The 13 Thursday Threshold
1. I call the above photo: I Hope This is the Last Picture of Snow That I Post This Year.
2. My 3-year-old grandson Liam is no longer afraid of our chickens. He doesn’t stand on a chair and yell at them when he feeds them like he used to. In fact, he gets up close and calls them “dude.” Watch HERE.
3. The weight of a deadline is determined by the size of the writer’s block.
4. How do I stop and start again? What exists between on and off?
5. I write like I play Scrabble: Those first few plays should be good ones because they set the tone of the game in the same way the first few sentences set up a story. Endings are important too and I plan for them early. Whether playing Scrabble or writing, I don’t want to get stuck with any high scoring letters that should be on the board. ~ More on how I write like I play Scrabble HERE.
6. After learning from an artist friend that Monet’s garden was his muse and finding out that it is a Paris tourist attraction, I’ve become interested in seeing it. The last time I was in Paris was in 1974, and I have never gotten over walking past the Louvre without going in.
7. I may have not been to Paris since 1974, but The Jim and Dan Stories, the book I wrote about losing my two brothers a month apart, was there in 2006. See HERE.
8. The Louvre has always showcased nudes. Never quite like THIS
9. Last Friday we got 8 inches of snow. I posted this picture of a robin in the snow on Facebook and called it “Mixed Message.” A friend commented that he thought it meant birdsong or chimes, but I meant winter or spring?
10. Empress: Crowned Oracle / at the Lover’s Threshold / Spring is Her / Open Doorway
11. In my dream last night I was upset because Joe had a friendship with a woman he was calling Mama Bear and he was going by the name Papa Bear.
12. I think art attacks might be good to ward off heart attacks.
13. “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” Claude Monet
__________Thirteen Thursday
March 13th, 2014 2:15 am
GASP! How could you visit Paris without visiting the Louvre? Also worth seeing is the Musee D’Orsay, where the Impressionists are now housed, including my personal favorite, Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night.” We had also planned to rent bicycles and ride to Giverney to see Monet’s gardens, but ended up not having enough time, even going nonstop from dawn ’til midnight. You really need more than a week to do Paris right! A Bookish T13
March 13th, 2014 7:33 am
Love them all but especially the last ones. Hey, start saving your money, Paris is calling.
March 13th, 2014 11:18 am
I write like I play solitaire. Hope for the right cards at the right time; hope I can see the pattern.
I’m with you on the had-enough-snow-already thing, CR.
March 13th, 2014 11:25 am
yikes, bare feet and legs in the frigid cold! earlier this week we had 65 degrees, now it’s 13 degrees- poor robin got the wrong message! however, I’ve not seen any here in Indiana.
March 13th, 2014 11:50 am
I took the picture when it was sunbathing weather with snow on the ground, but today it’s gone cold again!~
March 13th, 2014 12:25 pm
2 hilarious lovely bird in snow
March 13th, 2014 1:11 pm
I’m still trying to wrangle a visit to Paris out of my hubby – maybe you and I will end up there at the same time, in the Louvre?
One can hope and dream, anyway. 😉
Happy Thursday!
March 13th, 2014 1:14 pm
Another GREAT T13, my dear….My very favorite? Liam and the Chickens……SOOOOO SWEET!!!!!
I hope this is the last of the snow for you all, my dear…..I love seeing your legs and feet as if kit were summer…lol!
March 13th, 2014 3:01 pm
Try not to think too much about on and off. It’ll just slow you down.
March 13th, 2014 6:35 pm
You really must go back to Paris. I went when I was very young, and would dearly love to visit again now that I am older. The years change the way we look at things.
March 14th, 2014 1:48 pm
#6 Never gotten over going to Paris twice and not going up the Eiffel Tower!
March 14th, 2014 4:53 pm
We saw it but didn’t go up in 1974 either but I never minded that as much as missing the Louvre.