Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Who says.
. Hey Ya'll.
All together now.
Welcome to 12dots and a blot.
This is a writer's blog.
Fact and fiction co-exist here.
If you don't know which is which?
Don't ASSume.
Ask.
For a very long time I was tethered to a place and time. It was a pretty bumpy ride but I did it for love and for my son.
Now, I'm not to keen on being to tethered to much of anything new.
Not saying that I won't ever again but just not right now.
For someone who loves to travel and see new things to be in one place is a great big effort. When they find a place or time to jump into the new or look at the old a new way? Well- if it's legal, moral, and doesn't harm the ones you love or yourself?
Maybe that's a good time to jump a bit.
Dance a little.
eh?
I don't want to grow old with no sailing stories of my own to tell.
So I've lately been looking at folks who say they have a purchase on what I do and say. It's been an interesting experience.
I'm taking a bit of time for me.
Be happy.
Be kind.
Be free.
Hugs,
Author Ann
Note to readers and to Blogspot. If I don't write on this blog for a bit?
This blog is active not abandoned. Might be back today? Might not be back for days?
Who knows?
If something comes up and I feel the need to write about it?
I'll write about it here. :D
Now then, I have things to tend to.
Hugs and love. .
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
..
Be. Here. Now
In this moment.
Not in the future time.
Or in the past.
But now.
Right now.
No. I don't care if it sounds willful.
i only care that it sounds.
That it makes the sounds that you will understand the urgency of the message.
Be
here
now.
I can hardly see the words on the page and even the subconscious in my fingertips is trying to shout the words.
I'm tired of "maybe's" and "some days".
NOW.
.
."...I have to do this now.
Now before I get to old.
Now.
Before years of self doubt coil around my heart like some evil primordial snake. It squeezes the last bit of self and breath I have left. I'm here in the dark. In my bed with the sound of someone next to me. Snoring. Why I'm here I don't know. He's nice enough. He doesn't beat me and if I'm sick or hungry or both he'll at least notice if I'm alive. But that life he recognizes, the one where I'm breathing in the biological sense? At this moment it doesn't feel very much like being alive does. If I don't get up out of this bed and do something quick my body might be alive but my spirit ,maybe lost...."
From Life a Work in Progress by c anne ford
all rights reserved by the author.
"... The air here is so hot and muggy that you drink it. Nothing is moving but the cars that go one by one through the gate and out of the cemetery. It was the last funeral she'd go to. She'd promised herself that. There's be no more death that she'd recognize...."
From Life a Work in Progress by c anne ford
"...
In 30 years there are
--- days
--- seconds.
On day 4000, she'd eaten a baloney sandwich and drunk 2 bottles of pop.
By day 4500, she'd drunk another 200 bottles of pop and a bottle or two of tequila.
By day 5000, she'd drunk enough to convince herself that jumping off Chimney Rock was a good life decision.
By day 6000, the folks in rehab told her that maybe- just maybe- she'd have the use of her legs but there'd always be something wrong with her left arm.
By day 6500?
She'd decided enough was enough.
All they found at the bridge was a note and a half empty root beer.
"Sorry for the littering." she'd written, "but it just seemed trivial. I think you'll understand."
...'
Now before I get to old.
Now.
Before years of self doubt coil around my heart like some evil primordial snake. It squeezes the last bit of self and breath I have left. I'm here in the dark. In my bed with the sound of someone next to me. Snoring. Why I'm here I don't know. He's nice enough. He doesn't beat me and if I'm sick or hungry or both he'll at least notice if I'm alive. But that life he recognizes, the one where I'm breathing in the biological sense? At this moment it doesn't feel very much like being alive does. If I don't get up out of this bed and do something quick my body might be alive but my spirit ,maybe lost...."
From Life a Work in Progress by c anne ford
all rights reserved by the author.
"... The air here is so hot and muggy that you drink it. Nothing is moving but the cars that go one by one through the gate and out of the cemetery. It was the last funeral she'd go to. She'd promised herself that. There's be no more death that she'd recognize...."
From Life a Work in Progress by c anne ford
"...
In 30 years there are
--- days
--- seconds.
