tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post2596790150818406450..comments2023-09-01T04:29:11.256-04:00Comments on Suburban Soliloquy: Friday Night Frolic — Fifty is Nifty?Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-21335294545088947852012-01-27T08:52:45.913-05:002012-01-27T08:52:45.913-05:00Michael- So glad you're checking out the Froli...Michael- So glad you're checking out the Frolics. I'm so often inspired by music that I can't help keep a regular column that features the sounds that I love, along with whatever writing they may spark.<br />Very kind of you to look back at this one. And if you like bluegrass/roots/folk music (which is what I lean toward), there's a pretty significant collection of the same under the Frolics. :)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-82251543885484348192012-01-27T02:05:46.904-05:002012-01-27T02:05:46.904-05:00Love this post and The Friday Night Frolics! One o...Love this post and The Friday Night Frolics! One of the most fascinating collections of music I've ever seen! :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16539850495318868267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-57876064378550638642011-11-05T14:11:19.175-04:002011-11-05T14:11:19.175-04:00Marylinn- I feel the same way about "Four Str...Marylinn- I feel the same way about "Four Strong Winds." I remember playing that song over and over again. And very much so at one particular time in my life...<br /><br />"It keeps getting better," makes me smile, Marylinn. And reading Bray Bradbury by flashlight as forteller of greatness?! Well, does it take 50+ years for that to kick in?<br /><br />This year my daughter will be reading Bradbury's <em>Something Wicked This Way Comes</em> with her English class, and I'm so excited for her. I told her we should have our own little Bradbury book club (I still have my old copy) and she just rolled her eyes (yeah, the 12 year-old eye roll). She's never read Bradbury and is convinced she won't like the story. This, from a girl who likes scary stories and dystopian novels. (Ha! She has no idea what she's in for! ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-44645576511851490542011-11-01T11:35:35.405-04:002011-11-01T11:35:35.405-04:00"Four Strong Winds," be still my heart. ..."Four Strong Winds," be still my heart. Hah, being 16 years farther down the road, Neil Young, or the original Ian and Sylvia, have such resonance. And doesn't he sound unchanged, great as ever.<br /><br />Here is what I think: it keeps getting better. At some point we realize that much of what we thought we knew is part of the illusion (which is very different than the mystery). You have a head start, having paid attention all along, having saved the letters, having thought the questions. Reading Ray Bradbury by flashlight is, yet not widely know to be, a foretelling of greatness. Very belated birthday wishes. The path narrows but our hearts and minds open. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-66893412097361549632011-10-26T15:53:41.659-04:002011-10-26T15:53:41.659-04:00SF- So nice to hear from you! I've been wonder...SF- So nice to hear from you! I've been wondering when you'll be posting your next London postcard/photo??<br /><br />And Vonnegut! Please let me know which book you're reading and how you're liking it. i've never read a Vonnegut story I didn't like. <br /><br />Thank you for the birthday wishes. :)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-74684066431560765812011-10-25T17:05:33.014-04:002011-10-25T17:05:33.014-04:00A belated Happy Birthday Jayne!
Love the poem. Wh...A belated Happy Birthday Jayne!<br /><br />Love the poem. What a beautiful gift to receive. <br /><br /><br />p.s I thought I should tell you that I bought my first ever Kurt Vonnegut book!Sensible Footwearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01352359349242924766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-27017808363585779432011-10-25T08:21:39.559-04:002011-10-25T08:21:39.559-04:00Munk- You're absolutely right. Fifty is a bles...Munk- You're absolutely right. Fifty is a blessing, indeed. I'm still here! Hooray! :)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-48551515448552589272011-10-25T08:20:22.106-04:002011-10-25T08:20:22.106-04:00Beer- Oh yes, drifty it is!
