13: Inquire Within
1. I’ve been wanting to work ‘you need more cowbell’ into a sentence.
2. Believe it or not, the day after I wrote that, MC Yogi said that exact thing in his Saturday night show at YogaJam! Listen HERE.
3. In this case the word “wrote” really means “type,” like record album really means CD.
4. Labor Day Weekend status update by a Facebook friend: You know it’s a big holiday weekend in the south when the local grocery store sells out of Duke’s Mayonnaise.
5. Famous last words at Yoga Jam: It’s hard to dance and hold the camera still at the same time HERE.
6. I recently posted a blog entry with the words “perfect stranger” in it and have been thinking how weird that sounds ever since.
7. Is the term “perfect stranger” kind of like “awful good?’
8. I think new age theories, such as ‘everything happens for a reason’ and ‘we create our own reality,’ are as much ‘the stories we tell ourselves’ as the stories we tell ourselves, those that end up shaping our identities, defining roles or getting told and retold by rote. Both have some truth but are only stories, ones that may keep us from changing and acting in the moment, ones that are not always real in present time.
9. I was meeting Joe at Yoga Jam on Saturday and I arrived later than I told him I would. After walking around and talking with friends for about 45 minutes, I spotted him across an open field and it was obvious that he was looking around in every direction for me. It felt nice to be looked for.
10. Joe often says that he fell in love with me because I had a pot of lentil stew on the stove the first time he came to my house. Other times he says it happened when I sang THIS Clannad song to him while he was falling asleep.
11. I’m always amazed at where art can take us. In THIS case it’s to a real neighborhood corner shop where shelves are stocked with everything from baked beans to tampons, to produce and beer, but the difference is that everything is hand stitched from felt and the whole shop is an art installation.
12. And HERE is another artist’s shop statement: a bike shop where the outside building is covered with real bikes!
13. More famous last words at Yoga Jam: Thanks for the dance blisters, guys. HERE.
_______Thirteen Thursday
September 4th, 2014 12:29 am
Wow, guess there’s no missing THAT bike shop. My T13
September 4th, 2014 12:47 am
I stopped worrying about “wrote” vs “type” when I quit trying to write books longhand. That was before computers.
September 4th, 2014 4:36 am
# 7 good comparison
#4 never tasted but a staple for many I see
love to you and yours as we begin my month !!**
September 4th, 2014 8:50 am
1. That guy has more cowbell than anyone I’ve ever seen.
2. A growing phenomena that I’ve never heard of until today.
3. Same as when relate something you’ve read and you say … “It said ” rather than “it read.”
4. Haha.
5. Great light show.
6. Perfect stranger is something like, wicked awesome.
7. That too.
8. The psyche likes stories.
9. Cell phones help.
10. Wicked awesome.
11. There is nothing that can’t be made with felt.
12. Wicked awesome.
13. This made me think of the wicked awesome book I’m reading, “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” by Rachel Joyce.
September 4th, 2014 9:18 am
#8 I’m more talking about the narratives and tapes we believe that start to define us and keep us from changing because we are in a certain role or have a certain script set down. I was thinking how new age beliefs (and religious beliefs), such as ‘everything happens for a reason’ or ‘we create our own reality’ are stories we tell ourselves too. They have some truth but may not always be true in the moment and believing them could keep us from actually acting appropriately or authentically in the present.
I changed the wording some to hopefully make it more clear but it’s a hard comment to condense into a few sentences.
September 4th, 2014 9:32 am
Hi Coll,
It’s all “mind” no matter how it is written. Or at least that’s what I think today.
September 4th, 2014 11:19 am
You did it again…can it be Thursday already? I keep planning a Thursday 13 but it whips around before I can even get 5 thoughts together. I NEED to carry a notebook…or hang out with you and see things through your eyes.
September 4th, 2014 11:59 am
It’s become a practice. The more you do it the more you can, and it wouldn’t be any fun without readers like you, Tabor.
September 4th, 2014 1:46 pm
It is always nice to wanted and loved. I’m so glad you have your Joe.
September 5th, 2014 6:57 am
That Corner Store Installation is FANTASTIC! How do you find all these amazing things, my dear…..?
Another wonderful T13, dear Colleen, as always!