Loose Leaf Notes

1. What a world. My first boyfriend just talked to my former brother-in-law on my Facebook timeline.

2. Trump is the Spinal Tap Rockumentary of the American Presidency.

3. I wrote #2 after hearing Trump say this about the coronavirus at the CDC: “I like this stuff. I really get it… every one of these doctors said, ‘how do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. “All these doctors say, ‘how do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability, maybe I should have done this instead of running for president.”

4. “The fit has hit the sham,” says my Dharmacratic poet friend Will.

5. What happened to the e in wherever?

6. The Weekend helped give the Weekend Update on SNL and Elizabeth Warner made a surprise appearance. See HERE. 

7. The Weekend performed with a nose bandage and what looked like blood on his face. I was hoping it wasn’t a knew style trend, and then I saw this online: “For everyone who’s wondering, The Weeknd’s face looks bloody and messed up on SNL because he’s promoting his new short film After Hours, which precedes his new album of the same name. He wears the same bloody makeup & bandage in the After Hours clip.”

8.  Scarehead actually means a big, sensational, or alarming newspaper headline.

9. Hop on Pop is the new Dick and Jane.  – from the first “Read All About It” HERE.

10. Then came the golden finch / to cinch the coming of Spring / to turn on the bulbs and ring in the bells / that wake the dormant daffodils

11. “Why are you still so sad?  Can’t you just get over it?” are questions (whether verbalized or not) which usually come from a place of concern that those who are grieving have heard.  Death and grief can’t be fixed (aren’t broken) and can’t be avoided or scheduled. I’m not bad because something bad has happened.  My sadness is not contagious and it isn’t how I’ll always feel.  I’m not looking for sympathy, special treatment, or to be rescued, but grief does need acknowledgment and those who are grieving do too. – More from The Jim and Dan  Stories Revisited: Chapter 15 HERE.

12. THIS is a fantastic education/review on how the Democrat’s nomination process of primaries, caucuses, delegates and superdelegates came about. Democratic presidential candidates used to be chosen by party leaders, behind closed doors until that exploded in 1968 when Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the nomination without winning any primaries as a solo act… More HERE.

13. “Springtime came and rose flowers burst out — it is a transformation. The thorns are still there — there are more thorns than flowers — but we do not call it a thorn plant. We call it a rose plant because of that single rose.”  -Sadhguru

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