Sunday, April 25, 2010

Ten Things I Know...

1.) Having one ear clogged for multiple days is definitely one of the top ten annoying things that can physically happen. FINE I’ll go to the damn doctor.

2.) I’m still always surprised that I ever worked for the Navy, although I did get to eat lunch once with 3500 cadets at the Naval Academy. That was cool.

3.) Politics are exhausting, both personally and professionally.

4.) Scrabble would be more fun if you could also play Latin words.

5.) One cannot underestimate the importance of good signage.

6.) Sometimes you are too old/too professionally employed to dye your hair purple. Which is kind of a bummer. Because I’m currently craving this hair.





7.) The voice of Terry Gross is one of the supreme auditory experiences in life.


8.) If I ever need handicap tags, I’m totally going this route:


As an aside I still mourn the lost opportunity to ever have scooter race with the brotherman on my late mother’s electrified wheelchairs.


9.) One should always own a good hat.

10.) The happiest people on earth are not at Disney World. They are at Baconfest.

JOY for Monday...shhhh...it's a SECRET!

Monday, April 5, 2010

I kept myself from making a really bad pun about cattle and eyes. You're welcome.



So, when my fingers started spitting out words tonight (that would be an awesome superhero power, would it not?)it started as some strange, roamy thing about inspiration that was a tad sweet and mooshy…and it was all very odd, like I was Buffalo Bill in a skin suit. I’m not that girl, I’m inspired by beauty and art, and many other things that touch the human condition…but I am not a Blue Mountain Arts Card, mercifully so. The better word, the active word, the fire under your ass – sledgehammer to the problem word is …

Catalyze. To Catalyze. Catalyzing. Say it! See how it feels on your tongue…

Electric…yes?

TEN of the most CATALYZING things that have ever been said to me.

• Can’t.

• Well, if you don’t know where you are supposed to be, why don’t you just decide where you want to be?

• I tried to make it work with you.

• No.

• I decided long ago that you were on your own.

• Once time is gone, you can’t ever get it back.

• You gotta want it.

• Yes.

• Aren’t we a little bit old for that?

• Does it sound like a better life to follow your dreams, or to follow your fears? (thanks brotherman)

Some of these were from people I love, some from people who my life touched briefly, and some are from people who no longer are entitled to my time. One is from my third grade teacher. I thank them all for passing through. We never know what will spring us into action, but I'm eternally grateful for the random moment that reverberates, regardless of its genesis.

JOY! Monday! Before there was Law and Order....

I'm feeling some Jerry Orbach today....