On day 4000, she'd eaten a baloney sandwich and drunk 2 bottles of pop.
By day 4500, she'd drunk another 200 bottles of pop and a bottle or two of tequila.
By day 5000, she'd drunk enough to convince herself that jumping off Chimney Rock was a good life decision.
By day 6000, the folks in rehab told her that maybe- just maybe- she'd have the use of her legs but there'd always be something wrong with her left arm.
By day 6500?
She'd decided enough was enough.
All they found at the bridge was a note and a half empty root beer.
"Sorry for the littering." she'd written, "but it just seemed trivial. I think you'll understand."
...'
,
Wal-Mart encourages managers to buy "local" and local produce.
Think global.
Act local.
Summer produce is still available and Fall apples and pumpkins will soon be here.
Anyone remember the story about old apple orchards that were being bought and relocated?
Buy local.
.
This is a good idea. I for one would love to buy milk from the local dairy but can't because they've for the most part been shut down. Alot of that land is now for sale to grow houses.
Buy local?
I'm trying to.
.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
.
Quote:
"You know, it's funny hearing the head of the Chinese banking system demand America alter it's financial policies
just cause he said so.
After all, it was America who modernised (and I guess got him his job) in the first place.
Here in the South we call that one of three things.
The kindest is "uppidty".
The next kindest is "arrogant".
But?
What we're thinking is the third thing,
"That's just plain stupid."
Only we're not so "uppidiy" and "arrogant" to say so.
At least not to your face."
Unquote.
.
Before you read the next post, please take care to read this:
For the record,
I DO NOT hate people from China. There are really nice people who are from and still live in China. They haven't had it easy. I know that.
However -
I am not too keen on their govermental policies, That's not the same as disliking people from China.
To tell the truth I'm glad that the citizens of China are finally getting a living wage after years and years of not.
Alot of that economic recovery came from American help. Seems a bit unfriendly to be demanding this and that after all that help.
Just sayin
For the record,
I DO NOT hate people from China. There are really nice people who are from and still live in China. They haven't had it easy. I know that.
However -
I am not too keen on their govermental policies, That's not the same as disliking people from China.
To tell the truth I'm glad that the citizens of China are finally getting a living wage after years and years of not.
Alot of that economic recovery came from American help. Seems a bit unfriendly to be demanding this and that after all that help.
Just sayin
.
(Song What's Going On by Marvin Gaye)
"This is my Zen garden. All who are weary? Come for peace here." c anne ford
hmmm
I told myself, "Self, stay out of politics. It's a jungle out there. But..."
A history lesson.
Go back and read the financial news. Go back to the 70's and Richard Nixon when the first George Bush was head of (I think) the CIA. Start there and read through the following decades, yes decades, about the push to modernize China. Pay attention to the news where the US redid China's stock exchange, insurance commissions, banking commisions, and then look up civil rights violations by China before the Olympics and just in general. Pay attention to what you're reading and then ask your self about recent comments from China concerning US debt.
Then?
Go get a map.
A world map.
Look at where America is and where China is.
Good.
Then?
Look south to South and Central America.
And look at North and South America with people who could use a job. Look at Europe too. Ireland, Portugal, Greece... Look at the world and put things in to perspective. This isn't the first time the world has seen trouble. It's also not the first time that countries have worked together to handle an economic crisis.
Make no mistake here. I'm a thinking that there is some muscle flexing going on but I know that we were a nation for doing things and making things for ourselves.
Pick a paper and look at history. Look at the folks who've been watching their manufacturing jobs leave the country. We've lost textiles and steel. Now think of this, we are still a country rich in natural reasources and unlike a certain other country we've learned how to make things without poluting our environment.
There are times that call for clear thinking and taking up for yourself. It's not just our country. Hello Canada. Hello countries in Central and South America.
We can do it for ourselves.
This song says "hello" to the people of America who've manufacture things and did it well long before goods ever had the words, "Made in China".
(Incase the embed is disabled song 40 Hour Week by Alabama official vid)
Now I'm not going to suggest you throw out those things with "Made in China" on it but maybe it's time that we had a conversation with the WalMart folks and asked them to bring back the "Made in America" campaign.
