Loose Leaf Notes

1. Being in a dream group is a great way to really get to know someone. Dreams are not about small talk or egos.

2. My rating scale for movies: Memorable, Forgettable, Regrettable.

3. Brooke Shields has said she deals with aging with Lotions and Potions. Joe says he needs Projects and Objects.

4. Mine might be Space and Grace?

5. In the Driver’s Seat: I used to dream of flying / and then falling / I marveled that I never / hit bottom/ and never died / Now I dream that I wake up driving / I can’t see the road / and don’t know where I’m going

6. Every dream and every poem is a case note.

7 .We can’t say, “wake me when it’s over”, because it won’t be over till we wake up.” My Dharmacratic friend Will

8. It’s like a game of scrabble. I can have my play ready but someone goes before me and the board changes and I have to change my game plan, but I continue to play my best game.

9. Sometimes I’m driving in reverse / and it’s all going by too fast / I need to pull over / I NEED TO PULL OVER / I arrive / but I never crash… Read In the Driver’s Seat in its entirety HERE.

10. Who could have dreamt this up? There is a series of children’s novels written in the late 1800s about a boy named Baron Trump who lives at Castle Trump.  Writer/ reviewer Jaime Fuller wrote in Politico that Baron Trump is “precocious, restless, and prone to get in trouble”, often mentions his massive brain, and has a personalized insult for most people he meets. Chris Riotta noted in Newsweek that Baron Trump’s adventures begin in Russia, and also mentioned another book of Ingersoll’s, The Last President, in which the president’s home city of New York is riven by protests against a rigged presidential election. – More HERE. 

11. Every poet should hear THIS.

12. “If you’re taking the word at face value, and you just say ‘orange’, nothing is going to rhyme with it exactly. If you enunciate it and make it more than one syllable, or-ange, you can say, like, I put my or-ange, four inch, door hinge in stor-age and ate porr-idge with Geo-rge.” Eminem

13. I missed The Kind’s 39th anniversary bash Friday night at Parkway Brewing, but in a gestalt move I caught the Grateful Dad’s at the Buffalo Mountain Brewery Saturday Night. Their more official name is T H C and Friends. There are three Wills in the band. I suggested they call the band The Traveling Wills. – More from We Like These Bands HERE.

_________Thirteen Thursday