Loose Leaf Notes

1. About or a bout?

2. I’m an optimistic pessimist

3. Parody and reality are too close for comfort these days.

4. Sometimes you feel like you’ve lived too long / Days drip slowly on the page / You catch yourself / Pacing the cage  -Bruce Cockburn

5. It’s been a long time. I was moved to hear Pacing the Cage, a song by Bruce Cockburn sung by Keith Goggin at Dogtown Roadhouse on Saturday.

6. There’s been some buzz lately about BlueSky: “The great X-odus is under way. More than 1 million new users have joined the social media platform Bluesky since the US election. Many are seeking to escape Elon Musk’s X amid warnings from anti-hate speech campaign groups and the EU about misinformation and extremism on the platform.” -Guardian

7. “I was dreamin’ when I wrote this / Forgive me if it goes astray / But when I woke up this mornin’ / Could’ve sworn it was judgment day…” Prince

8. I believed the above and gasped when I touched it because it felt so real.

9. I didn’t believe this (right).

10. “Don’t make any / exaggerated movements” / my neurologist said / But I see what needs straightening / and feel the fear of disappearing / It could be said / that to be in constant motion / is to be a moving target / and being still is a sitting duck – Read my poem The Moving Target in its entirety HERE.

11. PPE Marshall NC fashion show after weeks of mud flood cleanup HERE. 

12. And THIS is the latest real deal update from my son Josh who was on the front line.

13. Back to the Wordle drawing board.

__________Thirteen Thursday