And maybe the unions can help.
My grandfather raised children during the Great Depression in America. We don't want that but I think that we can get past it. From Craigs List to Ebay and yes to WalMart. The lessons of the Great Depression was about those places who survived by pulling together. They were inventive. The bartered (think Craig's List. Are you getting me? They fed people that didn't have. I hear it's a global economy now but it was then too. Time to band together.
Then?
Go look at the map and at the news and think to yourself, "Who's the country who's been fighting (and going into debt) in Afganistan and Iraq. Anyone see China?"
My heart felt prayers for the family members of the troops who died in Iraq. Hugs.
I'm sorry that my blog can seem frivolous. I've been staying away from politics because lets face it, the troubles in this world, the sorrow, can be overwhelming. Sometime you need a place of quiet.
I'm not being callous. My state like many others have had real sadness due to loss in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
(His Eyes Are On The Sparrow cover my Marvin Gay - Incase the embed is disabled)
I hope that this comment on the current political enviroment won't get me banned but I come from the Deep South. While there are good times here? There've been bad too.
It's hear that I've learned that while there are times to be quiet? There's time you should say something too.
I am proud to be American.
Author Ann
(incase the songs are pulled Arron Tippin song You've Got To Stand For Something)
.
(Song What's Going On by Marvin Gaye)
"This is my Zen garden. All who are weary? Come for peace here." c anne ford
hmmm
I told myself, "Self, stay out of politics. It's a jungle out there. But..."
A history lesson.
Go back and read the financial news. Go back to the 70's and Richard Nixon when the first George Bush was head of (I think) the CIA. Start there and read through the following decades, yes decades, about the push to modernize China. Pay attention to the news where the US redid China's stock exchange, insurance commissions, banking commisions, and then look up civil rights violations by China before the Olympics and just in general. Pay attention to what you're reading and then ask your self about recent comments from China concerning US debt.
Then?
Go get a map.
A world map.
Look at where America is and where China is.
Good.
Then?
Look south to South and Central America.
And look at North and South America with people who could use a job. Look at Europe too. Ireland, Portugal, Greece... Look at the world and put things in to perspective. This isn't the first time the world has seen trouble. It's also not the first time that countries have worked together to handle an economic crisis.
Make no mistake here. I'm a thinking that there is some muscle flexing going on but I know that we were a nation for doing things and making things for ourselves.
Pick a paper and look at history. Look at the folks who've been watching their manufacturing jobs leave the country. We've lost textiles and steel. Now think of this, we are still a country rich in natural reasources and unlike a certain other country we've learned how to make things without poluting our environment.
There are times that call for clear thinking and taking up for yourself. It's not just our country. Hello Canada. Hello countries in Central and South America.
We can do it for ourselves.
This song says "hello" to the people of America who've manufacture things and did it well long before goods ever had the words, "Made in China".
(Incase the embed is disabled song 40 Hour Week by Alabama official vid)
Now I'm not going to suggest you throw out those things with "Made in China" on it but maybe it's time that we had a conversation with the WalMart folks and asked them to bring back the "Made in America" campaign.
And maybe the unions can help.
My grandfather raised children during the Great Depression in America. We don't want that but I think that we can get past it. From Craigs List to Ebay and yes to WalMart. The lessons of the Great Depression was about those places who survived by pulling together. They were inventive. The bartered (think Craig's List. Are you getting me? They fed people that didn't have. I hear it's a global economy now but it was then too. Time to band together.
Then?
Go look at the map and at the news and think to yourself, "Who's the country who's been fighting (and going into debt) in Afganistan and Iraq. Anyone see China?"
My heart felt prayers for the family members of the troops who died in Iraq. Hugs.
I'm sorry that my blog can seem frivolous. I've been staying away from politics because lets face it, the troubles in this world, the sorrow, can be overwhelming. Sometime you need a place of quiet.
I'm not being callous. My state like many others have had real sadness due to loss in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
(His Eyes Are On The Sparrow cover my Marvin Gay - Incase the embed is disabled)
I hope that this comment on the current political enviroment won't get me banned but I come from the Deep South. While there are good times here? There've been bad too.
