13: My Turn
1. We don’t just have family game day around here. We have “make your own game play day.”
2. The name of this game, made by our 8-year-old grandson Bryce, is Banker Tanker. Watch us play HERE.
3. This week I held my friend Amy’s 4 month-old-baby Pearl while Amy was checking out groceries at the Harvest Moon, and Pearl and I made a connection. Later, while driving home this song came to me and I started singing: Pretty girl / Precious Pearl / She wakes up early in the morning / Pretty girl / Precious Pearl / Her hair is curly in the morning.
4. The KIND was in top form for their 31st anniversary show at the Pine Saturday night. THIS is one of my favorite songs, so I had to cut it short to dance!
5. Last Thursday blogger Sandy posted THESE 13 fabulous water fountain sculptures.
6. And later I found THIS orchestra playing ice instruments in an ice cave concert hall. Unbelievable!
7. Red is the caffeine of colors.
8. My desk is a metaphor for my mind. It’s complicated.
9. My friend Chris just reported on Facebook that all his Amazon Echoes powered by Alexa went down on March 8, A Day Without a Woman, a general strike to bring awareness to women’s rights. So I looked it up and sure enough, I found this: “Alexa is participating in a Day Without A Woman. She will be down for all of 3/8/17. It’s not your device.”
10. “I used to respond with surprise / Upon hearing Trump’s venom-filled lies / But his yarns are so chronic / (A self prescribed tonic)/ That banking on fiction is wise.” – My Facebook friend/poet Greg Beale
11. Equating Trump’s travel ban to urgent protection for Americans is like calling Iraqi’s oil ‘weapons of mass destruction.’
12. “Just fearlessly try to find the actual, factual truth refreakinggardless,” says my Dharmacratic poet friend Will.
13. Your move.
___________Thirteen Thursday
March 9th, 2017 12:07 am
I tried to create a board game for a birthday party once. It was life size and the kids acted as their own markers. The lost interest and wandered off.
March 9th, 2017 2:55 am
Thanks for the fountain art n ice instrument links! How nifty! At the same time I don’t know what I’ d do if my guitar or violin melted!!!
March 9th, 2017 6:06 am
what a great way to self express make your own game !!
March 9th, 2017 1:41 pm
The list is great. The ice instruments, the new wee tot, and the game creation. Wow! My older girls made up a game called, Romans and Jews, and the whole neighborhood of kids played it. Thanks for the memories. Happy Thursday 13!
March 9th, 2017 2:50 pm
I did not realize Alexa was down yesterday, but I don’t like it so I don’t use it. But I think it is cool that Amazon participated like that.
I always thought I’d like to learn how to make video games. Or play Dungeon & Dragons. But then, I am a nerd.
March 9th, 2017 6:41 pm
Re your 13: My thumbs are up. My hat’s off. Bravo!
March 9th, 2017 8:13 pm
#13. I visited this post 13 times because every time I went to one of your great links I forgot what I was doing and went back to my typepad page.
#14. It was worth it. Thanks!
March 9th, 2017 11:17 pm
Nice list! I always enjoy your friends’ poetry. That’s hilarious about Alexa.
March 9th, 2017 11:42 pm
#15 You crack me up, Sallie!
March 10th, 2017 12:40 pm
7/8/10/11 – in no particular order.
I remember when the thought, “what is the president going to do today” did not cross my mind. I want some of those days back in my life!
March 13th, 2017 1:02 pm
I used to love making my own games. This was the days before pervasive internet. Theres something fun about making a game with ships, monsters, diamond mines, planets or similar. Oh and pretend banknotes. Or buttons.
March 13th, 2017 1:22 pm
Creative made-up play and stories has been shown to be the main ways to develop the brain in children.