant.
March 20th, 2014 12:07 pm
Some good stuff happening in Floyd. I wish the rest of Southwest Virginia would take note.
March 20th, 2014 12:22 pm
I have been exercising to a new Yoga CD much more like an aerobics form of Yoga and the narrator is full of this wonderful but distracting sayings about meditation and life.
March 20th, 2014 1:07 pm
I love the hens as pets with benefits! I might be there too!
March 20th, 2014 1:33 pm
Colleen, on # 6 concerning certain gases in the atmosphere…my take is that there are way too many cows giving off “methane” and an “exorbitant amount of “chili cook offs”!
March 20th, 2014 1:40 pm
That too!
March 20th, 2014 1:47 pm
10, nice.
I love tiny house.
March 20th, 2014 2:35 pm
I like the boiled-down explanation in #6, and couldn’t help chuckling over #13. Another Bookish T13
March 20th, 2014 4:56 pm
#1. Oh those dreams!
# 2. You find more words within words than I do, although I’m always on the lookout.
#3. My family and I had a good laugh two Christmases past, when I made some origami pieces for my grandchildren. I’m sure you’d get a laugh at my heartfelt attempt at this art. And elephants !!! Wow.
#4. Wendell Berry’s take on old age is refreshing.
#5. MMMM good.
#6. It’s happening quicker than they want us to believe.
#7. Time off to write a book – that seems worth the tight quarters.
BTW, Chrissie & Ron are living in a camper these days and doing well.
#8. I’m not big on scary movies but neat that it was filmed in Floyd.
In the early 90’s Housesitter with Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin was shot in Cohasset, Massachusetts.That was pretty exciting, especially when I saw Goldie at the grocery store.
#9. Good for Joe. I’m sure the kids loved it.
#10. Eggs and more eggs.
#11. Religious beliefs are cultural. Good one.
#12. You caught so many beauties. A “crystal wonderland” as someone said.
#13. It sounds kinda oxymoronish, but true, nonetheless.
March 21st, 2014 9:41 am
Eek! #11 is going to stick with me in my thoughts for a while. :O) There’s a story in there somewhere.
New follower from Thursday 13!
March 21st, 2014 8:16 pm
I absolutely LOVE #9!! And I want to take my kids on a wheelbarrell ride!!
March 22nd, 2014 4:11 am
Love that top picture of your Grandson and the darling chickens….And your line about your Laying Hens being your Pets With Benefits is great!
That is a Beautiful Soulful Elephant—rather amazing, to say the least….!
And I LOVE your Ice Pictures, Colleen….they are exquisite and so very “artful”…..!