13: Swinging and Winging It
1. It’s fun to say “in my book” as a preface to explaining how I think when I don’t even have to have an actual book.
2. Think thank or think tank?
3. Last week I posted that Trump was a lame duck but has always been a quack. My Dharmacratic friend Will posted this: Lame duck in a chicken coup; a fowl situation.
4. Then I saw these two quotes of Twitter: “Trump is jealous of the turkey that’s about to get pardoned” and “A lame duck pardons a turkey.”
5. Winging It HERE.
6. My standard Thanksgiving moon poem: Cornucopia moon / Filling with light / Feast on the stars of November
7. Who’s a snowflake now? HERE.
8. Poetry is a reverse psychology / A Van Gogh gold mother lode / turned starry night / Read from a mirror / in a rear view / Tied together / with a strand of moon… Read Open Slowly in its entirety HERE.
9. Not only did Leonardo Da Vinci write with a special kind of shorthand that he invented himself, he also mirrored his writing, starting at the right side of the page and moving to the left. Only when he was writing something intended for other people did he write in the normal direction.
10. I’ve always loved secret codes and languages like “gibberish,” which my sister and I can still talk to each other fluently with. And then there was high school shorthand, which I regret every day not remembering, and they don’t teach it in school anymore.
11. I think dreams and poetry are shorthand languages of the soul/psyche.
12. Trump’s presidency has shown that he knows more about undoing than doing and about dividing Americans than uniting them. He verifiably lies on a regular basis and perceives the presidency as transactional, partisan and about his own petty grievances. He punishes “blue states” as if he isn’t the president of the United States. He’s made the U.S. a laughing stock on the world stage, been impeached for withholding foreign aid to get “a favor,” calls Democrats, our allies and the press “the enemy” but kisses up to dictators and allowed Putin to put bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan without any consequences. He has caged kids, abandoned Kurds to be killed and left taxpaid military bases in Syria for Russia to occupy… More from my commentary “These are the Real Reasons Trump Lost the Election” HERE.
13. “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” The Beatles
________Thirteen Thursday
November 26th, 2020 7:29 am
6 so lovely
November 26th, 2020 10:00 am
Love your Thanksgiving moon poem. cornucopia is my earliest memory of Thanksgiving.
November 26th, 2020 2:29 pm
The first item reminded me that someone told me once when I needed to say “no” or something, to say it was “my rule” not to take on more than I could handle at one time, or whatever the reason, because people respected the fact that it was a “rule” even if it was one you made up. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
November 27th, 2020 12:45 pm
Oh Colleen I love what you write!! Love the synopsis of the lame duck and the danger of his rhetoric. Interesting he only contested the results in four states, the ones he can’t admit turned from him so he must lie and say it’s not true.
Unfortunately his followers see him as a Jim Jones and still believe the crazy. No votes were from dead people mr prez, you know that, these are the same states you trusted last time when their votes went for you.