The Thirteen Thursday Progress Report
1. I’ve never been very sports-minded. It’s taken THIS recent injury to my leg to get me in soccer knee pads. They come in handy when I have to crawl on all fours to get around.
2. Since I’ve hurt my leg and taken to crawling, I’ve noticed how dirty it is down here on the floor.
3. On the third day of my injury, Joe was able to track down some crutches for me. I also use a wheeled office chair to scoot around the kitchen.
4. So much for our IPOD living room Dance Parties. Maybe I can get Joe to vacuum to “What’s the Frequency Kenneth.”
5. If you Image Google “The Dog Ate My Homework” THIS is what you’ll see.
6. I pretty much used to get all A’s in school until Algebra came along. Algebra and trying to solve complicated math word problems made me feel like I was going to have a seizure. I later learned I had THIS.
7. Barack Obama has a Facebook page, which is where I learned that he’s a Leo and his favorite musicians are Miles Davis; John Coltrane; Bob Dylan; and Stevie Wonder.
8. Not being able to walk made Steven Tyler’s song “Walk this Way” come to mind. I think Tyler looks like Chrissie Hynde with Mick Jagger’s lips. I should know. I saw him up real close. That story is HERE.
9. Remembering Summer Through my Feet: Growing up on a peninsula in Hull, Massachusetts, my whole body was immersed in water for most of the summer. My feet would flap like flippers through the cool dark liquid bay, while I imagined I was a seal or a mermaid. I recall the feeling of sand through my toes and the sticky residue of dried salt water on my body and in my hair. I can still remember my revelation when, as a young girl, I licked my own skin and tasted the ocean. ~Excerpt from a WVTF Radio Essay, which can be read in its entirety HERE.
10. A Not So Stupid Dog Trick: The best I’ve come across HERE.
11. In the News: Green our Vaccines March on Washington, rally, with keynote address by Robert Kennedy Jr. Watch an ABC video with Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey HERE.
12. What’s the end product of all this progress in the name of profit? What does it provide or promote? At what expense do we proceed? Is our progress really greed? Can we progress to produce less? Will our children be prosperous? Can we promise? ~ Excerpt from a poem I wrote in 1990, called “The Pros and Cons of Progress.”
13. Yes We Can: HERE.
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Comments
I'm so sorry about your foot, but I sure loved this list. I was fascinated with your algebra story. I don't fit all of the descriptions, but enough are true that I just sat here with my mouth open. Wow.
And I used to love pretending that I was a dolphin.
Posted by: Sunny | June 4, 2008 9:11 PM
Hi, Sunny. I was a mermaid. And mermaids don't need math.
Posted by: colleen | June 4, 2008 9:16 PM
And I thought breaking/dislocating my shoulder was bad! I guess there is no good injury. Amazing how the simple things we do become major feats.
Posted by: June | June 4, 2008 9:20 PM
I'm a little worried about how Barack is using his time. A Facebook page? And the other day I got an e-mail from him that started, "Diane, I'm just about to go to the podium..." I think he shouldn't be typing me e-mails when he's about to give a speech!
Posted by: Di | June 4, 2008 9:26 PM
Oh, that foot looks bad in the photo below. I couldn't bring myself to click on the link to more info about it, though I do hope you heal quickly! Perhaps you'll come up with a way to hop and party! I enjoyed this post though I discovered I have discalculia. Oh dear.
Posted by: SandyCarlson | June 4, 2008 9:29 PM
And Obama's birthday is the day after mine. No wonder I like him so much. :-)
Posted by: Jennifer | June 4, 2008 10:11 PM
#8 is correct: Tyler does look like Hyndes + Jagger.
Posted by: Buck Naked Politics | June 4, 2008 10:20 PM
LOVE your comment to Sunny...me, too :-)
Wonder what happened to the movie they were filming in the Steven Tyler post?
That dog in #10 scared me! I think it's an alien ...
Posted by: Janet | June 4, 2008 10:44 PM
Great list! I love 7 and 12! Thanks for sharing :)
Happy TT!
Posted by: Allison | June 4, 2008 11:21 PM
I've been there and done that with a leg injury. Worst is going up and down steps. I would slide up and down on my rear!
Posted by: SJ Reidhead | June 4, 2008 11:59 PM
Yes we can but I don't think that we will. Regardless of who is president. We can always hope, though.
Posted by: CountryDew | June 5, 2008 8:17 AM
I really liked the "Yes we can" video.
I hope you are feeling better with each passing day.
I now have poison Ivy on my RIGHT hand. It is always my right side.........remember. xo
Posted by: Sherry | June 5, 2008 9:06 AM
Lots of good walking songs in country...
- by the traffic lights, everybody's looking as she walks by, she don't look back, she ain't doing nothing wrong, lord have mercy, baby's got her blue jeans on.
- just keep on walking, cuz I'm just not talking with the kind of love that you've got on your mind.
bet those crutches help. Joe's such a good fella.
Posted by: Pearl | June 5, 2008 12:19 PM
Thank you for sharing the Yes We Can video. It made me cry. Sorry about your injury--being disabled during the summer makes you realize how important keeping up with every day really is. Plants will get thirsty, floors will get dirty, spiders will invade, and the weeds will take over.
Posted by: Amy the Black | June 5, 2008 12:22 PM
Ouch...the foot looks like it hurts a lot! Love your 13 - I especially like the video of the singing dog...it was too cute!
Oh, I hear Tyler is in my area a lot, too...up the road a bit - but, I've yet to run into him.
Posted by: Sara | June 5, 2008 3:09 PM
Colleen...so sorry about your ankle....are you going to be able to come out tomorrow night for the Barrel House Mama's? I hope so.
Posted by: rio semione | June 5, 2008 8:20 PM
Hi Rio. I'll have to see how I feel. If I don't Joe will represent us both.
Posted by: colleen | June 5, 2008 8:50 PM
Yes we can!
I bet your foot really is sore. Oddly I made A's in math, even Calculus in college but I barely got a C in History. I just can't remember names and dates and things. Numbers click but dates don't. But then I turned out to be an Accountant which was good I guess.
I can clean my floors on my hands and knees and 15 minutes they look dirty to me. I don't get it.
Posted by: Deana | June 6, 2008 10:55 AM
I forgot to tell you that I came in from pinching my petunias...thought of you and wanted to come see how your foot is!
Posted by: Deana | June 6, 2008 10:56 AM
Colleen, I came here and left a comment too. I don't know why it did not show up.
I even read through your previous post. I sincerely wish that your foot gets better soon. SO THAT YOU CAN COME, VISIT ME IN INDIA! And we will share a cup of tea and discuss books and poetry.
Deal?
:D
Posted by: gautami tripathy | June 6, 2008 11:28 AM
I don't know how I missed you yesterday. Sorry.... my head's been in too many places this week. How is the ankle??
Posted by: On a Limb with Claudia | June 6, 2008 8:05 PM
sending "heal fast" wishes to you. girl, if i got down on the floor to crawl i couldn't get back up again on 2 feet, much less on one foot! you have to be in pretty good shape!
i love the idea of the wheeled chair in the kitchen. i had to do that a bit myself with a torn knee. you can just throw the wheeled chair in the truck and if joe can tote you to the truck and put you in the chair in town you can wheel around all over floyd to those fabulous community get togethers you guys have! we will, of course, want picture of this! ;)
Posted by: sky | June 6, 2008 11:52 PM