Loose Leaf Notes

1. “The world comes to an end and the world keeps on going. Life is a series of sinking ships but still people go sailing as if it hadn’t happened. Disaster strikes and people wake up the next morning and have breakfast.” Garrison Keillor

2. Exist and Exit about sums up life.

3. Older or Elder?

4. Ladies to the rescue.

5. “I’ll say this: I look forward to dying. I tend to think of death as the last and best reward for a life well-lived and I’ll get around to it sometime”. Bob Weir, founding member of The Grateful Dead, 1947 – January 10, 2026

6. Wavelength: My life is a dream text / I cast and interpret / My mind is a magnet / that attracts alignments / With a field of awareness / beyond the body’s limits / My senses tune and transmit / signals of the universe

7. “Collective neuroscience is a rapidly growing field of research. An early, consistent finding is that when people converse or share an experience, their brain waves synchronize. Neurons in corresponding locations of the different brains fire at the same time, creating matching patterns, like dancers moving together. The experience of “being on the same wavelength” as another person is real, and it is visible in the activity of the brain.” -Scientific American

8. Still Grateful – The miracle was that Joe’s brother Mike got us 4 box seat passes. We had bought one extra ticket that we sold in the parking lot… We’ve come a long way since working in the parking lot and hoping for a miracle when we couldn’t afford a ticket, but those years were formative and magical and once a Dead Head always a Dead Head… More HERE.

9. Brown-eyed girl or Brown-eyed women and red grenadine?

10. “Wonder is where it starts, and though wonder is also where it ends, this is no futile path.” – Herman Hesse

11. When I look out my window, I think the red bow left over from Christmas on top on an the evergreen tree and behind the birdfeeder is a cardinal.

12. I had a dream that my car was parked in the  middle of our yard. I went to get out the passenger seat but saw two dogs who had come up to either side of the car. I called to Joe to come and get me. He came but started to play with the dogs who I saw were not violent at all. They didn’t even bark, so I got out of the car on my own.

13. Where’s the beef? It’s venison.

____________Thirteen Thursday