Loose Leaf Notes

1. Be aware or Beware

2. Blah Blah or Blab Blab?

3. “I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again,” Georgia O’Keeffe

4. Summer is like a firefly in a jar. It soon stops being so actively bright, and you eventually have to let it go. Same thing with children.

5. The sky is a blue canvas for the tallest sunflowers HERE.

6. Godzilla Sunflower HERE.

7. Best answer yet on ‘what do you think happens when we die?’ from Ethan Hawke: “I don’t think we die. I don’t think we have an understanding of the divine concept of time. I don’t think we’re any more capable of understanding a clock than a dog it. I think something much bigger is going on than we’re aware of in our day to day routines. I don’t think I have the intelligence or the DNA to answer that question.”

8. Love is in the word Solve.

9. Recently people in Virginia spotted a large black ring floating in the sky. See HERE. A meteorologist for Wavy TV said the cause was likely pyrotechnics or similar incident of concentrated fire causing a smoke ring to rise. Fellow meteorologist Steve Fundaro hypothesized it might have resulted from an industrial process.

10. More Turning Back – New Neuropathways: I dreamt that I missed my driveway and had to re-route. The new route went down a hill on a dirt pathway. It was a familiar place, but was muddy. It got muddier and muddier and at some point, a body of water appears that blocks us (others are there too). Now on foot, I turn back. A young man befriends me and walks with me. The mud has dried up. A woman just starting down doesn’t turn back but pushes her way through a narrow opening, passing us.  We drive to town. I see a friend at Outer Space. I realize it’s Scrabble day and don’t know if I will be able to make it. I decide to try but must go home first to clean the mud off my feet and get new shoes.

11. Barack Obama at DNC Convention on Trump’s campaign to be president: “We have seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse.”

12. Michelle Obama in reference to Trump’s comments at the June debate—in which he claimed that immigrants coming into the U.S were “taking Black jobs”— “Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?”

13. It’s never too late put flowers on the table / to let the song birds of your childhood / sing like Jericho through middle age / To let them be blue / and enjoy them when they’re golden / to visit Claude Monet’s garden in spring.  Read Never too Late in its entirety HERE.  See photos of our 2018 trip to Monet’s Garden HERE. 

_________Thirteen Thursday