13: The High Notes
1. Some people do yoga and others meditate. My practice is composing weekly 13 Thursdays. Sometimes I feel like a minister who writes and delivers a sermon each week.
2. Write Up My Alley, Honk if you Play 13 Thursday, 13 Lines Not for Fishing, The 13 Score, 13 Degrees of Spring Fever, The 13 Thursday Drum Roll, 13’s a Charm, 13 Talking Points, Breaking the 13 Sound Barrier and 13 O’Thursday are just a handful of the past titles.
3. I used to say “That’s Greek to me,” when I couldn’t understand something. Now, in today’s high tech world, I say, “That’s Geek to me.”
4. Number 3 happens frequently because I have no tech-no-logic.
5. I call the above photo “That’s What Uncle’s Are For.” It makes even more sense when you look at the photo below of the boy’s dad napping nearby.
6. Bryce and Liam are “picking” up where their Uncle Josh left off with their love of blueberries. Josh loved blueberries so much that for his July 10th birthday I used to make him a blueberry pie instead of cake. I even wrote a poem about him and 
blueberries, so when I heard he’d be in town for a wedding this weekend (and just home from 3 months in Australia) I texted him to say, “The blueberries are ripe!”
7. “I can see blueberry heaven,” Bryce kept saying about the blueberries he couldn’t reach. “It’s not easy getting into heaven. It’s so high up,” I answered.
8. What’s the difference between a podium and pulpit?
9. I think it’s fitting that the word UP is in JUMP.
10. I’ve always believed that I manifested my husband Joe with Steve Winwood’s song Higher Love, which I listened to, sang like a prayer and danced to a year before we met. More about my kind of worship HERE.
11. When I recently heard Aretha’s Franklin’s RESPECT while shopping at the thrift shop, I felt duty bound to dance in the aisles between the racks of clothes, since I have said many times that I will get up and dance wherever and whenever I hear that song. In 2008 I was undecided about going to my 30th class reunion when I 
got a call from a friend encouraging me to go. I asked if the DJ would be playing RESPECT and was told ‘we’ll see to it.’ I went and they did play the song and we all lived happily ever after. HERE’S the proof.
12. Note and tone are the same word like eros and rose. Good has god in it and earth has heart.
13. This is my 451st Thirteen Thursday entry. My very first one was in 2005 and is HERE.
Tada! _____________Thirteen Thursday
July 2nd, 2014 10:33 pm
Great TT!
My last name has God in it and Pig!!??
July 3rd, 2014 1:16 am
What a nice lawn chair. Yeah, all right, the kids are cute too.
July 3rd, 2014 4:18 am
delightful pictures of these boys so love this
July 3rd, 2014 4:31 am
GREAT T13! You are right—-this is your weeklu sermon and you cover so many wonderful subjects—Touchstones Of Life
July 3rd, 2014 4:35 am
Well….I wasn’t finished but somehow it got posted anyway…..I was going to say that I love seeing the boys hidden in the Blueberries…..And I ALWAYS love when you see ‘words’ in other words…..Really wonderful! You are the most faithful Thursday 13-er around, I think…..I hope you never stop writing them, Colleen…..like I said—-This was a GREAT One!
Now, I’m done……lol!
July 3rd, 2014 4:44 am
One of your best, CR. Especially enjoyed the worship poem (I like to sit near a river; would not only be worshipping but would be in heaven if I sat there with blueberries).
July 3rd, 2014 4:49 am
You are amazing. And my goodness those two have grown!
July 3rd, 2014 4:56 am
I have a “13” on my computer, put there to remind me to tell you that I always think of you when I see the number 13. This particular one was stuck on a new tee-shirt I bought recently, maybe the inspector’s number? Anyway, for me, 13 is you!
July 3rd, 2014 7:31 am
Your boys are beautiful and with such happy blueberry faces.
My mother loves blueberry picking. She tried to get me to love it, too. Unfortunately for her, I would cry and whine while swatting at bugs in the bushes.
July 3rd, 2014 8:31 am
Oh, what fun you guys have. I love your pictures and how happy you all look in them.
http://otherworlddiner.blogspot.com/2014/07/fireworks-thirteen-facts-i-bet-you.html
July 3rd, 2014 9:38 am
Great pictures!
#1. Ahhh, yes, it is like a meditation. All things that keep us focused onto something that takes us away from our everyday.
#2. How about Lucky 13? Have you used that one?
#3. Drum roll please … I hear ya.
#4. We’re in the same non-geek boat.
#5. I can see Josh peeking through.
#5. You’ve got two 5’s. If it’s intentional, I do see Josh more clearly.
#6. He’ll get there someday in the way far away.
#7. Not the “p”
#8. Neat.
#9. I think that was at my house on one of our Labor Day cookouts. Or maybe that memory was just a reenactment.
#10. Same thing as #1.
#11. Reunions are fun.
#12. This one might just be my favorite of your 13.
#13. Then I bet you have used Lucky 13 somewhere along the line of 451 post on Thursday 13.
July 3rd, 2014 9:46 am
Wondering if you heard Respect at the Roanoke Goodwill..
They always have the best music on – I always dance while I’m shopping there!
July 3rd, 2014 10:31 am
The thrift shops do play the best music and I shop regularly at the Roanoke Goodwill ( I babysit in Roanoke once a week), but this happened at the Christiansburg Goodwill and I was caught dancing by Floyd Countian Alta Pickford who was also shopping!
Two fives! Ha ha! Not intentional more like numbers are geek to me! I fixed it.
Kath, we did dance to Higher Love at your house when we were trying to conjure it for Nancy K.
Nice to hear from you, Bonnie!
July 3rd, 2014 4:26 pm
451 TTs! Congratulations. No one will ever catch you. And yours are always very interesting and thought-provoking.
July 6th, 2014 9:07 pm
8. What’s the difference between a podium and pulpit?
Ambo, dais, stage, lectern, rostrom, podium, soapbox, stump
-to read
Pulpit- to proclaim the Word of God
July 10th, 2014 12:44 pm
Congrats on more than 450 of these!