It's hear that I've learned that while there are times to be quiet? There's time you should say something too.
I am proud to be American.
Author Ann
(incase the songs are pulled Arron Tippin song You've Got To Stand For Something)
.
.
I've been watching last week's LLS in Paris.
More important? I've been reading the reviews and the comments.
And you know what?
I think that Craig Ferguson has some of the most loyal fans on the planet. Sure they're a bit nutty when it comes to CF but the Robot Skeletan Army (RSA) rides high on life and funny.
Ride on fans of LLSwTv'sCF.
Hugs!
.
I've been watching last week's LLS in Paris.
More important? I've been reading the reviews and the comments.
And you know what?
I think that Craig Ferguson has some of the most loyal fans on the planet. Sure they're a bit nutty when it comes to CF but the Robot Skeletan Army (RSA) rides high on life and funny.
Ride on fans of LLSwTv'sCF.
Hugs!
.
Happy birthday, Lucy....
.
Note: The video above is Big and Rich's official video for the song Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy.
Just in case someone decides to void it?
It's worth going to see on Youtube.
Get the official video.
Accept no substitutes.
:)
KOTHT LWTU KI PT Q HTQG BT, PLK N OQU NK
WLHJNZQGGA HTBIXTU.
- FTKTH WTGGTHW
And the point of all this?
What happens when an individual becomes an icon?
To celebrate Lucille Ball's 100th birthday people are dressing up like her and going to Buffalo NY to celebrate.
Just imagine.
I would want to keep the right to be unpredictable and accepted for it.
At the same time?
I would want to be lauded for my predictability.
No cultural distalate.
.
"Don't know a thing about broncing bucks but..."
Oh hang on. I do have some idea of being bucked off a horse having been thrown off a horse. (real one)
,
.
And the point of all this?
What happens when an individual becomes an icon?
To celebrate Lucille Ball's 100th birthday people are dressing up like her and going to Buffalo NY to celebrate.
Just imagine.
I would want to keep the right to be unpredictable and accepted for it.
At the same time?
I would want to be lauded for my predictability.
No cultural distalate.
.
"Don't know a thing about broncing bucks but..."
Oh hang on. I do have some idea of being bucked off a horse having been thrown off a horse. (real one)
,
.
Friday, August 5, 2011
.
"...I turn on the car radio and there's this ad for a restaurant. The owners were celebrating their anniversary, 9 years today, and offering everyone who came to eat free cake. They wanted to share their wedded bliss and I guess get everyone in listening distance to think good thoughts about their life choices. Then, in what was really interesting programming, the radio station played the song "Chasing Cars". LOL, yeah, that was my reaction too. WTF. The song is all kinds of emo and, after hearing the very jolly commercial about marital bliss and fried chicken, the song just jarred me awake.
And it got me thinking about the oxymoron - "marital bliss".
You see personally I think that husbands and wives should get things like hazard and longevity pay if the marriage lasts 9 years. They should also get separate vacations if they so choose. For a week, of their choice, they should get to go somewhere with their best friend. Now if that best friend is also their spouse? Great. But for most folks the day end and day out just wears them down. Add kids and the economy and it gets worse. You need a vacation from these people so that you don't yell at them the other 358 days out of the year. And you should take your best friend so that you don't have to eat and drink alone if you don't want to. If you make it past 25 years? You should get a month off. Somewhere far from the person who on average is okay but alot of times just pizzes you off.
Bonus if you've raised kids or lost your job(s) or bought/sold a house or dealt with an illness.
I'm sorry but that anniversary night dinner or the anniversary weekend is like a drop of water to a person starving for drink (or a conversation). It just gets your hopes up and then makes you cry for the lacking of it..
"Marital Bliss"
There's just no way that everyday is bliss in marriage unless you just ignore, give in, or take really good drugs. Or you're lucky. Bliss is that feeling of euphoria that you get as a result of being exposed to something that is purely pleasant. Marriage might be two people sticking it out but it's not bliss. Definitely an oxymoron..."
*from Life. A Work In Progress by c anne ford
all rights reserved by the author
To borrow from Benjamin Franklin, if that sun is rising or setting will depend on the determination and understanding of the people involved...
