Loose Leaf Notes

1. I think I’m a Dude: “I think the Dude is an example of someone who doesn’t feel that he needs to achieve anything. He likes lying in the bathtub drinking White Russians with the whale music on. He’s just taking it easy, taking it the way it is. There’s a lot of generosity in that, you know? People talk about being seekers, searching for meaning, happiness, whatever. I think of myself as a finder, because I find all these things right around me.” Jeff Bridges on the Big Lebowski

2. Play in the sand HERE.

3. THIS is my idea of a sand bar.

4. Can we dream our way back into non-existence? – A line found written in my journal.

5. Probably true, but I know that dreaming is more than that: On the drive home from Florida, we listened to some podcasts. One, spoke on how the reason for dreaming is to keep our visual cortex active otherwise if we are in a dark place and have no visual input, our visual cortex could atrophy, would be vulnerable to ‘takeover’ by other senses. More HERE.

6. “What you won’t read in the paper, except now – I was born in 1942, a year that hasn’t been recent for a long time and now I’m strolling toward 80, an age when I can stop feeling bad that I never finished reading Moby-Dick. I got to page 20 and Melville hadn’t even gotten them on the boat yet. At 80 I put the idea of self-improvement behind me once and for all. I have considered cosmetic surgery, a muscle implant around my mouth so that I can grin, but once you start corrective surgery, you may go on to have a chest lift or butt reduction and your belly button winds up in your armpit and your butt comes out lopsided so you’ll need to wear orthopedic pants. So I accept myself as is…” Garrison Keillor

7. The buildings on Marco Island look like Lego Hotels. Joe walked through an army of seabirds like the Kung Fu Grasshopper, and I got too close to a seagull… Read more from In Which Doris Gets Her Margarita HERE. 

8. Joe gets coffee for the 6-hour drive home. But not before he spent some time at Terrapin Station. We just missed the Mardi Gras parade. But not the sunset. More HERE. 

9. Pool Life – I imagine it / as a tattoo / like Tupac’s ‘Thug Life’ / and Meyer’s ‘Home Life’ / I’d more prefer ‘Ocean Life’ / but the water’s too cold today / and it wouldn’t make as good a tattoo – Read Pool Life in its entirety HERE.

10. Place or palace?

11. “Vladimir Putin has killed Swedish neutrality and German pacifism in a single weekend.” Samuel Ramani

12. “To hate is like drinking salt water; it only makes the thirst worse.” From Kung Fu

13. “Hope’s interesting, isn’t it? I can’t turn hope off, it’s hopeless.  Jeff Bridges, The Dude and the Zen Master

_______Thirteen Thursday