The 13 Thursday Whirl
1. The part of last week’s Yoga Jam festival that’s not translatable by camera is me agreeing to be a target for 4-year-old Ryder while he practiced nerf “archery,” which he calls “orchardry.” He almost faked killed me.
2. Whenever I cover a long weekend festival, by Sunday I’ve usually lost my work ethic and do more dancing than photo taking.
3. The opening night of Yoga Jam reached a crescendo for me when Mighty Joshua and his Zion #5 family took to the stage in high reggae fashion. By the end of the show, and after raising everyone’s energy to a peak, Mighty Joshua told us we were all now married as a human family. The next day 
while walking around the festival grounds I saw him and stopped to give him a hug and say, “I heard we were married.” He was with his wife. – More HERE.
4. “Waste has a soul and a perilous beauty. It will survive when we fall,” so said artist Thierry Konarzewski, who photographs trash and makes it look good. On Facebook this week, we couldn’t decide if THIS old Clorox bottle was a mushroom or Picasso-style face.
5. Speaking of art, the opening ceremony at Yoga Jam was performance art that involved a large circle of people woven together with a rainbow of colored yarn. Created by local dancers and an artist, it was inspired by Sacred Geometry to create a visual metaphor of connection. “When I’m holding the yarn and tug on it, it tugs someone else,” the artist, Lore Deighan said. The weaving, which spread out from a “seed of life” sculpture, was set up at the festival’s Art Village as an interactive installation throughout the Labor Day festival weekend. Watch HERE.
6. I can’t use a computer touchpad, like I can’t use chopsticks, and I don’t have to as long as a mouse and a fork are around.
7. I like how whirl rhymes with twirl and swirl and that crude has the world rude right in it.
8. Has touch typing gone the way of cursive? I recently bought a new netbook size laptop, which I thought had everything I wanted until I went to type and discovered that the right shift key was in the wrong place, making it impossible to reach it without lifting my hands off the keyboard, a deal breaker for a touch typer like me.
9. I’m all thumbs but I can’t thumb type and I recently discovered that the 
traditional keyboard (QWERTY) that we all learned on has some competition in a new keyboard arrangement (KALQ) for thumb-typers. Is THIS the wave of the future?
10. So, this (to the right) recently happened. I saw it on Facebook and said, “OMG! My heart and stomach just went to school with Liam. I’m so happy he has a big brother to give him support.”
11. Last week I saw a bumper sticker that said, “Wag More, Bark Less.”
12. At this point in September summer has all blurred together, but I know it was mostly fun and full of color.
13. Oh, so THAT explains a lot.
__________Thirteen Thursday
September 7th, 2016 7:28 pm
A thumb type keyboard? Hmm. I’m going to look for one of those. Thanks for sharing.
September 7th, 2016 9:52 pm
No to KALQ!!!! No, no, no!!!! I gots me 10 digits & I’m using them, by golly.
September 7th, 2016 10:12 pm
Whiteout September on your calendar. Its freaking hot and humid here. Stink’n hot.
They grow up don’t they. It happens.
Clorox bottle -mask from primitive Plastic tribe.
That explains that and so does going to art school.
September 8th, 2016 1:01 am
Dancing is hard to resist.
September 8th, 2016 9:48 am
I loved the whirl and flow of this, Colleen. I heard good things about the yoga jam, even all the way over here.
I would be lost without the qwerty keyboard. Actually, I am lost without my desktop. Still not a fan of laptops and tablets. Too small and slow. I can type 80 wpm on my desktop. Not so on anything else.
September 8th, 2016 12:08 pm
7 sounds propel me on off day s in music and everywhere like crude and rude for sure
September 8th, 2016 3:25 pm
I can’t use the touchpad, either — definitely need the mouse! Mine
September 11th, 2016 7:23 am
No smartphone for me – I avoid them like the plague. I have been encouraged but never keep them and continue to look for old fashioned flip phones. One day I will have to make that plunge, kicking and screaming. The day is coming when flip phones will no longer be an option. A new laptop awaits my cooperation, but I have avoided it despite hubby’s gentle and sometimes more urgent prompting over the past year or more – a surprise gift from him which I’d hoped he would return. I am not one who must rush into new technology. No tablets for me – my fingers need a regular keyboard/mouse, and I am not fond of dragging apps all over a screen just because my fingers apparently have a different agenda than my brain.
September 11th, 2016 7:28 am
#10 oh, dear – where has the time gone? seems like he should still be a toddler.
September 13th, 2016 7:25 pm
Me too with regard to #6; and by the way fingers work beautifully at a Sushi Bar. I hope my old keyboard never breaks — I’m definitely a touch typist …. and while I’m not too old to learn a new Yoga pose, I’m definitely too old to learn a new keyboard.
Thanks for my weekly magazine here, even if I’m late reading it — it’s been on my bedside table (so to speak).