13: Outpouring
1. Rush or gush?
2. “Wear a mask; not a tin foil hat. Also, science is real.” – my friend Kanta
3. “Bat shit crazy” has taken on a whole new meaning in this pandemic world.
4. THIS Inflatable Hunk Pool Float Wants to Be Your Summer Boyfriend
5. I’m more of a boomer than I am a zoomer.
6. I get by with a little help from my friends, the birds.
7. Listen, the cat’s not got the catbird’s tongue.
8. When plain birds have the prettiest songs: Gray catbirds are close relatives of mockingbirds and thrashers, and they share that group’s vocal abilities, copying the sounds of other species and stringing them together to make their own song.
9. My potter son Josh Copus gives a virtual tour of his clay studio and inspired property in Marshall County NC, complete with a firing. See HERE.
10. A friend lent me the book “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” for pandemic reading, and recently, I dreamt that I got it all dirty and now I’m afraid to pick it up and read again.
11. When you can’t get a haircut or get to an art gallery – an alien sighting while wildflower hiking… More HERE.
12. “When things fall apart, we can only be as we are. Pretense and striving fall away, and life becomes starkly simple. The value of such moments is this: we are shown that the game can be given up and that when it is, the emptiness that we feared, emptiness of the void, is not what is there. What is there is the bare fact of being. Simple presence remains—breathing in and out, waking up and going to sleep. The inevitability of the circumstances at hand is compelling enough that for the moment, our complexity ceases. Our compulsive manufacturing of contrived existence stops… The contrived self has been emptied out along with contrived existence and the tiring treadmill of image maintenance that goes along with it. What remains is a new moment spontaneously meeting us again and again…” More from Breaking Open in the Bardo HERE.
13. “You have two ways to live your life, from memory or from inspiration.” -Joe Vitale
_________Thirteen Thursday
May 14th, 2020 3:22 am
i commune with birds every single day-missing wildflowers where you live sigh
May 14th, 2020 11:55 am
I wonder how you like Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I did an Independent Study on that book and other works by Annie Dillard, a very long time ago. I liked her poems better, I think.
May 14th, 2020 11:55 am
Hi,
Great list…loved the bird song and the pottery video was great. Have a great day!
May 14th, 2020 1:41 pm
Country Dew, I find if poetic and exhilarating but not sure how long I can last purely in nature without dialogue or story plot. I loved her Art of Writing and her memoir, will have to check out her poetry.
May 15th, 2020 12:30 am
I went through a period of turning down books and magazines from friends because I was afraid of smudging them. I confessed that to a friend once and she pretty much thumped me on the head.
May 15th, 2020 1:13 pm
A Celtic cross. I love the sound of the birds; makes me wish I were in the country.