13: Hmmmmmm
1. When my Asheville Potter son Josh called on Christmas Eve day, I asked him when he’d arrive in Floyd to celebrate. “I’m leaving soon. I just have a few more things to wrap up,” he told me. “Oh, you mean like literally, as in wrapping presents?” I asked
2. Funny how the word mustache could be pronounced “must ache.”
3. Josh informed me that he didn’t wrap presents or make beds because he wasn’t good at folding corners. “Nowadays you can pull up a comforter and use a gift bag,” I answered.
4. Whether red or green our one county stoplight over the holidays seemed to say Merry Christmas. See HERE.
5. It felt like we fell into a Christmas wormhole, coming out of the theater after watching the nearly three-hour Science Fiction film, Interstellar, on Christmas evening. I stumbled out of the theater in a surreal haze and saw a crescent dish of a moon hanging low on the horizon, just over a Best buy sign. At the Hotel Roanoke we sipped Irish stout (Josh), Muscat wine (me) and amaretto (Joe) and talked about plot loop holes, black
holes, other dimensions and time travel. I’m as much a fan of Christmas lights as I am of Science Fiction, and so was happy to see the Hotel’s festival of trees on display. Photos HERE.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full? Is my son Josh leaving 2014 behind or walking into 2015?
7. Listening to my iphone playlist and hearing two songs that make me stop and feel the bittersweet depth of life, like I did when I first heard them, made me realize that I was just as drawn to sadness as a teenager as I am today and made me think of John Mellencamp’s song Hurt So Good, which isn’t on my playlist, but Your Life is Now is.
8. Somehow the words NATAL and FATAL seem like the rhyming bookends of life.
9. A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown
10. I’m working on a story on Floyd’s Woolly Jumpers Yarn Shop, which got me looking into the word woolly and how it can have one L or two, and made me think of THIS song.
11. Sometimes it feels like my energy hangs by a thread, and if it gets pulled too hard the whole thing can unravel.
12. And isn’t it funny that a yarn can be a story or strands for weaving but you spin both of them?
13. I drink coffee; my poet persona drinks tea. – Billy Collins
____________Thirteen Thursday
December 31st, 2014 2:53 pm
I have answers to your questions in #6.
“6. Is the glass half empty or half full? Is my son Josh leaving 2014 behind or walking into 2015?”
I say “yes” is the answer to each of these questions! So there! Happy New Year!
December 31st, 2014 3:45 pm
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS. DEAR DEAR COLLEEN!
I don’t know how you do it, my dear…..Another amazing T13, and the very last for 2014…..
Wonderful, as always…..!
December 31st, 2014 3:53 pm
You and your son do have a great time over the holidays!
December 31st, 2014 4:05 pm
Have a Good New Year! 2015 is coming for Josh whether he likes it or not… Is the glass half empty or half full? I think it is half empty (that way someone might feel inclined to fill it for me).
January 1st, 2015 1:14 am
In one year and out the other! Haha! Good one!
January 1st, 2015 7:14 am
2015 is going to be wooly for me. I’m making a huge hooked rug this year.
May yours be woolly too as you continue to weave your Loose Leaf word threads.
January 1st, 2015 9:02 am
I love your TTs, so creative and full of life and spirit. I think the word I would use to describe your T13s is ZESTY.
January 1st, 2015 10:36 am
“Zesty” indeed. One of my favorite reads, every week. Thanks, CR.
January 2nd, 2015 11:36 am
Happy New Year, Colleen!
(Love number 11 on the list.)
January 5th, 2015 3:52 pm
Number 9…so true!