Loose Leaf Notes

1. On Sunday I had a Sundae at a Sundae Bar during a Celebration Ceremony for my friend Martha’s birthday.  It was Homestead Creamery vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce and fruit compote, topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with nuts and it was my first Sundae in about 40 years.

2. I tried to sing THIS Beatles song to Martha but I could only remember the Martha My Dear part.

3. I was in the audience when one of my blog titles was ripped from the Floyd headlines and used in a skit at the season opening of the Floyd Radio Show.

4. It was: I Hugged a Stranger at Yoga Jam. 

5. I know what clogging and flat footing is but I wasn’t familiar with buck dancing until I heard the term at the Floyd Radio Show featuring poet, storyteller and buck dancer Minton Sparks, and I have to admit I kept thinking she was saying “butt dancing,” which made me think of buck naked dancing.  Watch her dance HERE.

6. Martha, a former nun and retired human services nurse, grew up in a large Catholic family from Indiana. She remembers reading Shirley Maclaine’s 2000 travel memoir, The Camino: A Journey of Spirit, and saying to herself, ‘I’m going to do that.’  Her husband started reading blogs written by people who had life-changing experiences walking El Camino de Santiago, which translates in English to “The Way of St. James.”   – More from the story I wrote about Martha’s pilgrim walk on the Camino HERE.

7. I had a dream last week that I was getting married.  (To who, I don’t know but I think my husband was there).  The reception was starting and family members were arriving when we were told we had to move the reception to another room, downstairs.  I couldn’t understand why this would happen.  It wasn’t like we were outside and it started raining.  People were in transit and I was in a deficient, hungry and with low blood sugar, because the disruption was taking so long.  So I went downstairs to the room we were moving to and tried to get some cake.  No one else had made it down yet and I remember being disappointed that the room was not an improvement over the first room and kind of dingy.  A woman working the reception would only give me the slightest sliver of (carrot) cake, and then I dropped it and it got wet, so all I got was a few crumbled pieces.

8. Is slacker the mutant plural of lacker?

9. I just LOVE THIS artist’s work. More HERE.

10. Floyd Radio Show Ballad Singer Channels Bob Dylan HERE.

11. Getting tagged on Facebook for the challenge of listing the 10 most formative books that you’ve read in your lifetime is a lot easier than pouring ice water over your head:   1. Bones of the Master by George Crane 2. Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg 3. I Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 4. Clan of the Cave Bear 5.  Hans Christian Anderson collection 6. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn 7. Between Heaven and Earth by Robert Johnson 8. Grapefruit by Yoko Ono 9. Cat’s Cradle and other Vonnegut books 10. To Know Yourself by Swami Satchidananda.

12. I’m always amazed at how fast sunflowers go from being the cheeriest flowers on the block to the most depressed looking ones, hanging their big heavy heads down with what looks like the weight of the world.

13. THIS one’s for Naomi at Here in the Hills.  I call it Ladies Who Lunch.

________Thirteen Thursday