Loose Leaf Notes

1. Coming into town for the Annabelle’s Curse show at Dogtown Roadhouse Friday night, and after spending the day in the garden and tending to chickens, I felt like I had landed in a different country and had to deal with jet lag. It was the start of the Crooked Road’s weeklong Mountains of Music Homecoming events, the start of the 3-day Floyd Artisan Tour and the Friday Night Jamboree and town was busting out all over with people.

2. I wasn’t the only one who noticed that the TV lawyer from Roanoke was there and that a well-known Dogtown employee was pushing a wheelbarrow through the crowd, which seemed out of place until someone reminded me that he was hauling wood for the brick fired pizza oven.

3. According to wikipedia:  The origin of the red and white barber pole is associated with the service of bloodletting and was historically a representation of bloody bandages wrapped around a pole.  During medieval times, barbers performed surgery on customers, as well as tooth extractions. The original pole had a brass wash basin at the top (representing the vessel in which leeches were kept) and bottom (representing the basin that received the blood). The pole itself represents the staff that the patient gripped during the procedure to encourage blood flow.

4. THIS is What Happens When You Break a Guitar String.

5. I’m not an early riser, but Joe is. I woke up early the other day, came out to the kitchen, saw Joe and said, “What’s up? “You are,” he answered.

6. Paper Cut:  An unlikely weapon / Empty white paper / A blood sister’s razor / sharp complaint / Red vertical line / on horizontal blue / is a thin excuse / a slow to heal / stinging edit / a poet’s occupational / hazard.

7. Could shooting stars be Eros’ arrows and the curve of the new moon the bow they’re shot from? More HERE.

8. I went to my mother’s 90th birthday party in Massachusetts via Facetime. My sisters passed the phone around and took pictures of it with me on it, and I took pictures of them. See HERE.

9. Actually, there has been a lot of drama in the hen house lately, a black snake, a chicken that eats eggs before I can collect them and cliques between the old and new hens, which has caused me to spend a lot of time trying to keep the peace and to say, “I’m like a hen den mother.”

10. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas:  “An experiment by Australian scientists has proven that what happens to particles in the past is only decided when they are observed and measured in the future. Until such time, reality is just an abstraction.”  In other words, “reality does not exist if you are not looking at it.”  – More from Scientists Show Future Events Decide What Happens in the Past HERE.

11. Honestly, I love this stuff but can’t quite wrap my brain around it, that time can go backwards and the future can cause the past.  Einstein called it “spooky,” and Niels Bohr, a pioneer of quantum theory said: “if quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”

12. Seen on Facebook: A wise man once said nothing,” which reminds me of what my Dharmacratic friend Will has said, “Don’t just do something, sit there.”

13. Life couldn’t be better or wetter HERE.

______Thirteen Thursday