Loose Leaf Notes

1. This is the stuff fairy tales are made of.

2. The days of eating garden corn over the butter dish are over.

3. My phone plant identifier app calls these overgrown plants ‘wild lettuce.’

4. The sky is a blue canvas for the tallest sunflowers / A hummingbird whirs in search of bright colors / Leaves glide from trees like swallowtails surfing / Bird calls grow faint and unconvincing… Read Summer Exhale in its entirety HERE.

5. Every year at this time:  My husband has tools / for digging potatoes / but I like to use my hands / Reaching down deep / into the musty dark soil / mounded up like swollen bellies / I feel around for the curve of their bodies / wiggle them loose like teeth… Read A Sweet Labor in its entirety HERE.

6. Favorite line in a song: “They say how’d you write that song. I really love the chorus. I said I stole Bob Dylan’s and Leonard Cohen’s Thesaurus.

7. The song is titled “Thesaurus” and is by songwriter Steven Keene.  He wrote 97 verses (but didn’t use them all) using parts of Dylan’s and Cohen’s songs with several lines rhyming with “thesaurus” and sounding a lot like Dylan.  Listen HERE.

8. THIS IS AMAZING! JOSH IS MY SON – “In this short video, Josh Copus, owner of the Old Marshall Jail Hotel in Marshall, NC, conducts a tour of the historic jail built in 1910 that he co-purchased in 2016 and renovated into a stunning boutique hotel and restaurant. Copus talks about his vision for the space, and shows how he transformed objects like metal bed frames and iron radiators into unique industrial design pieces using knowledge he gained in welding classes at A-B Tech Madison.”

9. How many bucks in my yard? If your not sure, watch THIS.

10. Born to be Wild in 2016  HERE. 

11. Wild Thang HERE. 

12. When the sun looked like Saturn. 

13. Not the Doghouse but the Dogtown Roadhouse, a Dance Party with CC Coates. ___________Thirteen Thursday