13: Can’t Touch This
1. The empty backside of insurance policies makes good printer paper.
2. Quantum Physics is the LSD of science, a real mind blower.
3. Joe to Colleen: Thanks for being so nice to me lately, like for the past 35 years.
4. We watched the meteor shower at 4 a.m. Sunday morning. It was a flash in the pan, aka the Big Dipper.
5. “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” Louise Erdrich
6. When I was the night girl / and you were the sun boy / we made straw into gold / and sowed a magic bean / We waited for a boat story / and a fairy godmother moon / until the nightingale / returned to the forest / until all the best secrets came true… Read Once Upon a Time in its entirety HERE.
7. The word ‘swing,’ which has just come up in a poem I’m writing, is both a noun and a verb. It’s pretty hard to come up with an alternative way to say ‘swing on a swing.’
8. Our pool days are numbered.
9. “I don’t mind getting older. I do mind getting uglier. There are so many great things about getting older. For example, I don’t think there’s very many things that I know now that I didn’t know when I was 16 – but there’s a big difference between knowing something and realizing it. Realizing something takes 50 years… I’m more relaxed now, if you can believe it. This is the real mellow version of me. Ageing is like being a pothead again. Though that’s not to say there are not things that wind me up daily.” Chrissie Hynde, 72
10. T-shirt: “It’s weird being the same age as old people.”
11. There’s a drag queen Barbie and one with tattoos.
12. “The problem with the Republicans is the right hand doesn’t know what the far-right hand is doing.” David Clayton
13. Waiting for a meteorite / to shoot across the sky / is like waiting for a blind date / to show up… More from watching the Perseid Meteor Shower for Kyla HERE.
______Thirteen Thursday
August 17th, 2023 8:40 pm
That’s an interesting list.
Had to laugh about number 12, even though I am asking myself if itś not the right, but the left hand..
August 18th, 2023 7:56 am
I am overwhelmed by the political news these days. It just keeps being a body slam every time you read the news. It’s crazy.
August 20th, 2023 12:42 am
Quantum Physics is a pure joy. I love it. It makes the kind of sense that the heart, trying to understand Nuclear physics, craves.
I have trouble posting here but I hope this work around does the trick. I love your blog. Let’s see if thus one actually gets to you..