Loose Leaf Notes

1. The brighter you shine your light (spirit) without acknowledging your dark (soul), the bigger your shadow can loom and have power over you.

2. When an idea becomes an ideal, it’s prone to ideology, which frequently manifests as a lack of new ideas.

3. I probably have written more than 100 poems about the moon, which caused me to once refer to myself as “a night shift stenographer hired by the muse to take down the moon’s business.” When it comes to my itty bitty moon ditties, they are short and almost interchangeable, kind of like building a wardrobe that can be mixed and matched for new looks.

4. Moon Psyche: The sun’s twin soul / casts no morning shadow / but hovers faintly over / an alter ego of cloud

5. You’ve heard the term “batshit?”  We literally have it on our porch.  We’ve been sleeping with the porch light on, but I don’t know if it will deter the bats that want to sleep between the logs of our home or, because bugs swarm to the light, just give them more bugs to eat and attract them more.

6. At one point during our recent apple picking at an abandoned apple orchard off the Blue Ridge Parkway, I put my bagful of apples on the ground, and they spilled out and rolled down a cow path like pin balls in an arcade game.  I couldn’t find the flipper! See HERE. 

7. Apple picking sacrament /is the irony of Eden / The body and blood / of holy communion / Fruit of her womb / round red blessings / I’m humbled in the presence / of Eve’s holy host.  – From a poem I wrote in 1999

8. “The terms “always, never, all and only,” should raise red flags for us to examine more closely. People use them thinking that they strengthen a statement when the opposite is often true, because making such an absolute claim invites the mind of the listener or reader to think of exceptions, and there often are exceptions.”  – My Dharmacratic Poet friend Will on Facebook

9. Will also said, “I know why raccoons wear masks.”

10. I’ll never be able to see a pink balloon again without thinking of THIS.

11. THIS bonobo ape can start his own fire and cook his own food.

12. Check out THIS graffiti at Hull’s Fort Revere in the Massachusetts beach town I grew up in.

13. “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”  -Voltaire

_______Thirteen Thursday