Loose Leaf Notes

1. What if every memory of the past was really a premonition of the future?  -After watching the movie Arrival

2. My Asheville Potter son calls the wild clay display pictured below “The Petting Zoo.”

3. Right now, he’s teaching student potters at Penland School of Crafts.  He’s got them digging wild clay and being part of a team with uniforms comprised of t-shirts that say “the dirt baggers” on them.

4. After I saw the uniforms, I asked him if they were playing sports on teams, he said, “I’ve always loved team sports. Working as a group to accomplish a common goal. The comradery. The feeling of being part of something bigger than yourself. Ceramics and specifically woodfiring is one of the most team oriented craft mediums. Dating back to the pottery village model and continuing into the contemporary studio movement.”

5. Best news headline last week:  Trump Slips on Ban Appeal

6. THIS picture of me is called “The Not Washing Your Hair After Swimming at the Pool Hair-do”

7. After having a Berry Good Time picking blueberries and wild raspberries with our grandsons last week, I was reminded of this poem:  Plum is yum / and cherry is cheery / But what part of berry is raspy? / Bananas can be split / or cause you to slip / Apples remind me of fall …

8. A lemon could be worthless / Prune could mean cut / A raisin is a grape / But a grapefruit is not / A peach has a pit / A pear has a core / A nectarine has no neck … Read the rest HERE.

9. The comments to THIS recently posted poem are worth the price of admission.  It starts: On the plane ride home from Boston to Roanoke / I ponder our brother’s dead body / flying as cargo from Houston to Logan in 2001 / Folding my magazine to a page on green burial / I read that death is a spiritual birth/ and that embalmment means draining the body of blood/ and filling it with formaldehyde preservatives/  Thinking about the fluid collecting in your body / I try to visualize its route and purpose / My tears pool together / There’s a lump in my throat / I worry I have cancer too …

10. “Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space that separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.” – John Berger

11. I’ve been researching museum collections of some of my favorite artists (Klimt, Chagall, Chihully and even Bansky) in NYC because we might be going there in October.

12. I think Marc Chagall is the ee cummings of art.  Pablo Picasso said this about him, “When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is.”

13. Spooky Action at a Distance:  “When two particles interact, they can no longer even be described by their own, independently evolving probabilities, called “pure states.” Instead, they become entangled components of a more complicated probability distribution that describes both particles together…The two could travel light-years apart, and the spin of each would remain correlated with that of the other, a feature Albert Einstein famously described as “spooky action at a distance.” – From New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time

____________Thirteen Thursday