I was listening to that song, Chasing Cars yesterday and it got me to thinking about how it's possible for two people to live together for a long time and not eventually hate each other. The song sounds like a long time where the two folks don't want to end it but they've had it. Like the last mile of some marathon.
I believe in love with eyes open - and sometimes shut.
"...If I could just hold you for this one second. Look to my right or left while I sit here and ponder what to do next and there you'd be. If I could just - if I could just . I would have that feeling that I had from the moment I saw you and it would be okay. There's so much to tell you. It's that feeling when your feet hit the dock after a long while traveling. You're full of stories of the trip but more you're near bursting with the desire to sit there with the someone of your heart and tell them what's happened.. But you aren't here and I can't tell you or ask you what you think.
"Is that love?" I ask.
Then for a bit I can "see" you and "hear" you in my mind's eye. You're there and you tell me what you think. We were together so long that I could always tell what you thought. It was never boring to me this predictability. It was a comfort in a world that had long sense gone crazy with the heat. No matter what happened, I knew that you'd be there and I say to you, "Well here's the day." and you'd sit there listening. Then you'd ask me what I thought I should do or not do and I'd tell you. Then you'd tell me. Then we'd sit there in the kitchen table and not say much until the whistle went off and you got up to get it.
I was never one for the excitement of back and forth debate. Just the quiet and you confidence that I could handle my own...."
from
Life. A Work in Progress
by C anne Ford
all rights reserved by the author.
This is a long post.
WB will be here soon. He's going to bush hog some. We had to wait a bit and now it's like hay. Pup's going to help him not because he needs the help but because Pup needs to help. I hope that makes sense. I've got laundry to wash. The animals are already fed and watered. I think that we'll eat chicken and then maybe watch a movie. Maybe get some ice cream.
I'm not so much sad as a bit nostalgic. It's overcast and the prediction is for rain. That's why WB is going to bush hog this afternoon instead of tomorrow. "Gotta' make hay..." you know.
Since the last bit of this is more like a letter than a blog post, I'll sign off as if this was a letter to you, Gentle Reader.
Kind thoughts and good happy to you. Hello and hugs to the family.
Ann
.
.
"...I turn on the car radio and there's this ad for a restaurant. The owners were celebrating their anniversary, 9 years today, and offering everyone who came to eat free cake. They wanted to share their wedded bliss and I guess get everyone in listening distance to think good thoughts about their life choices. Then, in what was really interesting programming, the radio station played the song "Chasing Cars". LOL, yeah, that was my reaction too. WTF. The song is all kinds of emo and, after hearing the very jolly commercial about marital bliss and fried chicken, the song just jarred me awake.
And it got me thinking about the oxymoron - "marital bliss".
You see personally I think that husbands and wives should get things like hazard and longevity pay if the marriage lasts 9 years. They should also get separate vacations if they so choose. For a week, of their choice, they should get to go somewhere with their best friend. Now if that best friend is also their spouse? Great. But for most folks the day end and day out just wears them down. Add kids and the economy and it gets worse. You need a vacation from these people so that you don't yell at them the other 358 days out of the year. And you should take your best friend so that you don't have to eat and drink alone if you don't want to. If you make it past 25 years? You should get a month off. Somewhere far from the person who on average is okay but alot of times just pizzes you off.
Bonus if you've raised kids or lost your job(s) or bought/sold a house or dealt with an illness.
I'm sorry but that anniversary night dinner or the anniversary weekend is like a drop of water to a person starving for drink (or a conversation). It just gets your hopes up and then makes you cry for the lacking of it..
"Marital Bliss"
There's just no way that everyday is bliss in marriage unless you just ignore, give in, or take really good drugs. Or you're lucky. Bliss is that feeling of euphoria that you get as a result of being exposed to something that is purely pleasant. Marriage might be two people sticking it out but it's not bliss. Definitely an oxymoron..."
*from Life. A Work In Progress by c anne ford
all rights reserved by the author
To borrow from Benjamin Franklin, if that sun is rising or setting will depend on the determination and understanding of the people involved...
