Loose Leaf Notes

1. The weekend was full with two special birthdays and a beautiful memorial celebration for a friend.

2. “It’s a white ball of fire! became a catchphrase.

3. It was actually a carrot cake.

4. I just now lost the exclamation point on my keyboard. I couldn’t find it by looking, so had to trust my fingers.

5. “One is a flower. With others, we are a garden.” Jackie Farr, 7/22/49 – 9/17/22

6. “You might recall what it’s like to be with someone who has grieved deeply. The person has no layer of protection, nothing left to defend. The mystery is looking out through that person’s eyes. For the time being, he or she has accepted the reality of loss and has stopped clinging to the past or grasping at the future. In the groundless openness of sorrow, there is a wholeness of presence and a deep natural wisdom.” ― Tara Brach

7. Duel or a duo? It’s still up in the air as to who is tallest, me or my 12-year-old grandson

8.  THIS is me trying out his new virtual reality job simulator video game.

9. New Word: Floopy, as in ‘my vertigo is acting up and I’m feeling kinda floopy.’

10. Say Tea! That’s what the Charleston Tea Plantation trolley driver said while taking our picture. -More from The Waiter at the Loggerhead Beach Grill Called Us Charlie’s Angels HERE.

11. Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has been credited with transforming the study of human origins after developing ways to allow for the examination of DNA sequences from archaeological and paleontological. His work demonstrated practical implications during the COVID-19 pandemic when he found that people infected with the virus who carry a gene variant inherited from Neanderthals are more at risk of severe illness than whose who do not… More HERE.

12. “A network of love criscrosses the globe. The delicate shining lines form a tenuous web from one end of the world to the other. There are so many threads of love in the world, so much love going on, for and from so many people. To have partaken of and to have given love is the greatest of life’s rewards. There seems never an end to the loving that goes on forever and ever. Loving and leaving are a part of living.” – Helen Nearing, from Loving and Leaving the Good Life, read at my friend Sumati’s memorial celebration.

13. “In all chaos, there is a cosmos; in all order a secret order.” Carl Jung _____________Thirteen Thursday