13: Somewhere Over Rainbow
1. Last week I saw a rainbow and took it personal. In a good way.
2. Over the weekend, Joe and I took our grandsons, Bryce and Liam, to Marshall NC (outside Asheville) to visit The Brick Factory, a mobile public art project that was created by my potter son Josh and is currently taking place at the Old Marshall Jail in downtown Marshall. The idea is about building community. Visitors stamp their words and stories on a brick, created from clay dug from a farmer’s field and homemade on site. The bricks will be fired in Josh’s kilns and used as a community monument, a historic record, walls and walkways at the jail, which is being renovated by Josh and his partners. – More from Welcome to the Brick Factory HERE.
3. When Josh referred to his girlfriend as his “fiancé,” Liam thought he said Beyonce.” Later, he started calling her Josh’s “Fiesta.”
4. Is THIS for real?
5. Sometimes when I’m working at the computer, I open two of the same tabs and see which one downloads first.
6. I work on a poem / like it was a crossword puzzle / part hard struggle / part my kind of fun / erasing mistakes / crossing out false starts / thinking / outside the box – Read “Problem Solved” in its entirety HERE.
7. Whenever I don’t know exactly what it is I’m doing and it borders on wasting my time, I call it research.
8. I don’t like pumpkin spice, but everything is laced with it lately: latte, cheerios, Oreos, candles, donuts, butter and beer. I don’t even like pumpkin pie.
9. This is ridiculous: Fake muddy jeans from Nordstrom that sell for $425. You’ve got to see them to believe them HERE.
10. Ridiculous and ludicrous are the same words with the letters moved around.
11. Why can’t I say “Me too?” It’s not that I don’t have reason to. I think it’s because I’m rebellious in an anti-bandwagon sort of way.
12. The door to summer is closing and soon winter will be closing in.
13. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids HERE.
__________Thirteen Thursday
October 19th, 2017 1:44 am
your posts always inspire me.. and when i click on the links to your other posts, double-inspiration!!
October 19th, 2017 6:39 am
Wish the hurricane damage were over , so much I try not to be depressed.looking for that rainbow of which you speak .patience ,when looking at so much damage gets to me
October 19th, 2017 8:26 am
Fiesta, eh?
Love the crossword poem (don’t know why I didn’t comment there; Sorry)
Happy days!
October 19th, 2017 11:15 am
Rainbow sky and rainbow river – amazing creations. Research. I’d really rather just proofread abstracts.
October 19th, 2017 11:57 am
Tell me about that door! It’s hitting me in the face with pretty leaves.
Yep, the river is real. I’ve heard of it before.
I often take rainbows personally.
October 19th, 2017 12:56 pm
The rainbow river is real and very beautiful. I hope it gets protection. Cattle ranching is taking over a lot of the upper amazon, and other river basins.
the brick factory really looks like fun!
October 25th, 2017 5:40 pm
Here in our part of Oregon, we are trying to keep that door open or at least ajar until we leave for Florida where winter (as we used to know it) never closes in (but where, of course, the whole thing will probably fall into the ocean before too long…but we don’t talk about that). I appreciated the poem– your thoughts, and especially the crossword analogy, gave me, as a mere mortal — a totally non-creative admirer — a way to understand a little bit about how your wonders actually happen!