13 Thursday Snapshots
1. My four-year-old grandson Liam, coming home from a walk with me: “Can I take off my shoes cause I’m having a dream.” Me: “A daydream?” Liam: “No, a Mine Craft dream.”
2. I’m still shocked that savvy has two v’s in it and that rendezvous has a z.
3. “Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” – MLK
4. I just finished writing a story on the art of happy living for an upcoming Floyd 
anthology in which I said to the author/editor, “Funny how Floyd’s earliest newcomers are old timers now.”
5. Now I’m working on a story for Randall Wells’s online book (Floydiana) about coming to Floyd, which I think will be called “Hippies are for California.” It starts with a comment on a photo portrait taken of me for Portrait of Floyd that “came out looking more like the no-nonsense librarian that my high school aptitude test suggested I would become than the back-to-the-land flower-child country transplant that I am.”
6. According to Urban Dictionary, a Floydian Slip is when you accidentally say something that turns out to be a lyric from a Pink Floyd song. But I know it was a publication put out by a couple of Floyd friends of mine in the early ‘90s.
7. I bought my first camera in Jackson Square, Weymouth, Massachusetts, when I was 18 years old. Before that it was Polaroids and those black and white strips from the photo booth at Paragon, our town’s amusement park. I don’t remember the camera brand or how much it cost. It wasn’t very good, but I loved it from the moment I started snapping and was only sorry that I hadn’t gotten one sooner instead of spending all my babysitting money on clothes. – More from a 2010 post titled “Who is A Photographer?” HERE.
8. Status update from a friend seen on Facebook: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody posts pics on Facebook, did it really happen?
9.Picture THIS.
10. In my world, the only thing better than going out dancing for a case of the winter doldrums is to do it with a light show. Throw in a hula hoop and a really good on tap beer and you have a full scale therapy. – More on my latest dance marathon at Dogtown HERE.
11. You can tell my grandsons have been around. Last night the sound of wind was so loud that it woke me up. I reached for my earplugs and ended up trying to put whatever that is in the picture above into my ear.
12. Crapitalism sees the world as a commodity, a word that is closely related to “commode,” so says my dharmacratic poet friend Will.
13. “Activism is my rent for living on the planet.” – Alice Walker
________Thirteen Thursday
January 29th, 2015 1:12 am
I do love the way 4-year-olds think! Cute! Looks like Liam has been helping you decorate too. 🙂
I was much older than 18 when I discovered the magic of photography!
January 29th, 2015 1:25 am
A Minecraft dream? Now I really will have to go check it out. My son was all over it a few years ago.
January 29th, 2015 2:12 am
Another GREAT T13 Colleen…..! I don’t know how you do it, my dear……BRAVA to you!!!!!
January 29th, 2015 3:06 am
That’s such a charming reminiscence about your camera, and I love “Floydian slip.”
January 29th, 2015 4:46 am
LOL – the world is truly ruled by social media. If it doesn’t happen there nobody notices.
January 29th, 2015 6:36 am
Nicely done once again. There are so many spin-offs on many of these. Your photo above is just a little stressing for someone who likes things more neat and tidy.
January 29th, 2015 7:46 am
Oh I love #12. That is my new word, crapitalism. Thank you!
January 29th, 2015 8:11 am
The longer I’m retired the worse my spelling @2
January 29th, 2015 10:25 am
That mess entirely mine! In that case I was putting together a photo album of 2014 for the grandboys. I still get many of my photos printed out.
January 29th, 2015 10:36 am
#3, this made me think of this from the holy vedas:
Ahimsa ~ Not harming others by thought, word, or deed.
#9, Great pictures – as always. BTW, thank you for the pictures you sent with my birthday card.
#11, It’s a wee bit cuter than my hearing aids.
January 29th, 2015 11:29 am
#3 – yesssss.
#11 – a hoot! 😀
January 29th, 2015 12:36 pm
I love hearing the tales of what little guys say. Their view on things is so fresh and surprising. I love the notion of a Mindcraft dream. Thanks.
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January 29th, 2015 1:45 pm
I like that Alice Walker quote. My mother believed the same thing. My favorite quote of hers was made when she was asked if she was prejudiced. She nodded her head yes, touched the skin on her arm, and said, “But not here.”
She then pointed to her head, “Here. I hate ignorant people.”
January 29th, 2015 3:41 pm
Had to laugh at number 8. Being a French student, I’ve never had difficulty remembering how to spell “rendez-vous”. It drives me crazy, though, that English speakers have removed the hyphen, as it’s not actually one word but two.
January 29th, 2015 6:05 pm
that´s how my floor looked when the grandchildren was small. 🙂
January 29th, 2015 7:13 pm
I used that MLK quote myself last week. Beautiful.