13: Spin for the Record
1. Last night Joe called me Frank Sinatra. When I asked what he meant by that he said, “You like to do things your way.”
2. I call taking a bath “a dunk,” the way he calls playing golf “taking a walk,” which I guess in both cases translates to, “This won’t take long. You won’t even notice I was gone.”
3. Sometimes I write because on a good day my pen is like a dousing stick that finds a well of meaning I can drink from. Other times I write because it’s something I can do lying down.
4. Restaurants, hotels and movies are rated with stars. My days are rated by how many eggs the hens lay. Yesterday was a 3 egg day.
5. Artists never cease to amaze me. HERE is a honey.
6. Best quote of the week was by Tom Robbins on Timothy Leary: “There are those who have condemned Leary as a liar, a sellout, an opportunist, and most of all, a raging egomaniac; but the truth is, he was simply Irish.”
7. The Irish legacy is one of paradox. The luck of the Irish is super-imposed over Murphy’s Law (if something can go wrong it will), just as my passion to write and share my writing is super-imposed over my self-conscious public shyness. – Read more about why when I went to Ireland in 1997 to visit my grandmother’s hometown, I learned more about myself there than I could have in 10 years of psycho-therapy HERE.
8. Buy Your Own Pizza and Be Yourself: It sounds like a life philosophy but it was also part of a Dogtown birthday invite that my friend Triona sent out to friends. Watch a video clip of Triona and some young friends dancing to Happy on the Dogtown stage during her birthday party HERE.
9. I can swing a little poetry but I can’t wing it. – Comment I recently made on a thread about public performing.
10. Writing Roulette: I spin the alphabet wheel / hoping to land the right letters / the ones I can add to the others I have / for a winning combination / If I’m lucky I’ll score a whole verse / in an unbeatable streak of right words / for the pay-off prize preferred by poets / the rave reviews of critics
11. Best news picture of the week HERE.
12. Telling time after losing an hour to daylight savings time is like being time bilingual. In our bedroom the clock reads the new time and in the kitchen it’s old, and no matter where I am when I look at the clock, I have to translate one time to the other.
13. Best psychedelic spin HERE.
_________Thirteen Thursday
March 11th, 2015 6:47 pm
Those honey dipped folks will never let me see honey the same way again. You know how I fell in love with Ireland and the Irish (Course I am married to one)so now I will go to the link of your visit.
March 12th, 2015 12:50 am
Am feeling a little bi-chronos myself, but am learning to except it quickly, convinced that one hour of advancement feels like two hours of extra daylight.
I should get chickens, but on the zero egg days, I’d feel depressed thinking I was a big fat nothing. Then again, I like homemade chicken noodle soup.
March 12th, 2015 1:14 am
Don’t we all want to do it our way
March 12th, 2015 7:05 am
5 and 7 so loved those . I bet !!
March 12th, 2015 7:06 am
6 too!!
March 12th, 2015 10:08 am
#1. Being Irish is why you like to do things your way. I do think we prefer to improvise.
#5. Such tasty and sensuous honey pictures.
#11. A thank you to all, past and present, who struggle to change racial inequities.
March 12th, 2015 3:29 pm
Laughing at number one.. ☺ My T13
March 12th, 2015 3:39 pm
I am Irish, too, on my father’s side, and Scottish on my mother’s. I think it is why the mountains call to me.
March 12th, 2015 6:05 pm
Wow. All good, as always, CR. Especially appreciated the honeyfolks, and the pinwheel flashback was a rush. Very cool.
March 12th, 2015 7:57 pm
Fun TT! I love Daylight Savings Time! 🙂
*hugs*
Paige
My TT is at http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/2015/03/thursday-thirteen-tinkerbell.htm
March 13th, 2015 2:42 pm
You’re right: that’s news photo and the accompanying story made my week, too.
March 16th, 2015 6:21 pm
#4 is so you!! And that “honey” art is something else……..I wonder if their skin became smooth afterwards. The guy with the beard/hair looked all matted.
How much honey do you think they wasted? Or was this photo shopped?
WOW to all the rest, because I can’t remember the numbers?