Loose Leaf Notes

1. Moon Positions – Laid-back moon / Lounging crescent / Adjusts to upright / Luminescence

2. I don’t like the sound / of water flooding / or a faucet dripping / like thoughtless talk / I don’t have a platitude / or a rehearsed answer / I don’t want a finish line / or to start over / I don’t want the lights / left on all night… Read my poem I Don’t Have in its entirety HERE.

3. “Wholly unprepared, we embark upon the second half of life… But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning: for what was great in the morning will be little at the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.” Carl Jung

4. Do we give up our borrowed miracles / while starry night lights go out / while worn-out sunflowers bow / and our busywork / winds down? – Read my poem What would Carl Jung Say in its entirety HERE.

5. Lampshade Mardi Gras Costume HERE. 

6. Lampshading is not like gaslighting. It’s a writing technique used when character or narrator makes a quick, self-aware remark about how ridiculous, convenient, or cliché a plot point is, and then the story simply continues.

7. Fall leaves are like lights going out.

8. We’ve had three important community friends pass away in recent weeks. Most recently Doug Thompson who was my blog server for more than a decade. Think of THIS as Doug’s farewell post.

9. 2008 Blog post The Café Porch Scrabble Game in which I Played the Word ‘Blog’ and Rosemary Complimented Doug on His New Haircut: The high protein peanut gallery at the table next to ours included Tom Ryan, a local satirist who authors the Floyd Enquirer, and Doug Thompson, political commentator and founder of Capital Hill Blue and Blue Ridge Muse. Both are red meat writers who from time to time stir up controversy. Tom had his notebook spread out on the table, so I took mine out too, just to level the playing field, in the event that something other than Scrabble got played.

10. First it was Lester, whose death rallied friends to attend several tributes and then Leo, my neighbor for 35 years who I feel sort of lost without. Someone took a picture of this picture at his celebration of life that I went to on Sunday.

11. Someone left the porch light on HERE.

12. Well, you’re been seeing all the things that I’ve been seeing with my eyes / And hearing with your ears and dealing with the times / If it wasn’t enough the execution they botched / For their next big trick, they want you all to watch” – From Death by Firing Squad by Jesse Welles

13. “As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.” Albert Einstein

__________Thirteen Thursday