I was listening to that song, Chasing Cars yesterday and it got me to thinking about how it's possible for two people to live together for a long time and not eventually hate each other. The song sounds like a long time where the two folks don't want to end it but they've had it. Like the last mile of some marathon.
I believe in love with eyes open - and sometimes shut.
"...If I could just hold you for this one second. Look to my right or left while I sit here and ponder what to do next and there you'd be. If I could just - if I could just . I would have that feeling that I had from the moment I saw you and it would be okay. There's so much to tell you. It's that feeling when your feet hit the dock after a long while traveling. You're full of stories of the trip but more you're near bursting with the desire to sit there with the someone of your heart and tell them what's happened.. But you aren't here and I can't tell you or ask you what you think.
"Is that love?" I ask.
Then for a bit I can "see" you and "hear" you in my mind's eye. You're there and you tell me what you think. We were together so long that I could always tell what you thought. It was never boring to me this predictability. It was a comfort in a world that had long sense gone crazy with the heat. No matter what happened, I knew that you'd be there and I say to you, "Well here's the day." and you'd sit there listening. Then you'd ask me what I thought I should do or not do and I'd tell you. Then you'd tell me. Then we'd sit there in the kitchen table and not say much until the whistle went off and you got up to get it.
I was never one for the excitement of back and forth debate. Just the quiet and you confidence that I could handle my own...."
from
Life. A Work in Progress
by C anne Ford
all rights reserved by the author.
This is a long post.
WB will be here soon. He's going to bush hog some. We had to wait a bit and now it's like hay. Pup's going to help him not because he needs the help but because Pup needs to help. I hope that makes sense. I've got laundry to wash. The animals are already fed and watered. I think that we'll eat chicken and then maybe watch a movie. Maybe get some ice cream.
I'm not so much sad as a bit nostalgic. It's overcast and the prediction is for rain. That's why WB is going to bush hog this afternoon instead of tomorrow. "Gotta' make hay..." you know.
Since the last bit of this is more like a letter than a blog post, I'll sign off as if this was a letter to you, Gentle Reader.
Kind thoughts and good happy to you. Hello and hugs to the family.
Ann
.
.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Robert Palmer vs Tom Jones vid style
Art Of Noise feat. Tom Jones - Kiss by sminer65
So, okay, maybe not but they're both good :)
Note went back to try and find the Power Station cover of the T Rex song Bang a Gong.
Nada.
You have to go find it on Youtube. Get the offical video not the remix otherwise you'll get a "hybrid video" of Bang a Gong and Duran Duran. Not the same.
Anyone miss the days of friendly Youtube? (tiny voice here saying "I do.")
Hang on is that Robert Palmer?
BRB
Okay
try this
BRL
.
Art Of Noise feat. Tom Jones - Kiss by sminer65
So, okay, maybe not but they're both good :)
Note went back to try and find the Power Station cover of the T Rex song Bang a Gong.
Nada.
You have to go find it on Youtube. Get the offical video not the remix otherwise you'll get a "hybrid video" of Bang a Gong and Duran Duran. Not the same.
Anyone miss the days of friendly Youtube? (tiny voice here saying "I do.")
Hang on is that Robert Palmer?
BRB
Okay
try this
BRL
.
.
Life's little playlist
Pee? Me to. Same for the dogs.
Gotta go. BBL''
Playlist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvDPezXTzlI Insert this vid Lyle Lovett "Here I am"
(until I can find one where the embed isn't disabled I love the vid)
(LOL 12 dots... writer's blog... fact and fiction co exist... don't ASSume ... Ask < for my mom who would be wondering)
:D
Carrot juice. Bleck. I'm an omnivore. Sure I eat veggies but lordy sometimes only a cheeseburger will do.
.
.
Life's little playlist
Pee? Me to. Same for the dogs.
Gotta go. BBL''
Playlist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvDPezXTzlI Insert this vid Lyle Lovett "Here I am"
(until I can find one where the embed isn't disabled I love the vid)
(LOL 12 dots... writer's blog... fact and fiction co exist... don't ASSume ... Ask < for my mom who would be wondering)
:D
Carrot juice. Bleck. I'm an omnivore. Sure I eat veggies but lordy sometimes only a cheeseburger will do.
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