Loose Leaf Notes

1. I got a Scrabble Bingo with the word “Gummies,” a word that wasn’t on my radar a couple of years ago.

2. I’m not a big cat person or dog person, but I am Dogtown Roadhouse person, which means I love to dance to live music. See HERE.

3. I won the Easter Egg lottery and I didn’t even buy a ticket. See HERE.

4. My unexpectedly found sparkly pink Easter egg was filled with a stack of quarters. “What are you going to do with those quarters,” Joe later asked me.  “I don’t know. I guess I’ll go to the laundromat and wash our clothes,” I  joked.

5. I posted the above picture on Facebook of our neighborhood cardinal while explaining how it felt like banging my head against the wall when Facebook wouldn’t let me post and I could only post pictures and type in comments.

6. I’ve been on Facebook for sixteen years and have been posting news reels of excerpts from the latest news for the past 7 years without problem. But now when I try to post my IN THE NEWS, I get a message that my post is being processed and that Facebook will get back with me when it is ready, but they don’t. I’m feeling frustrated and censored, I wrote in a comment, and someone directed me to an article about how Facebook is limiting how much political content a user can see.

7. So first they let political misinformation that helped Trump get elected flood the platform, and now they want to limit political content when politics can’t be separated from our lives because it directly influences what kind of world we live in and we need reliable news more than ever.

8. Seen of Facebook: “Being taught to avoid talking about politics and religion has led to a lack of understanding of politics and religion. What we should have been taught was how to have a civil conversation about a difficult topic.”

9. Performed by the New River Theater Guild at the June Bug Center, the two-weekend show run of Godspell concluded with a standing ovation on Easter Eve. Based on the 2011 Broadway revival of the 1971 off-Broadway production, the local musical was an upbeat rendition with a comical modern twist that included smart phones and a beat box song performance. Liam Fentress played the role of Jesus and was supported by 10 fellow actors who played various roles, everything from sheep and goats to devils and angels, but mostly they portrayed his followers… See pictures and videos of the production HERE.

10. Like loved but abandoned children / too many to remember their names / Like too many clothes in a closet /without places to go to wear them /What is my quota / How is one not like another / What are they for? – Read Too Many Poems in its entirety HERE.

11. I can’t keep my notebooks, folders and online poetry storage straight. With a sidebar of “poetry,” my blog does help as a filing cabinet, and I do find poem occasionally that I have no memory of! My poet friend Katherine and I have been developing duo reading themes, so that adds to the pile up, or should I say mix-up.

12. At least they don’t need dusting.

13. “In order to grow you must give up the struggle to remain the same.”  The Untethered Soul

______Thirteen Thursday