13: We’re All in This Together
1. A shadow stretches the truth.
2. I think it’s very cool that the word actual is within the word factual.
3. Alexa Meade is an American installation artist who paints directly onto live models and incorporates them seamlessly into painted canvases so they look like part of the painting. Check out her fantastic work HERE.
4. My 8-year-old grandson Bryce has been interested in special effects gore make-up lately. I call the photo of him to the right “Pass the Ketchup.”
5. “Bees aren’t menacing. If you don’t hurt them, they won’t hurt you. They’re just like brothers. If you don’t hurt your brother, he won’t hurt you.” –Bryce
6. THIS Scottish street performer wears a Donald Trump “haystack” on his head and sings his own comedic version of The Boxer with a line that goes: I flip and flop, and when my lips move it means I’m lying, and I just can’t seem to stop, lie lie lie, lie lie lie lie lie lie lie.
7. News Headline: Women sees Donald Trump’s face in her tub of butter. Really. HERE.
8. S’mores are so indulgent that the word has a pluralized S at the beginning and end of the word MORE.
9. No one knows for sure who invented the s’more. However, the first published recipe for “some mores” was in a 1927 publication called Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts. Loretta Scott Crew, who made them for Girl Scouts by the campfire, is given credit for the recipe. – Wikipedia
10. The Power of Negative Thinking: Ancient philosophers and spiritual teachers understood the need to balance the positive with the negative, optimism with pessimism, a striving for success and security with an openness to failure and uncertainty. The Stoics recommended “the premeditation of evils,” or deliberately visualizing the worst-case scenario. This tends to reduce anxiety about the future: when you soberly picture how badly things could go in reality, you usually conclude that you could cope … The relentless cheer of positive thinking seems less like an expression of joy and more like a stressful effort to stamp out any trace of negativity. – More HERE.
11. My poem “The Collector” has been included in an Artemis collection to be used for Poems in the Waiting Room, an Arts in Health charity, registered in the U.K. that supplies short collections of poems as cards for patients to read while waiting to see their doctor and to take away with them. – Read it HERE.
12. I think of consciousness like water poured into a cup that we’re shaped by and identify with. At death, the water pours out of the cup. I don’t know where it goes, but I imagine it can travel, seep, join a larger body of water, collect or evaporate.
13. So much of life is about finding the balance between “whatever floats your boat” and “we’re all in the same boat.”
______Thirteen Thursday
August 11th, 2016 1:05 am
Such nice brothers. Seems like my kids didn’t hold to that philosophy. More liked “Do whatever you can get away with.”
August 11th, 2016 7:35 am
Meade’s work is PHENOMINAL! Thanks for sharing. Your 13 is, as always, my first (& favorite) stop. salute.
August 11th, 2016 10:05 am
2 it surely is !! Today’s teacher s have a challenge with online factuality etc
August 11th, 2016 10:31 am
you picked winner in your group neither an impressionist be..not famous until after his death , many many friends.they lumped him there in impressionism but he was all his own and very sought after today – no one else had what he had
August 11th, 2016 1:43 pm
The Gaugin Will you marry #3 is worth over 300 million because he was more than an impressionist with his own style
August 11th, 2016 1:48 pm
Congrats on the poem, that is terrific. I can’t believe Bryce is 8 years old. I remember when he was born and you were writing about it. Seems like last year.
August 11th, 2016 2:24 pm
I like seeing you and your grandsons enjoying life, but my favorite thing in your post today is #13. I think it’s so true. Thanks.
August 11th, 2016 4:40 pm
I absolutely love #5 & #13! Miss you xo
August 11th, 2016 5:02 pm
Thanks for the chuckle with number 6! My T13
August 11th, 2016 10:58 pm
One/ Hmmm, then why do my shadows look younger than I.
Two/ Your right it is cool. And your once sentence saying so is a very cool once sentence if you think about it.
Three/ What would be your choice in a painting to be painted into?
Four/ It took me second. Aha now it get it.
Five/ As long as you know the difference between bee or wasp. Oh and the trump card, Africanized bee.
Six/ I skipped six, because I just came back from holidays and am trying to maintain my good mood by avoiding all things ‘TRUMP’ (trump card is allowed).
Seven/ See #six.
Eight/ So that’s a big butt S not a capital, huh.
Nine/ Tramping and Trailing, you don’t say.
Ten/ Psychotherapy kinda sorta.
Eleven/ Wow. Wow. And wow. Good shtufffs. I’ve never been published but if I ever were to be mine am sure would end up in a proctologist office.
‘Give me time to write the lyrics
to the melody of morning
to pray on a rosary of silence’, amen!
Twelve/ ‘Grunt’.
August 13th, 2016 1:54 am
Three may be the charm! I cannot make a comment stick here! Keeping it short this time: thank you I loved your meme.
In her butter tub? No kidding. Hahaha
August 15th, 2016 12:15 am
The water analogy is perfect (#12) … I am even less articulate this evening than usual, but thank you.
congratulations on being included in the collection (I’m off to that link as soon as I post this … also the Scottish street performer because I need a laugh.
August 16th, 2016 2:48 pm
#10. I’m an optimist, but it’s nice to expect for the worst and hoping for the best. It helps to keep me on my toes 🙂