Loose Leaf Notes

1. “He introduced a few new songs. Before playing “My Baby Loves Me,” telling us how the muse had woke him too early, and he didn’t want to get up. “If you don’t take it, I’ll give it to Arlo,” the muse said, and so he got up and wrote a new song.  – More from the Tom Rush concert we just went to at Harvester Performance Center  HERE. 

2. As we were leaving, Joe told me that he had just purchased a ticket for us to see Jesse Collin Young (of the Youngbloods), another one of my mainstay favorites back in the day, who I also saw perform in the late ‘70s.   “It’s like meeting up with old boyfriends!” I told him.

3. ! and xo are the only emojis I use!

4. What’s New Pussycat? What’s up Doc? What’s it All About, Alfie? and What’s Happenin’ were the pop culture greetings of my generation.

5. And when we were ready to leave, we literally said “gonna bolt” or “gonna split.”  But the most common catch-phrases we used were “Wow” and “mind blowing.”

6. “There are alternatives to oil and gas. This is no alternative for water.”  – Meme recently seen on Facebook

7. “Meals on Wheels will now be Deals on Wheels, offering senior citizens health care products at reduced rates in exchange for liens on their property in a literal pay as you go plan.” – My Dharmacratic poet friend Will

8. Will also said, “Forgiveness means letting go of all hope for a better past.”

9. Too Much Time at the Bar? HERE 

10. THIS video of a swan cleaning trash from a lake kind of breaks my heart.

11. The reverse psychology and projection going on in the Trump administration is astounding. They accuse others of what they are actually doing, bringing a new twist to twisting the truth.

12. Bullies feel small inside and are trying to feel bigger when they pick on others, and when people project blame and can’t be honest or take responsibility, the truth tries to reveal itself somehow and eventually. Often the offender makes Freudian slips or their body language gives them away. I think falsehoods are ultimately not sustainable in the long term. There’s a price to pay for deceit.

13. Candles were lit, and sage smoke wafted through the spacious spread of rooms.  The altars were decked with ceremonial objects. Drum beats rolled and voices rose in song. A black shawl draped. A gold fabric flowed… Read more about our recent Women’s Community Croning HERE.

________Thirteen Thursday