13: Just Around the Corner
1. The Way I See It HERE.
2. Listless: without a list of things to do and without the energy to make one.
3. It’s come to this: Saturday I went to town on a scouting expedition to look for snowman. I found four.
4. Then I made one myself and crowned her Snow Queen.
5. The Way I See It #2 is HERE.
6. 2020 word of the year: Tantrump It is defined as ‘outburst of anger, characterised by an inflated sense of entitlement, denial, narcissism, paranoia, victimhood, and debilitating tribalism’.
7. There a certain poetry to the first black and Jewish Americans being elected to seats in Georgia on the same day as the riot on the Capitol that was incited by Trump and perpetrated by insurrectionists parading Trump and Confederate flags and Nazi symbols.
8. Is it consistent or constant?
9. “Republicans who say we can’t impeach a president 10 days before an inauguration had no trouble confirming a Supreme Court justice 8 days before an election.”- Robert Reich
10. It takes time in the dark room to develop the finished product that I’ve made of my life. It’s a poem.
11. Until the sky lets out/ its hemmed in brim / and lifts the shroud / of dark confinement / Cuts a remnant / from the longest night / for a red-carpet spread / that warms as it mends / that unfolds the hold / of times outgrown / with room to move / and new patterns to choose – Read The Tight Fit in its entirety HERE.
12. Barbara Kingsolver has poetry and I’m reading it… “Do not believe as I did. When / the world breaks open, fall apart / with her entrails, fall with the stones or fly. / Let the crush of it make you into some / new thing not yourself. See how these trees / take the teat of the world and suckle it, / drinking time, knowing it is perfect / with or without them. Lack their religion / you will have to make your own. / You are the world that stirs. This is the world that waits.” -From Forests of Antarctica
13. “It’s weird being the same age as old people.” – Meme seen on Facebook
_________________Thirteen Thursday
January 14th, 2021 2:45 am
I love the word “tantrump” and wrote about it on my blog. Thanks for posting that word, Colleen. Somehow, I had missed hearing it in 2020.
January 14th, 2021 10:28 am
It is weird being one of the old people. But I have reached a point where I am ready to simply fade away.
Nice Kingsolver poem. I didn’t know she wrote poetry.
January 14th, 2021 3:33 pm
Thank goodness for the new Georgia senators!
January 14th, 2021 7:58 pm
Love the Tantrump word–says it all. And your references to poetry are reminding me to go back to the days when they filled my brain. My brain needs new creative ways to feel and view the world.
January 14th, 2021 8:08 pm
This blog, my weekly 13 and poetry is a practice that is helping me see through an otherwise dark kind of isolating time.
January 15th, 2021 5:36 am
I have read the word “insurrectionist” for a long time. Lots of Barbara Kingsolver books in Kinokuniya in my corner of the world.
#13 – I’m getting there; I find it fun. Joined a group called Sassy Seniors. 😀
January 15th, 2021 5:37 am
Edit: “haven’t” (read the word….)
January 16th, 2021 12:46 pm
I like the tantrump describes him so well