Loose Leaf Notes

1. Mystery solved. On the day the latest Rolling Stone magazine came out with a story on Jackson Browne shown on the front cover, I got a generous amount of hits on my blog via searches (mostly wanting to know if he’s had plastic surgery) that landed people on THIS post.

2. It was hard to refrain from singing the childhood version of happy birthday, ‘Happy birthday to you.  Happy birthday to you. You look like a monkey and you smell like one too’ to Liam when his birthday party was actually held at the zoo.

3. I actually did sing it once but changed the word “smell” to “sound,” then made monkey sounds, and he laughed.

4. My Boston Mass cousin Gerry and his wife Marie didn’t expect to meet so many fellow New Englanders in the Floyd during their visit. At Dogtown Roadhouse, they met our friend Chris, who grew up in Hingham, and a couple of friends from New Hampshire. Our friend Bob, a staunch Yankee fan who is originally from New York and who was collecting cover charge admittance, threatened not to let any Red Sox fans in to the show. – More HERE.

5. Each of us holds a piece of the whole story and when we are done, the circle is usually complete. It’s diverse, shines with a common thread and extends out onto something larger than ourselves. I think of a dialogue circle as a work of art, made with the honesty of words, personal reflection and listening. – Colleen on dialogue circle. More HERE.

6. I must have some pretty interesting friends. I recently came across an old notepad that I took to a dinner with friends and passed it around the table with the question, “What have you done that I probably haven’t?” The answers were: wrote 50 songs, went to a traditional peyote ceremony, ice skated naked, crawled through a 100 foot cave on my stomach, birthed five sons at home, and rode a pony at 11,000 feet in the Andes.

7. One of those answers was mine. Can you guess which one?

8. I’m not pointing fingers but I’m shaking my head. – Line written down in the same notepad

9. Low self-esteem and high self-esteem are identical ego problems, excessive focus on self. Bo Lozoff

10. Bolivia has become the first country in the world to give nature comprehensive legal rights in an effort to halt climate change and the exploitation of the natural world, and to improve quality of life for the Bolivian people. Developed by grassroots social groups and agreed by politicians, the Law of Mother Earth recognises the rights of all living things, giving the natural world equal status to human beings. See HERE.

11. I wish someone would invite me to a party like THIS.

12. Liam’s birthday story told via a Facebook album is HERE.

13. It’s been windy on the Blue Ridge Parkway, but not THIS windy.

________Thirteen Thursday