13: Best to Sip Slowly
1. The addition of the letter S to the word Lyme in Amy Tan’s article, SLyme Disease: How a Speck Changed My Life Forever, is not only like a mutant plural, but it also has a double meaning. Her story is worth the read and could easily be one about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. See HERE.
2. I can never integrate the beauty of May Day with the fact that it’s also a call for distress.
3. The merry month of May is above the fray and my favorite photo of the week. Look HERE. You can also see how Hans and Franz pumped me up in the same blog post.
4. Favorite poem of the week that I wished I wrote is HERE.
5. Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? My friend Margie, who heads up a Lyme Support group here in Floyd, recently did the Take a Bite out of Lyme challenge by eating a lime. She’s also organizing Tick Talk Symposium about the illness at the Floyd EcoVillage on Saturday May 16 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Check out the webpage HERE and a video interview HERE.
6. Studies have shown that people who suffer from social anxiety have an increased ability to feel and interpret the emotions and mental states of people around them. They also test higher on IQ tests. Read more HERE.
7. This week one of my hens laid an egg without a shell. At least she didn’t lay OMG THIS!!
8. Spreading the gold of farm fresh eggs on a bagel is like spreading wealth on the new day’s wheel of fortune.
9. Haiku with high tea / Best to sip slowly / Don’t brew the oolong / too long. – More Pot of Gold Teapoet Poems HERE.
10. I feel a big sense of accomplishment when I have a day where I remember to stop and listen to the birds sing. Yesterday I hear my first wood thrush of the season.
11. Tangled up in Bluegrass is the name of one of the latest featured stories on Floyd, which (last time I checked) is 4th of 20 Best Small Southern Towns in a USA Today reader’s poll.
12. Best blog title of the week was from Fred First at Fragments from Floyd. Man: Hi. On grass. The post ends with the line: Rumor is he didn’t inhale.
13. In dog years I’m really old, but in blog years I’m only ten.
______Thirteen Thursday
May 6th, 2015 5:12 pm
My recent post talks about personalities and how we relate or don’t! Now going to all of your links! There is a new tick disease out that is deadly…several have already died. No hope for those of us who love the out doors.
May 6th, 2015 5:48 pm
Always best to sip slowly, CR. I usually use Thursday to get caught up on your life in Floyd (& N’Orleans travel) and always savor your T13 weekly. Today’s no exception.
I’m amazed at the giant egg, very curious about the shell-less one (pics?), and especially honored by your pingback to my own work (#4). Thanks!
Now that April’s over, I’ve found time for a T13 of my own this week. It’ll be up tomorrow. Cheers!
May 6th, 2015 6:22 pm
It was the first time I saw a shell-less egg so I threw it to see what was inside. Just a regular egg. It had a kind of light vernix covering. We have 4 new young hens and I read that shell-less can happen when they first start to lay.
Oh no. If I ever get a Lyme tick I’ll likely be dead or close to it. Don’t think I could handle anymore mysterious chronic illness. It presents a lot like CFS.
May 6th, 2015 9:18 pm
One through twelve I went where you sent me.
On thirteen, I applaud ten.
May 7th, 2015 6:11 am
I have slow internet now, can’t click the link.
I am curious to see the egg without a shell.
May 7th, 2015 7:17 am
I’m a fan of Amy Tan. I’ll check out her article. Thanks. And kudos on your blog years–I appreciate your posts.
http://otherworlddiner.blogspot.com/2015/05/thirteen-snapshots-of-wisconsin-romance.html
May 7th, 2015 7:38 am
Congratulations on the blog anniversary. It’s an accomplishment!
The first thing my new acupuncturist asked me yesterday was if I had been tested for Lyme as I presented with many of the symptoms. I don’t think I have but perhaps should be.
May 7th, 2015 8:50 am
Good Morning, so nice to find you at Thursday Thirteen. I always enjoy finding new friends and I loved your 13 random thoughts today. See you again soon.
May 7th, 2015 10:11 am
Does the social anxiety make them smarter or does the higher IQ result in the anxiety?
May 7th, 2015 10:52 am
After reading the article, I think they are saying more of the second, that people with higher IQs are more empathetic and more likely to be aware of the things that are wrong with society.
Also this in interesting to ponder: “In nature, animals that are able to detect and respond to threats the quickest are more likely to survive. In fact, some species of the animal kingdom rely on having an individual in their herd that is anxiety prone and can detect threats before the others can. Is it possible that anxiety is actually an evolutionary advantage? Could anxiety act as a biological superpower that helps us solve problems, avoid threats, and detect danger?”
May 7th, 2015 11:09 am
Always best to slip slowly and enjoy — perhaps while listening to birdsong at day’s end. My T13
May 7th, 2015 3:49 pm
This Lyme Disease thing is really Horrific……I know of someone else who is suffering Horribly, and it seems as if they cannot find an answer for her—on the other hand, I know someone who had it and was treated with Antibiotics and it cured him very quickly…..
I real Nightmare to be bitten by a tick……!
Always love your T13’s Colleen……You amaze me that you have never stopped doing these in all the ten years of Blogging……And Congrats on 10 years, my dear blog friend……!