13: Flower Power
1. Earth Day in Floyd has a blog. Read all about it HERE.
2. Another new blog in my blogsphere: My Asheville potter son Josh is following in his mother’s footsteps as a documenter. He just started his own (collectively written) blog for the Carolina Kiln Build, an immersion onsite workshop for building two new kilns on his Marshall County property … coming soon. Check it out HERE.
3. Lately I feel like I’m two timing my blog whenever I spend a lot of time on Facebook.
4. I recently got involved for days posting a Facebook “Through the Years” retrospect photo album of my life from babyhood till now. If you liked the Easter bonnets HERE, you like some of THESE old photos.
5. Last month I saw a fascinating show on evolution vs. creationism on PBS. I was surprised to see how proven the theory of evolution actually is and was so in awe at the miraculous process of it that I asked myself ‘why can’ that be God or at least part of God's miraculous creation?’
6. A neuroscientist responds to the millions who would say that there shouldn't be a connection between God and science, a clip from the Tavis Smiley show that Joe and I watched this week HERE.
7. Other online germinations coming to bloom: An excerpted version of the Museletter – the 25 year old Floyd alter-native community forum built on back-to-the-land flower power – is now online HERE.
8. The computer screen is a writer’s empty canvas. Printers ink is the paint.
9. Draw your own powerful colorful flower HERE.
10. A quote we used in the Museletter this month: Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters.
11. “I wake up with blog entries like others wake up with dreams,” a recent one liner from a past TT that was posted on Blogations HERE.
12. Joe and I have been waiting for a very late check to be delivered, which brings a whole new meaning when it’s time for our daily walk and I say to him “let’s go CHECK the mail.”
13. I like to post a blog entry late at night and wake up to comments.
More Thirteen Thursday blooms are HERE.
Comments
Great list. Oh... the checks in the mail *wink
Happy T13!
Posted by: Adelle Laudan | April 15, 2009 10:29 PM
I planted my daffodil bulbs late. They came up late. Now they will bloom... late, but hopefully they will bloom. It's a good thing too.. it is cold here.. there too?
Posted by: srp | April 15, 2009 11:52 PM
It's very fun to wake up to comments. When I started Denver Cereal, I woke up at the time the posts went up - every day for about a month. Exciting - thrilling - and fun!
I hope the check arrives.
Posted by: On a limb with Claudia | April 16, 2009 12:02 AM
People keep telling me that getting on Facebook would be good for my blog. I'm not so sure.
Posted by: Alice Audrey | April 16, 2009 12:20 AM
I know what you mean about Facebook, isn't it addicting!!! I love playing petpupz!
Thursday 13
Posted by: Willa | April 16, 2009 12:37 AM
Well, you can wake up to yet another comment!
Evolution isn't miraculous, that's the whole point! It's science.
Posted by: Nicholas | April 16, 2009 3:06 AM
LOL to #3! I think that makes me the most promiscuous person on the internet then! I've got about 5 blogs that I regularly blog on, and more that I blog in only occasionally, and a Twitter account, a Facebook account, a Friendster account, etc... =P
Posted by: Betty | April 16, 2009 3:27 AM
I felt I was two-timing my blog when I first went to Twitter, but now I've intermingled them and they're in a happy relationship :-)
Posted by: Anthony North | April 16, 2009 4:07 AM
your thursdays are often my favorites. oh, the photo album was such a nice journey through your life - thanks so much for sharing. don't you just love facebook?! i am enjoying it so much - quick little 2-3 liners keeping people updated. and linking and joining groups and playing with a quiz here and there - just plain old fun!
Posted by: sky | April 16, 2009 5:57 AM
I have a facebook account but never set anything up yet. And speaking of flower power---
My 13 is posted....all flowers in our yard, done in a collage for you. Drop by if you can find time. Happy Thursday.
Posted by: Hootin' Anni | April 16, 2009 7:08 AM
Great post!
Very thoughtful.
Posted by: Harriet | April 16, 2009 8:46 AM
I really love the quote in #10---spring being "a perpetual astonishment." So lovely...and so true.
