Loose Leaf Notes

1. When we do what we were made to and follow it to a completion, when we offer our work as a way to touch others, it opens the way for more.

2. “Sometimes the line will agree with the sentence and sometimes the sentence will argue with the line.” Claudia Emerson

3. The Pope gives a Ted Talk.

4. Blog comment I posted last week:  I grew up next to a penny candy store AND the beach, but I still need that bubble machine to make life complete.

5. “Interestingly, both (J.R.R.)Tolkien and (C. S.) Lewis seems to have found Disney “vulgar.” Tolkien says he “infantilised” fairy tales. . . . One serious objection of both these authors to Disney seems to be in the depiction of dwarves as cute and comical figures. In the original Snow White, these are dark figures from the region of id inhabiting the dark forest of her unconscious, who help her overcome her evil mother archetype and find independence. Dwarves have always inhabited the twilight zone between good and evil in fairy tale and fantasy; Disney made them cute – an unpardonable crime!” –From the Joseph Campbell Facebook Group Read The Movie Date That Solidified J.R.R. Tolkien’s Dislike of Walt Disney.  –Blue Country Magic

6. My introduction into the world of archetypes came when I was a girl by way of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. To this day Rumplestilskin and the Snow Queen repeatedly show up in my poetry. When I first saw the kiln at the university where my potter son was a student, memories were stirred of Hansel and Gretel pushing the witch that had imprisoned them into the oven. When I’m in the garden, I watch rabbits and wonder which one is Peter. Because of the story of Cinderella, a pumpkin will always be magical to me.  – More from Once Upon a Time HERE.

7. Does THIS choke you up?

8. What do you see HERE?  “Everything you see is your brain’s best guess. Once you have made sense of this image it is impossible not to see it again.”

9. Strangest Headline this week:  He did Nazi that coming: Sebastian Gorka loses job in Donald Trump’s White House

10. “Patriarchy plays the Trump card. Reality calls its bluff.” – My Dharmacratic friend Will

11. For at least 100 days / I’ve been drowning in a swamp / a snake oil con of billionaires / burning bridges and rattling sabers / while trying to convince me / the world is flat / I’ve mourned the disregard of facts / of common sense and science / I’ve felt threatened, held hostage and robbed / watching corporate give-aways / and environmental protections signed away / like broken treaties / like blankets spreading small pox … Read The First 100 Days in its entirety HERE.

12. There would be no other reason for me to get on four-wheeler at this stage of life other than that my nearly 9-year old grandson Bryce invited me to HERE. 

13. I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.  Anonymous

_____________Thirteen Thursday