Bridget Eileen's Commonplace Book (2014-2015)

Notes on The Arts, Books, Poems/Poets/Poetry, Creativity, Culture & Current Events, from 2014-2015

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New Tumblrs for Bridget Eileen

I moved my Tumblr to:

http://bridgeteileencommonplacebook.tumblr.com/

Tune in there and

http://vintagebridgestyle.tumblr.com/

For my latest Tumblr antics!

Homepage: http://www.bridget-eileen.com/

Style Blog: http://www.vintagebridgestyle.com/

Online Notebook: http://bridgeteileen-commonplacebook.blogspot.com/

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GLUTEN FREE MUSEUM

GLUTEN FREE MUSEUM - another reason to love the internet!!!!

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Wha da eveh lovin fuq dis fool gawin on aboo?

Honestly, the eye-roll inducing banal arrogance of this article would be so easy to dismiss if it weren’t for the fact that there’s a billion of these pathetic puds out there.

=sigh= I feel sorry for his inevitable impending professional demise. He is ruined.

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Another good follow up:

http://jaimiegusman.com/things-i-can-say-about-mfa-writing-professors-now-that-i-no-longer-have-one/

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Thanks to the intro in this edition, I have just realized that Jane Austen was 36 when she completed Pride & Prejudice. Which means I have 5 months left to create my virtuosic writing if I want to keep up with the Janeses.

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American Witch, Community and Marketplace -- brought to you by Annie Finch et al. Check it out.

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Rhide That Island, part 1

This begins a series of limericks I've penned for every city and town in Rhode Island, in an effort to provide fairer representation within the field for men who don't happen to live in Nantucket. ...

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I'm not a slut, I just have an extroverted pussy.

Things to say to haters

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Used book ephemera. I wonder if Audra has forgiven Angie during these past 15 years? You could write a book about this.

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"Who farts without remorse?" should be the title of my humorous memoir about my online dating forays.

me, to a friend, who asked that rhetorical question after I told him about a guy I was on a date with who unabashedly farted in front of me while I waited for my cab to go home & end our date under already awkward circumstances

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Team Good Witch Wildcats won the Kitten Bowl on Imbolc! Kismet!

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Eat the Weeds: The Magnificent Dandelion

(Taraxacum spp.)

I am loathe to call these incredible plants “weeds,” but weeds they are in the eyes of most. I use them as salad greens, but the flowers can be made into wine and soft drinks, and the roasted roots make a caramel-like a coffee substitute. Parts of the plant can also be used for natural yellow and green dyes.

The plant itself is a dynamic accumulator and producer or an array of essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients (vitamins A, C and K, and calcium, potassium, iron and manganese).

This sunshine-yellow flower attracts pollinators to the garden, grows in a wide variety of circumstances, and with a long taproot cycles deeply-buried soil nutrients to the surface (a so-called “fountain plant”). Numerous species of butterfly rely on it for sustenance during various stages of their life cycles.

Various dandelion extracts are being researched as cancer medicines, as all parts of the plant contain a number of pharmacologically-active compounds. Long used in folk medicine as a tonic for the blood, liver, and gall bladder, dandelions have a mild diuretic and laxative effect on the system: it is a registered drug in Canada for this reason. 

Dandelions are among my favourite plants, and if they weren’t already so abundant, I would plant them! If you can find them in a place that is not plagued by runoff or sprayed with pesticides, I’d highly recommend you explore their culinary and medicinal potential.

More: “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”

#foraging #dandelions #superfoods #health

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A symbol of contemporary masculinity—Pat the Patriot.

A symbol of a leader protecting the underrepresented and oppressed — the original Patriot, Samuel Adams (actually that beer on is modeled after Paul Revere).

A symbol of a leader protecting the underrepresented and oppressed — St Bridget of Kildaire.

A symbol of ancient femininity - Triple Goddess maiden, mother & crone, Brighid

Imbolc blessing from Boston, on this Super Bowl Sunday. May the 2 major days occurring at the same time be a symbol of/ catalyst for the union & harmony between the masculine & feminine in our coming days. What a good kind of spell to cast.

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After-Cave - Michelle Detorie : Small Press Distribution

After-Cave

Just bought this for myself. What should we call this poet, upon my most recent purchase? Excited is what. 

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I’m not alone in this love that saturates more than for any other poet. I think because you give so much of yourself, we are devoted due to your generous vulnerability.

There is something else too, though, for me. Neponset, Nantasket, Hanover, World’s End—to drop them into your poems is like a code for future poets from the South Shore. A message, “yes, I’ve felt the lonely isolation of being a weird arty type where banality thrives.” I think only we catch the depths of those word drops, which is why we get a little giddy when we find them in your work, and discover amongst ourselves who else has had that rush of recognition, that release of relief when we receive the encoded message, and we realize we’re not alone in that loneliness we once knew before we made it out.

It’s only one of thousands of reasons why I love you but it’s a special one. You’re a special one. Thank you for what you’ve created. Thank you for what you’ve shared. Thank the others who keep finding & sharing more previously unpublished treasures. And happy birthday.

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Resolution

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From Femme Actuelle.

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Love this intricate beauty using commercial crafts.

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One Year of Wild Rebounding

It was a year ago today that the fella I dumbly let string me along for the better part of two and a half years told me he'd been seeing someone for the last 3 months. Hmm. Yes. So. What did I do? Well, I went on 48 first dates is what I did. Some of which even lead to 2, 3, 4, etc. It was exhausting! And fun, sometimes. Especially when I went out with very attractive younger men who worshipped me as diva goddess of love. Not to mention an ego boost. Rawr. (Thanks again to Joan Holloway Harris for making 30 yo curvaceous red heads the beacon of lusty power towards which men long to sail their ships.) Those were my favorite adventures, I'd say. And other adventures were bafflingly exasperating. Like the guy who was meeting me after work. He asked for 6, I told him 7 was the earliest I could because I work late. So he said ok. When we met up, he'd already had dinner because he'd been "waiting for an hour." This rudeness was a blessing because it made my one drink date excusable, "I have to go home now so I can get dinner." People are so alarmingly idiotic sometimes. I should definitely write a book. And I'll write in the dedication, "This is definitely NOT dedicated to So-and-so who strung me along for years, precipitating a year of endless rebounds, that tootsie-roll-sized prick." Happy New Year! Here's to the end of rebounds.