There's always a ...Beer- Oh yes, drifty it is! <br />There's always a blanket at the ready for someone so unsteady<br />as I. At 50. <br />(Talk of poems that are not heady!)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-30289547227137001642011-10-25T08:17:10.948-04:002011-10-25T08:17:10.948-04:00DB- It's good to mange language now and then. ...DB- It's good to mange language now and then. ;)<br />Thanks for the belated birthday wishes. I'm belated with just about everything so no worries!Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-7084722083599252962011-10-25T08:15:13.750-04:002011-10-25T08:15:13.750-04:00JES- Ha! Those dang scales have always been a cons...JES- Ha! Those dang scales have always been a constant source of frustration for me. I do believe in the mantra, though, <em>you can have it all, just not all at once.</em> I think that quote is attributed to Oprah - ha! - who probably <em>can</em> and does have all of it at once! <br /><br />In my little developing mind, Neil Young <em>was</em> Mr. Soul. That song, his look, hooked me from the moment I first heard him sing it (much to my parent's chagrin)--so I simply had to include that song.<br /><br />So glad you mentioned the introduction to Poetry 180--I couldn't agree more with Collins--high school is where a poem goes to die! My son was introduced to poetry as part of his 8th grade curriculum last year - but rather than analyzing poems to death, the kids immediately began assembling fractured thoughts on paper and later submitted their poems directly to publications. My son's poem was selected for an anthology of poems by high school students and he now can see his poem in print. That's a pretty darn cool way of getting kids excited about poetry!<br /><br />And I'm still working on creating my very own petal-covered path. Every once in a while I stumble over a jagged stone but I'm learning to kick those aside without too much angst. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-24025513213488330872011-10-24T11:55:59.272-04:002011-10-24T11:55:59.272-04:00Fifty is a blessing.Fifty is a blessing.Munkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04921320770712443773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-45586321942373335782011-10-24T11:27:40.175-04:002011-10-24T11:27:40.175-04:00A happy belated birthday to someone who I would NO...A happy belated birthday to someone who I would NOT have guessed was fifty. But now that you're older, get a blanket, because it might be drifty.A Beer for the Showerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17029139745335325356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-52979269753225177982011-10-24T09:31:14.157-04:002011-10-24T09:31:14.157-04:00A very happy belated birthday, Jayne. Cause I be ...A very happy belated birthday, Jayne. Cause I be late saying it. <br />Also, I just mangled the English language.Danger Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597851282224101748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-36880386120270804522011-10-24T06:32:36.661-04:002011-10-24T06:32:36.661-04:00*laughing at Common Man's comment -- and your ...<em>*laughing at Common Man's comment -- and your rejoinder*</em><br /><br />Dunno about you, but most of the Libras I know have certainly grown up to fit the profile: tortured by imbalance throughout their younger decades, they come to accept that they can't balance everything at one time... but they can do so serially, in small increments, settling sanely for the net overall effect rather than requiring balance in every, single, step. An inspiring thing to watch and aspire to. Your place here seems to be an expression of that for you, and I suspect that's one reason why you've developed a following. Middle age -- no matter where you put the pushpin -- can be great like that. :)<br /><br />Thank you so much for including the "Mr. Soul" clip. People's awareness of "For What It's Worth" <em>so</em> overwhelms their awareness of Buffalo Springfield's output that you'd think they produced only one song ever worth re-hearing. (But dang -- they all look like such babies in that vid!)<br /><br />Very nice reading of "Tour." You're right: about all we can say is that flower petals are on the ground. How and when they got there, relative to the route we're taking -- pretty much immaterial. (Another possible way the path might have so magically appeared: we created it ourselves, in walking through a ground cover of petals... and then turned around and looked back, forgetting how we got here.)