Loose Leaf Notes

1. While on the beach in Delaware, I kept thinking I saw Joe Biden every time I saw an older man in a cap with his stature.

2. Special tea or specialty?

3. Working on a poem that Joe wants me to read to him, but I’m not ready: “I know what I’m doing but I don’t know if I can do it.”

4. Sun or shade / sandpiper ballet / sandbox spa / seagulls caw / happy clams / make tidal plans / dolphins cruise / the salty blue  – More from Wednesday’s Beach Report HERE. 

5. Old dog, new tricks? I dog-sat for the first time and made a new friend.

6. Cats are always cool. Dogs can be too, but only if you call them “dawg.”

7. Our grandsons brought their very active puppy “Fluffy” to our house for a ‘make a wish’ day. They didn’t know what a fluffernutter was. Do you?

8. “We’re ruthless. Act accordingly.” -Post on Facebook following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

9. …The ocean in a shell / listening to itself / A lonely heart’s rebound / that you hope will hold its own / in a second wave / of a daydreamer’s refrain / that doesn’t wash away … Read Second Fiddle Poem in its entirety HERE. 

10. Second wind or second wave?

11. THIS is my new anthem.

12. “Now, what would you give if you heard my opinion / Conjecturin’ on matters that I ain’t never dreamed / In all my born days as a white boy from Hickman / Based on the way that the world’s been to mе? / It’s called me belligеrent, it’s took me for ignorant / But it ain’t never once made me scared just to be / Could you imagine just constantly worryin’ / Kickin’ and fightin’, beggin’ to breathe?  – country music performer Tyler Childers, from A Long Violent History 

13. Don’t Believe Everything You Think – a Buddhist teaching

________Thirteen Thursday