Loose Leaf Notes

1. I lied in my dream last night. I said to someone I was in conversation with, “I still go to church occasionally because I like the atmosphere of magic and mystery and it feels like being in a womb.” I should have said, “When I was a kid, the thing I liked about (Catholic) church was the atmosphere of magic and mystery and I still think about that.”

2. When I pull a remnant from a memory or dream, it resonates with an afterlife, as if it comes from the same place where my dead loved ones are. When I put it in poetry, it ups the potency.

3. “Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above the ground last only a single summer. Then it withers away — an ephemeral apparition… When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilization, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”  Carl Jung

4. I recently posted this on Facebook:  In navigating these urgent times, this tendency I see of pitting those (such as baby boomers vs millennials) who generally want the same things against each other is just another way to sow division. I have a valid point. You have a valid point. Why can’t they exist together? Holding two seemingly opposing thoughts is the antidote of polarization and power struggles that no one wins. I like to think we all hold pieces of a whole and that we can learn from each other. Experience and innovation are of equal value and together can get the best results for the higher good.

5. Don’t lose the chance / to turn language into verse / to pollinate the truth / into flower chain conversations / When whole colonies / are collapsing / we must risk being stung / We must put into words / what only we can say – Read As Good as Your Word in its entirety HERE.

6. I also dreamt that I was first in line at a book signing kind of event with Meagan Markle. She was stressed out and I asked her if I could get her anything, a cup of tea? She sent me back to the palace to get some English coffee cake. Even in my dreams Joe drives me around.

7. It’s too late for dessert once you’ve bit off more than you can chew.

8. I’ve been copying and saving my 13 Thursday, which I started doing weekly in 2005.  Some of my favorite titles are: 13: The Whole Ball of Wax and Wane, 13 Thurzzzzday, 13: I Can’t Believe I Wrote the Whole Thing, 13 Lines Not for Fishing, Hot Off the Thirteen Thursday Press,  Thirteen Thursday Was Here, iB13 Playlist, Thirteen Thursday Summer Ketchup and  13 O’Thursday (St. Patrick’s Day).

9. Maybe I went to see her because she was right here in my town or because I read this about her on Wikipedia: Baiman is the co-founder of Folk Fights Back, a musician-led national organization that puts together benefit concerts and awareness events in response to the Trump administration. But I really saw her because my friend Mark Hodges sent me a Facebook invite, and then my friend Melody sent me another one a couple of minutes later, so I googled some videos of Baiman and was SOLD! – Read more from Dude, Who’s Your Muse HERE.

10. THESE are my idea of fun.

11. Dogone Bygone Aka Three’s a Charm HERE.

12. If a dog is a man’s best friend, what about a woman’s? Diamonds?

13. “The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.” Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

_________________Thirteen Thursday