<br /><br />Throughout Collins's introduction you so handily linked to, while he stresses clarity, I like how he never says he doesn't want poems to lead to conversation -- just that using them SOLELY as springboards for classroom discussion is a good way to kill them. Sometimes "significant" birthday milestones work like that: "It's time for me to take stock, re-appraise yadayada." It's so great to find you frolicking in response to your own! (At least to balance out that mild early-morning panic attack. :))<br /><br /><em>*still laughing*</em>JEShttp://johnesimpson.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-77289421323718501752011-10-23T16:08:17.812-04:002011-10-23T16:08:17.812-04:00Dan- darling... So nifty is a cleaning product--no...Dan- darling... So nifty is a cleaning product--<em>now</em> it makes sense! In that case, yes, 50 is very nifty, all right.<br /><br />Thanks for the <em>groovy</em> wishes. (I watched that show faithfully, you know. Friday night was a Brady Bunch/Partridge Family festival. Popcorn and soda permitted. It was <em>the</em> grooviest night for my siblings and I.) ;)<br />xoJaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-59731202701444227262011-10-23T16:03:17.374-04:002011-10-23T16:03:17.374-04:00Dicky- Oh, I loved forty! Forty felt very, um, leg...Dicky- Oh, I loved forty! Forty felt very, um, legitimate. Although at the time, I was still muddling through some very foggy days as a sleep deprived mother of toddlers. <br /><br />Forty is wonderful. Enjoy! Oh, and the picture is actually that of a card (one of several) my daughter made for me. And yes, it's supposed to be funny! (Well, I thought it was, anyway.) :)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-88125781877786676542011-10-23T15:59:14.237-04:002011-10-23T15:59:14.237-04:00Billy- So very, ugh, nice, eh?! Thanks, BP! :DBilly- So very, ugh, nice, eh?! Thanks, BP! :DJaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-42568858362645329102011-10-23T15:54:30.528-04:002011-10-23T15:54:30.528-04:00Loree- Brings back great memories for me, too. Tha...Loree- Brings back great memories for me, too. Thanks for the wishes. <br /><br />Yes, the <em>new</em> forty. I like that outlook. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-2095540078421688602011-10-23T15:53:08.056-04:002011-10-23T15:53:08.056-04:00Sabine- So good to see you here! I should probably...Sabine- So good to see you here! I should probably resurrect my bike and start peddling miles like you--really get the decade rolling. ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-34757104557977456682011-10-23T15:51:13.266-04:002011-10-23T15:51:13.266-04:00Leonora- Ha! You know I'm dusting off the sewi...Leonora- Ha! You know I'm dusting off the sewing machine again to help my daughter with her Halloween costume---maybe I should whip up a cape while I'm at it? Paste an enormous B on it and flash my wrinkles and, Yes!, getaway with anything! Oh, maybe I'll even take to the streets for a trick-or-treat myself! ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-85575980298465106592011-10-23T15:48:08.511-04:002011-10-23T15:48:08.511-04:00Sharon- Thank you! Wednesday morning I woke panic-...Sharon- Thank you! Wednesday morning I woke panic-stricken, but the nerves have calmed and I'm feeling much more accepting of the number. Just wish I could shake that Pinot Noir cloud from head. Takes a lot longer to brush off the fuzz at 50! ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-7623836633522805102011-10-23T00:07:21.417-04:002011-10-23T00:07:21.417-04:00for you J girl..fifty is foxy! Well done...and the...for you J girl..fifty is foxy! Well done...and the rhyme is groovy too. Though we have a bathroom cleaner called nifty in oz...<br />anyway....flirts and cleaning products aside..congrats on reaching the half century...it is a kinda groovy number...jeez i sound like greg brady....groovy baby...((big hug))Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-79134784642972579562011-10-22T17:30:49.246-04:002011-10-22T17:30:49.246-04:00Many happy returns. Sorry... I don't even wha...Many happy returns. Sorry... I don't even what to think about 50 - I'm still trying to get over 40. The cake picture did make me laugh; I hope it was supposed to?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-38747535331400241082011-10-22T16:55:02.684-04:002011-10-22T16:55:02.684-04:0050, if that isn't nice what is?
as neil would...50, if that isn't nice what is?<br /><br />as neil would say, long may you run!billy pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00128876723713271131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762878187346313358.post-4520856882669331612011-10-22T12:57:26.341-04:002011-10-22T12:57:26.341-04:00They say fifty is the "new forty".
Hmm...They say fifty is the "new forty". <br /><br />Hmmm?<br /><br />Love Neil Young! "Comes a Time" brings back soooo many memories. <br /><br />Happy Birthday!Loree Huebnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09845600356878587780noreply@blogger.com