Loose Leaf Notes

1. My grandsons and Joe formed an improv rap band that we named “Hopa Joe and the Whaddaya Know.”

2. But then we discovered that 9-year-old Liam was a natural front man, so we changed the name to “Little Lee and the Family Three.”

3. Bryce’s band name is “Bryce the Silent Type.”

4. Speaking of the silent “type,” Joe got me a new old school keyboard for Christmas.

5. 2020 Vision: A hopeful crescent / blooms luminescent / with destined presence / a New Year shines

6. I celebrated New Year’s Eve by wearing gold and dancing with Joe and friends to THIS band at Dogtown Roadhouse.

7. When Window is a Canvas and Cold is the Paint HERE. 

8. My grandson Bryce made an orchestra band out of Legos!

9. He also made a chessboard with Lego pieces!

10. I found my way in to the kitchen to put on the kettle for tea.  I threw the pen into the trash and got a new one to write down my dream of Dan:  He was in a bed.  He hadn’t died.  We didn’t pull the life support systems.  But he was like an infant and was unable to talk or do anything for himself.  He wasn’t in pain, though.  I could go lay next to him, touch him, and tell him I loved him whenever I wanted to.  At one point, he got up, out of the bed.  I tried to help him, but he wouldn’t let me.  He walked to a body of water, maybe a lake, where my mother and a friend were sitting in lounge chairs at the water’s edge.  Dan walked by them, straight into the water.  And then he went under.  The dream ended there.  It seemed that, even in my dream, Dan wanted to go.  He didn’t want to live as an invalid, held like a prisoner to a bed…” From  The Pen  and the Poplar Tree. More from The Jim  and Dan Stories Revisited Chapter 8 HERE.

11. I came THIS close to making a New Year’s Resolution in 2009.

12. “Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.” – Ram Dass (1931-2019)

13. Your move.

_________Thirteen Thursday