Loose Leaf Notes

1. Poetic Feet?  It’s a real term that refers to the basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables, such as iambic, anapestic, trochaic and dadtylic.

2. I don’t know the academic language of poetry, like I don’t know how to maneuver manual settings on a camera, but that doesn’t stop me from taking pictures and writing the poems.

3. I call the photo-journal shot below: The Scrabble box was dusty.  My playing was rusty.  But it was a good game.

4. It’s too late for going to Woodstock / but not for wearing that leopard-skin pillbox-hat / the one Bob Dylan made fun of / and Jackie O passed over for pink – See what else it’s not too late for HERE. 

5. Seen on Facebook: I use a men’s room even though I’m a woman because I identify with waiting on a shorter line.

6. Another one said: I don’t care what bathroom you use, I just want you to wash your hands.

7. Colleen to Joe: I just want to fall off the face of the earth.  Joe: Me too.   Colleen:  Ok! That’s my new idea for a great date.

8. THIS really puts it all in perspective: For 70 Years, A Mug in Auschwitz Held a Secret Treasure.

9. I once referred to the book I wrote about losing two brothers a month apart “field notes from grief’s front line” and described it on my webpage as “part memoir, part grief therapy, part amazing story of my brother’s last weeks, which lined up as though a plan were unfolding.”  The book also weaves in current events, a physic reading, an old diary, and online dialogue with my siblings. The dreams and coincidences that occurred after Jim and Dan died kept us connected to them and revealed that the plan was still unfolding …  More HERE.

10. You’d probably never guess that many years ago, I studied iridology, did runway modeling on a couple of occasions and was once asked to read erotic poetry at a sex toy party.

11. Just found on a scrap of paper in my handwriting:  Bucolic is not a pretty word but misery is.

12. It’s too late for dessert once you’ve bit off more than you can chew.

13. Sometimes I think that if climate change doesn’t get us, the ticks and mosquitoes will.

____________Thirteen Thursday