The 13 Thursday Turn Over
1. I’ve crossed the bridge of song from the good old days to the older ones HERE.
2. As a day care teacher throughout the ‘70s, I used to help kids string macaroni into necklaces. Now they are using apps to do things like THIS.
3. We wore purple wrist bands at the Donna the Buffalo Show in honor of Prince. Now I have Blue Sky and Purple Rain playing in my head together. – More from “I Had Pants Just Like That in the ‘60s” HERE.
4. After dancing to Donna the Buffalo Saturday night, we came home to the last half of Saturday Night Live, which was a tribute to Prince with clips all his performances on the show. The next morning I woke with an unfinished gestalt because we turned on the show late and missed seeing his 1981 and 1989 performances. It took me two days to find and watch everything (and then some) online and, as a die hard SNL watcher since the start of the show, it turned out I had already seen every one of his SNL performances, but had forgotten them.
5. “God is Transgender.” – My Dharmacratic poet friend Will
6. I drag myself around / with a metaphoric 10 pound bag / of unplanted potatoes on my back / I sit every chance I get / hoping to catch the chickens in the act / It’s usually just one that escapes the coop / then acts amazed to find herself / on the other side / Soon she misses the flock / and nervously paces the fence / She floats like a ghost out of place / looking for a way back in – More from These are the Days HERE. 
7. HERE is a video clip of Joe in the garden in 2012 talking about Occupying the Wild Places during the Occupy Wall Street movement.
8. I like that the word “pen” is in the word “penetrate.”
9. I am from Hail Mary full of grapes / midnight mass and pennies in the poor box. – From Where I’m From, which I recently linked to a poetry blog where poets where sharing their Where I’m From poems and it gave my poem a new life of readers with comments. See HERE.
10. At Dogtown I saw a young friend with a red lipstick kiss on his cheek. At first I thought it might be a tattoo (it wasn’t) and then I thought of THIS old song.
11. So many emogis everywhere. I still just use this: xo.
12. Back in the day, I never said “far-out” but I did say “can you dig it?”
13. I’ve been turning out and turning over weekly Thirteen Thursdays since October 2005. HERE is the first one.
________Thirteen Thursday
April 28th, 2016 1:20 am
6- fun – oh how I love your gardens
April 28th, 2016 10:47 am
People are getting anxious to plant here, but still a bit early. I think you’ll like <a href="My T13 “>my T13 this week.
April 28th, 2016 12:27 pm
You are the winner of Thursday 13ers. 🙂 And the reason I started doing it, actually.
I think God is genderless.
April 28th, 2016 12:41 pm
Yes, maybe transcendgender!
April 29th, 2016 2:36 pm
I had fun reading all this earlier (including several links,) and because I enjoyed all the links, I forgot all about coming back to say thanks! I like the idea of occupying wild places … and your poetry … and your friend Will (I like his philosophy and I like the description. (Coming from Eugene Oregon, a Dharmacratic friendly place if there ever was one, I should have been familiar with the term — but I read it first here! I’ll use it often.)
April 29th, 2016 3:08 pm
Hi Sallie, I believe that Will coined that term “dharmacratic” for himself. He also calls a month a moonth and calls the alternative community here the alter-natives.
May 2nd, 2016 9:02 am
Wonderful post, Colleen! And I agree with you on the emogee… and a great many other things… “I can dig it all!”
cheers,