Posted by: Beth | April 16, 2009 9:51 AM
I'm totally with you on #13...but I didn't get a chance to do it last night! Or yet this morning, for that matter LOL!
Posted by: Janet | April 16, 2009 9:51 AM
oh, I saw that at Blogations. You have so much going on.
I know what you mean about Facebook. There's room for both tho. I haven't seen your pics up there. I'll go see.
Unless your blog's a hub that people chat at (unlike any of mine) Facebook's more likely to get interaction from saying something.
Yeah, #13, me too. It's like money growing interest in the bank, back when that sort of thing happened. ;)
#5 our locals are so different. Everyone (ahem, except for some members of our federal government that just hit the press) take evolution as proven as not contentious. So many people around me speak multiple languages too. Funny what bubbles of norms we fall into.
Guess I'll join your club, because now my *dad* has got shingles.
Posted by: Pearl | April 16, 2009 11:35 AM
I've been avoiding #4, but suspect it's only a matter of time... Off to read your link in #11.
Posted by: All Rileyed Up | April 16, 2009 2:05 PM
Now you know why I don't have a FB account - it is too addictive. Like your 13 this week. I'll have to check out Josh's blog...
Posted by: Sara | April 16, 2009 3:09 PM
Nice list! Love the quote, and I agree with you on that last one.
Happy TT!
Posted by: kandyblossom | April 16, 2009 4:36 PM
A very wise Presbyterian minister in the area once told me, when I was quite young, too, saying evolution couldn't be was putting limits on God. And of course, there should be no limits on God. Good to hear about more bloggers!
Posted by: Leslie | April 16, 2009 4:44 PM
I was signed on for Facebook for nearly a year before I started really using it. Sometimes I link people over here. I don't tend to play the tagging games.
Posted by: colleen | April 16, 2009 5:49 PM
I finally broke up with MySpace over Facebook. Now Facebook is looking askance at Twitter. *grin*
Happy TT
~X
Posted by: Xakara | April 16, 2009 8:15 PM
Oh I love to wake up to Comments too! T13 is a guarantee for that every week.
We're planning a trip south this fall to visit some family - I'm hoping we'll get to swing by Asheville - your tales of your son always make me pine for that beautiful town.
Posted by: Bumbles | April 16, 2009 10:18 PM
It feels as if more and more people are going over to Facebook and Twitter and the Blog traffic seems slim these days....!
I was on Facebook, by default, almost two years ago, and just didnt understand what it was all about and felt I had enough to contend with---with my blog...So, I opted out, after about 8 months or so. And now it seems like more and more people are going over there, and somewhat abandoning their blogs. Something must have changed for the better about it since I left...! It was all silliness back then.
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | April 17, 2009 3:26 AM
I couldn't stop making flowers. I love that site and I love YOU! xo
Posted by: Sherry | April 17, 2009 7:55 AM
Kaylee couldn't stop either she made a ton of them yesterday when I was there babysitting Bryce.
Posted by: colleen | April 17, 2009 9:16 AM
We also are waiting for a check...tax refund. I just love it when I pay the government too much and they get to use my money! Having said that I am NOT a tax day protester. I pay my taxes proudly.
Posted by: Tabor | April 17, 2009 9:56 AM
#5 and #13 me exactly . I live by PBS. Just cannot get enough.also that is someone else's child. He cannot be that big !!!!!!
Posted by: sandy | April 18, 2009 6:49 AM
I really enjoyed reading about Josh's kiln building endeavors. I wish I could be there to be a part of it! Did you ever learn anything about what happens to purple shells when they are fired?
Posted by: Jeff | April 18, 2009 9:46 PM
I'll make sure to ask Josh about the shells next time I talk to him.
Posted by: colleen | April 18, 2009 10:22 PM
Hi Colleen, it has been a while since I've checked in but I'm glad I did. Love your blog as usual :) Have a great day!
Posted by: April | April 19, 2009 10:55 AM