Loose Leaf Notes

1. “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty” is today’s “Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life” and was coined in 1982 by the writer Anne Herbet when she wrote it on a placemat at a restaurant.

2. If you love it set it free HERE.

3. Me (responding to my grandson Liam who used the number a “zillion”):  Is a zillion a real number?  Grandson Bryce:  Yes, but we don’t know what the last number is. Only God knows the last number.

4. Liam’s and my favorite new library book is called Pete’s a Pizza.  Pete is sad because it’s raining and he can’t go out to play, so his father plays that Pete is a pizza. He puts checkers on Pete for tomatoes and paper for cheese. He puts Pete in the oven (the couch) to cook and when Pete is done, he starts to pretend to cut him up, but Pete runs away. “Just like the Gingerbread Boy,” Liam says.

5. My 10-year-old home-schooled niece may be able to speak German and Latin, write her name in Korean, win contests for Irish step dancing and solve math equations that I can’t, but I can still beat her at hula-hooping. See HERE.

7. Sometimes I imagine that I’ll see poetry the way I see hidden pictures in 3D art when I take my gaze off the obvious, when I trust that a poem already exists just below the surface, and I let myself fall into it. – More on Poemwork HERE.

8. The Eiffel Tower: “It was over my head.” That was the way I explained seeing the Eiffel Tower when I was too young to appreciate it to my blogger friend Tabor who is posting about her trip to France.

9. Sometime at the end of the day I have a glass of wine to “wine down.”

10. I’ve never liked sunscreen but I don’t like sunburns either. I’d rather use a hat, keep a lightweight shirt nearby and limit my sunbathing exposure than slather on sunscreen that has been shown to contain carcinogenic and endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are polluting our water sources and are now found in 97% of American’s blood.  Along with that, studies also show that sunscreen and lack of exposure to the sun is causing a massive epidemic of deficiencies in Vitamin D, a vitamin that protects against sunburn and skin cancer.  Consider that sunscreen could be the next health care recommendation reversal and read more about it HERE.

11. The longest verified record for hula hooping was made in Ohio by Aaron Hibbs who kept a hoop spinning for 74 hours and 54 minutes, from October 22, 2009 to October 25.

12. “My Kind of Summer Sports” can be seen HERE and HERE. 

13. Even the smallest thing, which we consider unimportant, can make a huge difference in the world HERE.

___________Thirteen Thursday