Loose Leaf Notes

1. We’re going to summer camp! Aka Floydfest. 

2. I LOVE our new LOVE mural in Floyd.

3. “While some issues are problems with a definite answer, the more challenging issues are polarities — situations in which both sides have benefits and drawbacks. Individuals who can distinguish between a problem to solve and a polarity to manage are much more effective in all aspects of their lives.” – American Psychological Association

4. My Facebook comment on Saturday that got 28 reactions, 10 comments and 2 shares:  We always wondered who would read and believe The National Enquirer and now we know.

5. My friend responding to my son’s creative Old Marshall Jail Hotel and Bar vision and construction: Impossible is not your dictionary!

6. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

7. Speaking of creativity, check out THIS sushi art.

8. A stroke of genius / on a live canvas / A tilted smile / in a metaphoric portrait – Read Picasso’s Moon in its entirety HERE.

9. “A friend once showed a Picasso to Picasso, who said, no, it was a fake. The same friend brought him, from yet another source, another would-be Picasso, and Picasso said that, too, was a fake. Then yet another from another source. “Also fake,” said Picasso. “But, Pablo,” said his friend “I watched you paint that with my own eyes.” Said Picasso, ‘I can paint fake Picassos as well as anybody.”’

10. The local Country Club pool is my therapy and my gym.

11. “Jayn Avery, a Floyd potter with a founding history with the Center, addressed the crowd about the Center’s repurposed barn beginnings. She noted the draw of mountain culture – those making their own fiddles, guitars and music –  to the back-to-the-land artists working with their hands who began settling in the county in the 1970s. “Every time I ride by and see the barn and art together, I think that represents Floyd,” Avery said…” Read more about 26 Years of Art at the Floyd Art Center, previously known as The Jacksonville Center HERE.

12. Quarantine or corn teen? The most misspelled word in each state …Experts analyzed Google Trends data from March 2020 to March 2021 and found that in 12 states, more people looked up how to spell quarantine than any other word.  California and Rhode Island had trouble with the vowels in separate; the consonants in exercise confused North Carolina; and Delaware habitually forgot the n in government. In one state, however, residents were mostly busy Googling how to spell pharaoh. And that state is Florida… Other top entries included which (people often tried wich and witch), and favorite — residents of seven states struggled to remember whether the U.S. uses the British spelling, favourite. Check out  your state HERE. 

13. I love when my corn is taller than me. Lookee HERE. 

______________Thirteen Thursday