Loose Leaf Notes

1. Where are your old blue jeans? HERE.

2. Slapstick moon: I slipped on the moon’s crescent peel and dreamt of whipped moon pie revenge.

3. Joe got me an ancestry kit for my birthday. When I opened it, I said, “Let’s find out if we’re Irish cousins.”

4. When Loose Leaf Notes doesn’t have a lot to say HERE. 

5. “A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. An author is a man who, in the absence of toilet tissue, is forced to use his own manuscript and regrets that he wrote on such stiff paper.” H.L. Mencken and Garrison Keillor

6. “Twitter is a bathroom wall.” – Dave Chappelle

7. I’d rather smell a dead poisoned mouse in my house than see a live one in my kitchen.

8. Why procrastination can help fuel creativity-  “Agatha Christie reported that ideas for her crime stories often came while washing up or having a bath. “I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention,” she wrote in her autobiography. “Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness.” Psychologists would seem to agree, with strong evidence that creative insights are much more likely to occur after a period of “incubation” – in which you focus on something entirely different from the job at hand, while your brain works away behind the scenes. This could include taking a walk, doing household chores or having a shower. Even our procrastination at work – such as watching funny YouTube videos – may be helpful for our problem solving, provided it is done in moderation. According to one of the leading theories: when we leave our task, the brain continues to look for solutions below awareness, until a solution pops out.” More HERE.

9. I was lucky enough to hear Ray Wyley Hubbard perform (for the first time) at Epperly Mill, and he really hit the mark. I think of him as the Richard Brautigan of rock, the Arlo Guthrie meets Willie Nelson with some John Prine thrown in.

10. “I just follow the inspiration wherever it is. Sometimes you have to direct it a little bit. But it’s that old Flannery O’Connor thing: Never second-guess inspiration. Write down the great aha, and then it’s OK to rewrite it.” Ray Wyley Hubbard

11. I hum like my mother and sneeze loud like my father. I’ve only recently noticed how much I hum as I go about the day, but my mother hummed more like she was keeping time; my humming is more of a melody.

12. “The planet is spinning on time: not a small event. All the galaxies are managing fine; the whole cosmos is doing great. But you have one nasty little thought crawling through your head, and it is a bad day! The problem is you are living in a psychological space that bears no connection with reality. And you are insecure, because it can collapse at any moment.” ― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy

13. The Greek word Sin “hamartia” is derived from the root word “hamartanō”, which historically was an archers term that means to “miss the mark.”

____________Thirteen Thursday