13 Thursday Photo-op
1. I have blisters on my fingers, not because someone handed me a cheeseburger, but because I just turned over soil for three rows of corn and beans and weeded a row of potatoes.
2. Sometimes I put my ear towards the moon and try to hear the ocean.
3. For me, a simple pen is like the invention of the wheel, making my hand a vehicle for my mind.
4. “You don’t really choose. You just go where the smoke is.” ~ Leonard Cohen on songwriting
5. I’ve never thought I was Cleopatra or Joan of Arc in a past life, but I have thought I share an enneagram number with Albert Einstein and a Myers Briggs type with Carl Jung.
6. I love THIS. It brings new meaning to phrase “dancing in the light.”
7. As much as I love that, I love THIS even better.
8. I’ve always called myself a pessimistic optimist. I recently saw the word “apocoloptomist” on Facebook, described as someone who knows the world is going to hell but still thinks it will turn out ok.
9. When Joe recently told me that he was going to play golf, I said, “You dog!” He looked dejected until I added, “No, I don’t mean you’re in the doghouse, I mean you lucky dog! Go for it!” ~ From a 2006 13 Thursday post.
10. I think it’s fitting that the word golf spells flog (to beat with a stick) backwards.
11. Acupuncture, carrot cake, putt putt golf and ballroom dancing, all against the backdrop of garden dirt-lined fingers tapping at the keyboard, a browser that kept wanting to crash, a black snake in the chicken coop and a mystery culprit that kept emptying the birdfeeder of every last drop of seed. I really don’t know how to explain my birthday … More HERE.
12. Vanity license plate seen today PAWSIBL.
13. My grandson Bryce (6) and Liam’s (3) dramatic play with action figures is often based on video games. There are challenges and obstacles to overcome, as well as levels to master. Sometime Bryce makes the games start in slow motion and explains to me that they downloading. Today, while reading Liam a story, he got up in the middle of it to get a snack and said to me, “Pause your mouth, Nana.”
____________Thirteen Thursday
May 22nd, 2014 3:54 am
A Delightful T13, my dear…..Those Japanese Light Dancers are FANTASTIC! I’ve never seen anything like either of those Videos…..
May 22nd, 2014 6:02 am
Stellar submission, CR, right from your blistered fingers (I thought of The Beatles “Helter Skelter”!) through both of the freakishly amazing vids, all the way to your paused vocality. Salute!
May 22nd, 2014 6:19 am
you sound so busy…in a good way!
May 22nd, 2014 7:34 am
I’m sorry about your blisters, but I bet your garden will be awesome in time. I’ve got some planting I need to do today.
http://otherworlddiner.blogspot.com/2014/05/hallie-ephron-writing-life-are-we.html
May 22nd, 2014 8:23 am
3 do you have special pens you love like I love calligraphy pens and pens that write like pens gel pencils ??
May 22nd, 2014 8:47 am
#7 makes me dizzy.
May 22nd, 2014 9:26 am
#8 – I love that word!
May 22nd, 2014 9:41 am
Yes, Ron. I was thinking of The Beatles shout out about blisters as well as Steve Millers ‘somebody hand me a cheese burger’ in #1.
I’m just not organized enough to have special pens. As long as they work I like them and like them to have black ink rather than blue. .
May 22nd, 2014 4:35 pm
I have always thought I was probably a handmaiden in a past life. Certainly no one worthy of historical mention. We can’t all be, now can we?
May 22nd, 2014 6:03 pm
I like 3 and 4, and number 12 reminded me of a vanity plate friends and I once saw: GENUIS (yes, intentionally misspelled). Thanks for visiting! ☺
May 22nd, 2014 7:27 pm
Your garden is much further along than mine. I just have a little container for it anyway.
I can’t remember the last time I went miniature golfing.
May 23rd, 2014 2:18 am
That’s a long list ! I try to keep myself updated on all these new action figures ! My little grandson 3 1/2 starts too !
May 23rd, 2014 11:18 pm
13 -I have never played a video game in my life. Wonder if I can make it to the end without. So is this good thing or am I a freak.
6 – cool 7- cooler but all time favourite is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBk3ynRbtsw call me old fashion but I still like the soft touch of the look of drawn
May 23rd, 2014 11:21 pm
just noticed I was the 13th comment on 13 Thursday -the planets must be in alignment
May 24th, 2014 9:54 am
Wow! That video gave me goose bumps! Thanks, Hudson.
I’ve never played a video game either, or the lottery!
May 24th, 2014 10:51 am
It sounded like you had an eclectic birthday filled with fun. A happy belated birthday to you. I love number 13 in your list. So sweet. Your whole list is fantastic.
May 25th, 2014 8:40 pm
Your welcome.
June 2nd, 2014 6:35 pm
I wanted to write this when I read it, but I was watching the grandbabies. Anyway, guess what GOLF stands for: Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden!!