Loose Leaf Notes

1. We have a legendary fabric store in Floyd with 3 floors of fabric for quilting, garments, bridal, formal, drapery, upholstery and etc. At one time the building was a high school, which is why the building is called Schoolhouse Fabrics and has a large blackboard on the 3rd floor.

2. Remember when we had to raise our hands to speak?

4. Remember when we lived in Hull Massachusetts and danced every weekend while still in high school  at the Nantasket Surf?

5. “I’m thinking about my brother Jim dancing at the Surf in his mohair sweater and the pressed pants he paid me a quarter to iron, and Danny who swayed to music with his eyes closed and a soulful look on his face. Thinking about my brother Joey dancing makes me smile. He needs such a big space to strut around. And like me, my three sisters all love to dance. When we get together, we get up on the first song and don’t sit down until the last. But I wonder how long our dancing tradition will survive? And who will be the last dancer? Read The Last Dancer in its entirety HERE. 

6. It all starts with a flower / doodled in winter / in black and white / and grows into a big bang / of colored scribbles and spirals / an immaculate conception / born from the underworld – Read I’m Drawing on the Blank Slate of This Day HERE. 

7. Twirl Girls, including Yours Truly, Get a  Dead Reckoning @Dogtown  HERE.

8. Maybe I can go HERE next time I visit family in the South Shore of Boston MA. Either that or Alice’s Restaurant.

9. THIS is where I want to go next Easter.

10. We went to an Easter Brunch, and I was surprised to see that my tea was served in a Christmas mug.

11. Joe did better with his Chai.

12. We all have algorithms in our minds. The more we think about something the more we get more of it.

13. Now I scour the news / and read the long stories / They come in like ticker-tape / breaking all normalcy / I want to open what’s closed / and hold the truth together / I want to convince myself / that poems still matter – Read A Literary Journal in its entirety HERE.

________Thirteen Thursday