Loose Leaf Notes

1. I keep wanting to say “my sunshine” when I look at the above picture.

2. I made the sign for a family birthday montage for my brother-in-law Ozzie who turned 77. I kept wanting to say ‘sunset strip” after the sign that someone else held that said 77.

3. The only thing on my May calendar was my and Bryce’s birthday. Everything else was cancelled!

4. It only took Bryce 12 years to get taller than me. See HERE.

5. “A piece of cake! I said to Joe when I blew out the candles and they all went out at once.

6. I finally got to see Tom Petty in concert. It was a couch tour or, in our case, a bedroom concert. It was also my birthday. Not seeing Petty in concert before he died in 2017 was a bucket-list-missed, and having this remote concert experience was a completed gestalt. I had just gotten finished saying that I was more of a boomer than a zoomer and here I was zooming in for Live Stream Fundraiser of Petty and the Heartbreakers playing a set at LOCKN’ in 2014. We even got zoomed in to the concert screen, kind of like being on the kiss cam at a baseball game … More from The Next Best Thing HERE. 

7. Sadly, Floydfest 2020 “Vision Quest” has been cancelled due to this se”quest”ered time of COVID19, which has made me think about the alignment of the festival theme and the actual meaning of Vision Quest: “The term “vision quest” was first coined by 19th-century anthropologists to describe the rite-of-passage ceremonies of certain Native American cultures. Traditionally, these rituals have been performed to mark significant life transitions or changes. Generally speaking, they are seen as both personal and collective events that are guided and witnessed within the community, and often involve the “quester,” spending time alone in nature in search of a personal vision that becomes a vision to support the entire community.” – Maddisen K. Krown, School of Lost Borders

8. Being on Zoom is like being on Hollywood Squares.

9. If I can’t get a heated pool for my next birthday, I at least want a sandbox.

10. You struggle to stitch / what a bookmark keeps separate / You wait for the poems that fit like skin / dream them from a distance / then write them close in / You wear your beret / whether you’re asleep or awake / hopeful that the muse / will recognize you – Read The Art of Sleep Writing aka What to Wear to a Dream in its entirety HERE. 

11. “I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.” – Stan Laurel

12. That’s using your head! German cafe makes customers wear swimming noodle hats to enforce social distancing. See and laugh HERE.

13. Question seen on Facebook: “If a tree falls in the forest and everyone saw Donald Trump cut it down, is it still Obama’s fault?”

_______Thirteen Thursday