13: Now You See It
1. THIS is the music we played for our carnival.
2. THIS is the Youtube video my grandson Bryce showed me on Friday that made me roar with laughter.
3. There were magic tricks, games, an apple shack and lime shots. Someone won me a stuffed animal and I wore a basketball hoop on my head.
4. The Older Poet: I can’t drink tea / on an empty stomach / Can’t bring lilacs in the house / because the fragrance is too strong / When my husband gets bored and restless / he thinks about changing jobs / I just change the color of my nightgown / But is has to be silk
6. Older Poet 1 is HERE.
7. “The white nationalists who stormed the Capitol are fighting for the rights of the fearful to avenge themselves on society — if you suffer from violent hallucinations and carrying an AR-15 in the Piggly Wiggly gives you comfort, go right ahead — and we the quiet majority are drawing comfort from movies and books and cooking and Googling the OED. I could Google Little Richard and there he’d be, on YouTube, standing at the piano, banging out “Tutti Frutti.” I enjoy a little tutti-fruttism now and then but I abstain now because my wife is working the crossword. She reads a clue to me: “the —– is wider than the sky: Emily Dickinson” and I say “Brain” and this impresses her. I also spell Samuel Pepys’s last name for her. It is a small transaction. I majored in English in college and here I’ve put my education to some use. But in the pandemic lockdown, it feels important. It makes me happy…” Garrison Keillor
7. I think Scrabble boards are very photogenic. See HERE.
8. Is THIS for real?
9. Proof of Winter HERE. Ice See You HERE.
10. I know someone who had Covid but tested negative, someone elderly who tested positive but didn’t have any symptoms and someone who died of it.
11. When Mud is the Canvas and Ice is the Paint HERE. When I Mistake My Computer Cursor for a Bird HERE.
12. WOW. Floyd’s own Morgan Wade has a write-up in Rolling Stone and a video clip from her upcoming album HERE. You can read an interview I did with Morgan for a story in our local paper HERE.
13. The lines from Seamus Haney’s poem that Biden quoted in his DNC speech: History says, Don’t hope / On this side of the grave, / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed-for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.
__________Thirteen Thursday
January 28th, 2021 9:51 am
Biden had a good speech. Poetry still has a place in the world, and that makes me happy. All is not lost if we can still be poetic.
January 28th, 2021 11:54 am
#2 That cracked me up! It reminded me of the time I bit into a rock because I thought it was a piece of chocolate. hahahaha
#13 Without hope, where are we?
January 30th, 2021 11:17 am
Thank you for the Garrison Keillor . I miss him (and that scene is right out of our life these days). Bill won’t play Scrabble even now during social isolation but he helps me with my NYT x- word….. The Older Poet (I and II ) just great … I’m impressed with your you tube video … with your skill and the number of lovely birds at your feeder!