Loose Leaf Notes

1. What a life I lead. One day I played Scrabble with a friend, the next I swam at the pool, and the next I got an acupuncture treatment.  Even when I go to work, it’s to cover a concert. See HERE.

2. If we can be discombobulated, can we be combobulated?

3. Bob or Pete Seeger?

4. Daytime readings were accompanied by birdsong, while night time readings were punctuated with the sound of crickets. More from Everybody’s in Love with Words at the Little River Poetry Festival HERE. 

5. My poet friend in India / heard the wind confessing / but here in America / I heard it complain / It stirred like a conscience / warning of consequences / when winners against losers / are the rule of law … More from my newest poem The Last Word HERE.

6. I feel like I just saw THE WHO smash their guitars HERE.

7. I’m really serious about my Dogtown pizza HERE.

8. Funny how I have the best nails of all my sisters but also the dirtiest because I’m the only one that gardens (in my bare hands) to the degree that I do.

9. “Private VS Secret – Privacy is the state of being unobserved; changing clothes for example — that which I keep private, I am merely withholding from public view. Private matters are those traits, truths, beliefs, and ideas about ourselves that we keep to ourselves. They might include our fantasies and daydreams, feelings about the way the world works, and spiritual beliefs. Private matters, when revealed either accidentally or purposefully, give another person some insight into the revealer.”

10. “Secrecy is the act of keeping things hidden — that which is secret goes beyond merely private into hidden. While secrecy spills into privacy, not all privacy is secrecy. Secrecy stems from deliberately keeping something from others out of a fear. Secrets consist of information that has potentially negative impact on someone else-emotionally, physically, or financially. The keeper of secrets believes that if they are revealed either accidentally or purposefully, the revelation may cause harm to the secret-keeper and those around him or her.” – From Jung at Heart -More HERE. 

11. “There is no evidence of the soul except in its sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking the place of where something was before. A night without stars falls and for a moment covers everything.”  – Bruce Springsteen on Clarence Clemons death

12. The older Bruce gets the more he looks like Robert De Niro.

13. “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” – Carl Jung

_________Thirteen Thursday