Loose Leaf Notes

1. That pesky Q. When I played Scrabble at the beach, I was winning until someone went out and I got stuck with a Q. This time it was my friend Jayn who got stuck with it and got 10 points taken off her score.

2. Why do we even have a Q? Isn’t C and K enough?

3. Risk and risqué seem related.

4. Showdown or Sideshow?

5. “Days are getting slightly longer — and it’s due to climate change-As temperatures rise, massive amounts of ice are melting from Greenland and Antarctica. That meltwater flows into the oceans, redistributing the mass closer to the equator. When the planet is thicker around the middle, its daily rotation takes a bit longer…” NPR- More HERE.

6. I think of the word smash as the mutant plural of mash.

7. I turn in your direction / like a flower turns to the sun / I look for you / when I forget what it means / to be a flower / When you forget too / I lean on time / to stand up straight / I hold onto the memory / of the garden… Read Heliotropic in its entirety HERE.

8. Bill Bryson on walking the Appalachian Trail. It sounds a lot like being unemployed/retired:  “Life takes on a neat simplicity. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It’s really quite wonderful, really.”

9. Wordle is right up my alley.

10. And THIS.

11. Everyone had great lines that were delivered with a punch that also showed the women’s unconditional love and support for each other.  The play was sprinkled with small town themes and some beauty parlor gossip.  The costumes alone were worth the price of admission. -Read Steel Magnolias @The June Bug in its entirety HERE.

12. Q: The form of the letter could have been based on the eye of a needle, a knot, or even a monkey with its tail hanging down. Q is a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in many European languages.  In common with other glyphs derived from the Proto-Sinaitic script, the letter has been suggested to have its roots in Egyptian hieroglyphs.

13. I posted this Joyce Vance quote about Kamala Harris on Facebook – “Nothing says women refuse to accept second-class citizenship like electing one” –  and a reader commented that she wants to turn it into a bumper sticker.

___________Thirteen Thursday