13: All the Right Numbers
1. Joe to Colleen at Zadie’s Café at The Old Marshall Jail: Joe: How’s your fish sandwich? Me: I thought it was chicken. Joe: It’s fish. Me: For a minute I thought it was fried clams. Joe: is it Cod? Me: No. Joe is it catfish? Me: No. It’s mild and white. Joe to Josh: What kind of fish is that? Josh: It’s chicken.
2. Not only did we see Floyd’s own country chart climbin’ star Morgan Wade perform at the Gray Eagle in Asheville, but she and her awesome band stayed at my son Josh and his wife Emily’s Old Marshall Jail Hotel in Marshall NC. We took a few pictures the next morning before they headed out to their next gig in Winston Salem: for my “scrapbook, you know the blog?” I told her. She was gracious and happy to be invited to stay at OMJ, which she said she lovvved… Read All in a Day: Aka Morgan Wade Goes to Jail for All the Right Reasons HERE. See my fish/chicken sandwich HERE.
3. A happy place or a happening place?
4. Number or more numb?
5. They Had Me at HELPLESS.
6. The lies the moon tells our eyes / It’s trick of romance… More from The Moon’s End by Alejandro Escude HERE.
7. I bought up all the silk nightshirts / that I could find on Ebay / because Amazon is not a river / and everything new is made of polyester / I watched a Youtube fiddler / whose bow was like a saw / that cut a groove of music / as he strummed it back and forth…
8. The album cover.
9. My cursor hand is a butterfly / spinning circle crops / hovering then landing / on the next new thought / Today I googled / plague or pandemic? / Bacteria or virus? / And the rules of Risk… Read When Google and Doodle Converge: Aka Writer at Work in its entirety HERE.
10. While in Marshall we met Jeremy French, a friend of my son Josh’s who founded and runs Making Whole, a woodworking studio, home to a nontraditional addiction treatment program in Asheville that teaches fine furniture building as a metaphor for sustainable sobriety and a productive life.
11. Jeremy says, “Life problems are emotionally charged and rooted in complicated stories we have about ourselves, so it can take a long time to see the truth. With furniture making, we get to skip that emotional labor and quickly see if something works or not. We find out what we need and what tools are accessible. We learn to break things down, ask the right questions, expand our resource set to discover where the answers are, and simply show up and trust the process… It’s impossible to maintain a facade for eight hours a day … the truth of who you are will come out. You can’t hide here…” More HERE.
12. These young and young-at-heart dancers are a true inspiration!
13. And THIS I something to crow about.
___________Thirteen Thursday
October 14th, 2021 5:53 am
Love it! The crow article is fascinating. I kind of new this already. One of my social worker friends has a tattoo on her back of a crow! She knows how smart they really are – they get a bad rap because we need scare crows to get them away from our corn!
I really like #9 & #11
October 14th, 2021 8:55 am
That program Making Whole, sounds incredibly fascinating. I loved the quote you put there. Thanks for sharing!
October 14th, 2021 11:47 am
That #7 touched a sore spot for me! I hate poly nightgowns, they are too hot! I can’t find anything else anymore in stores. And microfiber sheets? Hot again, and I can’t turn over smoothly! Don’t get me started on summer tops being rayon instead of cotton. Hot!
I can relate to the chicken/fish. Often my late husband would look at the chicken breast I’d cooked and ask, “Are you sure this isn’t fish?”
October 14th, 2021 2:40 pm
Asheville sounds like a great place to live. I’m glad your son found his place.