Loose Leaf Notes

1. I made up a new word after a friend suggested that serious people were probably trying to be sincere: sinserious.

2. Combining a photo and poetry in a post: Phoetry

3. Meditating is a lot like how you view computer generated magic art, except you do it with your eyes closed. Not unlike how to see the hidden picture in magic art, to meditate you have to focus past the thoughts in the forefront of your mind. Once you do, your mind will drop down to a whole new place that you weren’t aware of before.

4. My photos sometimes show up in places I have no idea that they will, like HERE. 

5. I’ve was always jealous of Dr. Spock’s Vulcan ability to mind meld. I always wanted to read books that way.

6. Right now I’m reading Tom Robbins memoir Tibetan Peach Pie. Here’s an excerpt: “I’m always astonished when readers suggest that I must write my novels while high on pot or (God forbid!) LSD. Apparently, there are people who confuse the powers of imagination with the effects of intoxication. Not one word of my oeuvre, not one, has been written while in an artificially altered state. Unlike many authors, I don’t even drink coffee when I write. No coffee, no cola, no cigarettes. There was a time when I smoked big Havana cigars while writing, not for the nicotine (I didn’t inhale) but as an anchor, something to hold on to, I told myself, to keep from falling over the edge of the earth. Eventually, I began to wonder what it would be like to take that fall. So one day I threw out the cigars and just let go. Falling, I must say, has been exhilarating — though I may change my mind when I hit bottom.”

7. I call my 6 year old grandson Bryce a “gene yes” because of THIS imaginative work of art, titled “It’s A Good Thing I’m Wearing Earmuffs, Said the Sun.”

8. A tidbit of wisdom mined from a recent dialogue group: Accepting yourself is one thing but facing yourself might be the real work.

9. And sometimes our work is play.

10. Wow. Burlington, VT., recently announced that it now produces or gets more power than its citizens use. And it’s all coming from renewable sources of energy like wind and solar and hydroelectric. Read about it HERE. 

11. Hydraulic Fracking for natural gas extraction uses huge amounts of water and chemicals, can contaminate ground water, contribute to global warming and is linked with earthquakes, which is why I was happy to see this new site on Facebook: Frack-tose intolerant. Fracking has been banned in many countries and states, including New York. See a list HERE.

12. When my Asheville Potter Son came how from a trip to England in 2005, he was wearing a T-shirt that said, Mind the Gap, a common phrase heard in the British subway, which translates into American English as “Watch Your Step.”

13. My mind just went blank and then I imagined a T shirt that said “Mind the Lapse.”

_______Thirteen Thursday