Loose Leaf Notes

1. Aka January Juncos.

2. Even Bob Dylan has a Christmas album. Now I have a Christmas poem HERE.

3. If you want more social life go to a grocery store before a snowstorm.

4. Have you RED this?

5. The Belltone hearing-aid people are predatory with their phone calls and mailings that try to get you to sign up. I just received an “Important Notice” on a pink slip from them that made me feel I was being taken to court.

6. I don’t like smoothies to take the place of a meal or a zoom to take the place of an in-person meet-up.

7. A new bird came to the feeder this week, a Cassin’s finch. It has a rust-brown body and a bright red tufted head that looks like a mohawk. I had never seen a bird like that before.

8. I also learned about a new creature from a 7-year-old new friend. She was wearing a pin of a pink axolotl. It was kind of silly looking and we were all sure was a cartoon character. She insisted it was real, an amphibian she said and she even told us how to spell it so that we could google it. Sure enough! It’s a salamander.

9. Axolotl’s develop to maturity without going through metamorphosis. They are endangered and can regenerate their body parts. The pink ones are “leucistic” axolotls.

10. “Consciousness is a feature of reality. The whole universe is a field and everything that happens is part of that field. This field has memory,” says Dr. Ervin Laszlo, an American philosopher of science, system’s theory and a two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee

11. “So what happens can be recalled in principle as information in this field in this cosmic sense. Something that happened at any one time does not disappear completely. I recommend the looking at Alfred North Whitehead (mathematician/philosopher).  He described all these things that are before the quantum physics became known, as he described it in terms of a single logical scheme of how things hang together are all things conspire as each other to create any one thing, and any one thing is present in all other things.” Laszlo

12. “God creeps in. Human minds are the universe’s only instruments for reflecting on itself. The fact of our existence suggests a cosmic approval of it. We may be accidents of matter and energy, but we can’t help circling back to the sense of a meaning that is unaccountable by the application of what we know. If God is a human invention, good for us! We had to come up with something.” From The Art of Dying by Peter Schjeldahl

13. Shine Bright Like a Diamond HERE. 

__________Thirteen Thursday