Loose Leaf Notes

1. The Apple Just Fell HERE.

2. Joe: Even when I lose my Mo Jo, I can Go.  Me: But can you Turbo?  Joe: No.

3. As a tea lover who also loves beer and who splashed black tea on my white shirt at Yoga Jam, I said to my friend Gypsy Geoff, who was juggling chairs, buckets, hats and balls, “All I have to juggle is tea and beer.”

4. “Whenever I’m sad I think about how my boyfriend thought that “antipasta” was “every Italian food that’s not pasta.” -Recently seen tweet

5. Is THIS where someone says ‘Get a Room?’ to Joe and me.

6. You Don’t Know Jack O’Lantern.

8. The words are buried / in the Dollar Store journal / where grief and relief exist together / Where salt and sugar / both have their place / Where hurt deeply felt / has less of a hold / and is not a theory / but a theme that is lived … Read The Black Journal in its entirety HERE.

9.“I’m vaccinated and, no, I don’t know what’s in it – neither this
vaccine, the ones I had as a child, nor in the Big Mac, or in hot
dogs, or in other treatments… There’s a lot of things I don’t
know and never will… I just know one thing: life is short, very
short, and I still want to do something other than just going to work
every day or staying locked in my home. I still want to travel and hug
people without fear and find a little feeling of life “before”.” -Seen on Facebook

10. “If truth has been personalized – and it has – and if we’ve turned from organized religion – and we have – then what we have left is the Disorganized Religion of the One True Self. And now we have a plague. So: what is a generation of elders untested by real adversity worth to their juniors in a time of plague? What is a life’s work undertaken in peacetime mean for plaguetime? Who are strangers to you now? A problem to solve? A contamination that awaits? What’s the spirit etiquette of strangerhood?” – Stephen Jenkinson

11. “Want to save the Earth? Then don’t buy that shiny new iPhone-Planned obsolescence may be good for phone companies but it’s bad for users’ wallets and even worse for the planet, because it encourages people to treat their phones as disposable. No one really knows how much e-waste (electronic refuse) is generated every year, but one recent estimate put it at 53.6m metric tons in 2019. And as far as CO2 emissions are concerned, a 2018 Canadian university study estimated that building a new smartphone – and specifically, mining the rare materials inside them – accounts for 85% to 95% of the device’s total CO2 emissions for two years. -More HERE.

12. Monarch’s Rule (from 2019).

13. Favorite painting of the week HERE. 

___________Thirteen Thursday