An Aries Knows (this site is more fun when people read and comment)
I haven’t done a Polyvore collection in a long while. Since March is Riley’s birth month, and I miss him always, I made a Beatles collage in his honor.
Sending love across the universe to you, as always.
Your intelligence, humor, loyalty, good sense, and moral compass have been gifts since we met at eighteen. I love you so much.
The linoleum in the library remains but is about to be covered again. As I told Tom, Tim, Debby, and Lynne, “Like Cher, Keith Richards, and cockroaches, 1970s flooring is eternal.” Tom pointed out they have varying degrees of effectiveness as moisture barriers, however.
Saved without flood damage from the carport bins… a tome written AND illustrated by aspiring author Becky Cochrane. Very ambitious. And like so many works to follow, unfinished as those lips drawn by the young writer/illustrator whisper toward the flickering flame of creativity…
Perhaps some young pup will plagiarize an excerpt for a future Pet Prose submission.
I haven’t cracked open this gem yet, but I’m pretty sure nothing in it will measure up to my favorite thing on the cover: “To Edwin Harper–a friend not soon forgotten. Also to my 6th grade friends–who first read this book.”
While I do actually remember some of my sixth grade friends, I have not a single clue as to the identity of one Edwin Harper. Perhaps not soon forgotten, but forgotten all the same. Sorry, Edwin.
I’ve featured this album belonging to my parents on my blog a couple of times. I think it survived the flood, though I haven’t actually put it (or any other record) on the turntable yet to test that theory.
However, I don’t think anyone would doubt this one’s a goner. No indeed.
Deep from one of the flooded bins on the carport, I rescued this. It’s a little bag I made when I was around 15. I don’t remember if I used my jeans, Riley’s, or First Love Tim’s [2022 ETA: Tim’s], but it had a rawhide cord that pulled it into a little pouch, and I often hung it from a belt loop. That rawhide cord had come out and become a slimy thing that scared the crap out of me because I thought there was a snake in the bin, even though snakes aren’t slimy and whatever, fear knows no reason. After some serious laundering, my little denim bag is fine. As I recall, we called these dope bags, but I never had pot in mine, probably only a few dollars and some change. Always had to have a dime with me for that emergency call. There’s a whole generation who thinks phone calls were a quarter, and more generations who don’t know what a pay phone is.
…it’s fantastic.
The models were in a flooded closet but safe in their bin. No harm done. Now they’re in a nice, dry, temperature-controlled storage room until they can return home.
Please note the mid-century linoleum that was under my flooring. I think we had that crap in our kitchen when I was junior high school.
Current Photo Friday theme: 2016 in Review
I’m finishing 2016 with a big time-traveling, musical blowout. Tom has given me a turntable, and I’ve christened it with my favorite rock and roll song ever, Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road.” I don’t care if my old records are warped and scratchy–like the dude at the music store who sold us the turntable said, “If you want to hear perfection, you’re probably going to download it or buy a CD. If you want to experience all those records you loved…”
So that’s what I’m doing, and honoring Bruce because 2016 is the year the words in his memoir reminded me of everything I love about creativity and honesty and why I need those in my life. I am full of joy because of all the songwriters, poets, and authors and their words and ideas–and all the musicians who gave some of them a soundtrack. Happy old years, happy new year!
Ugh, this year, the last week…the death of Leonard Cohen, whose songs I’ve had the privilege of teaching as poetry (and Kate McKinnon’s SNL opening was everything, by the way).
Now another loss that sent me to the closet where my silent albums live.
Lucky enough to have seen him at Farm Aid V, and lucky enough to have friends who could afford all his albums when I was a financially struggling youngster. Besides his solo success, Leon Russell recorded and performed with damn near everyone in his long career. Songwriter, session musician, superstar. This is for Debbie and all the nights we listened to Will O’ the Wisp, for that character Douglas and what he owes to Leon Russell, among many, and for Riley, just because I miss him so much.