Loose Leaf Notes

1. “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi

2. “Scientists have recently determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain—unless it is done with play, in which case, it takes between 10 and 20 repetitions!”— The late Dr. Karyn Purvis, Director of Texas Christian University’s Child Development Center

3. The word swims reads the same when it’s upside down.

4. So now you don’t have to drive home in the dark, but you have to get up in the dark?

5. Moon Solo: A silver horn / plays a top note / A pied piper’s call / for the stars to come out

6. The Beat Goes On: Floyd Mardi Gras Turns Ten HERE.

7. The highlight of the weekend was dancing to Mustang Sally at Dogtown with my friend Sally Johnson and others.

8. Singers doing Joni Mitchell are like actors doing Shakespeare.  – Colleen to Joe while watching the PBS special tribute for Joni Mitchell’s 75th birthday

9. During the Joni Mitchell special Brandi Carlile sang Case of You with Kris Kristofferson, which made us think we’ll shout out “Case of You” when she’s playing at Floydfest this summer and maybe she’ll sing it.

10. Sign seen on Facebook: The best thing to give up this Lent is plastic, not chocolate.

11. Psychologists at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver studied the schedules of 70 six-year olds, and they found that the kids who spent more time in less-structured activities had more highly-developed self-directed executive function.

12. I think the above is true for adults too.

13. “It’s like America is Las Vegas now.” – Joni Mitchell, Rolling Stone 1991

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