Loose Leaf Notes

1. My psychedelic days are over, but a camera and a pinwheel can still provide a cheap thrill.

2. See what I mean HERE.

3. I’m so sensitive that just putting on sunglasses can sometimes make me feel altered, like I’m stoned on a foreign substance.

4.  It’s a twirling whirl of flirts in petal skirts and bees busily buzzing. They jump from flower to flower, as if playing musical chairs, and if they land on a flower that’s already been taken, someone gets pushed off. See HERE.

5. Paint like a kid HERE

6. Meditating is a lot like how you look at magic computer generated art to see the hidden picture, only you do it with your eyes closed. To meditate you have to focus past the thoughts in the forefront of your mind. Once you do, your mind will drop down to a whole new place that you weren’t aware of before.

7. Getting married is like getting a tattoo. It’s a lot easier to do than it is to undo.

8. Didn’t I see THIS skit on Saturday Night Live without the Nerf guns?

9. I had one of THESE hanging on my bedroom was as a teenager.

10. I was raised on jump rope songs, nursery rhymes (which might explain my love of wordplay) and rock and roll rather than classic literature. I strongly identity with my Irish storytelling roots and the oral tradition of that heritage, which I think explains why I don’t punctuate my poetry, preferring to use spoken rhythm and the breath to determine line break pauses. A period feels confining to me, like the overuse (or over intellectualization) of language feels oppressive. It’s always been important to me that poetry is accessible, which is why I like Billy Collins. – More from Writer’s Talk, a question meme I participated in about writing and blogging HERE.

11. There was a variety of answers to someone new to Floyd who asked on Facebook ‘what does “Floyd Time” mean?’ My best answer: If I’m on time I think I’m early.

12. Watch Pharrell Williams’ Happy Dance Floyd style HERE.

13. “Seeing is believing but feeling’s the truth.” – Thomas Fuller

_______Thirteen Thursday