~The following was published in The Floyd Press on October 29, 2009 along with a photo spread (these and others). It also appears on the Press’s online site HERE. Under unexpected blue skies, a banner crowd turned out for the first annual SplitRail Eco-Fair on Saturday, October 24th. “It’s a miracle,” one of the organizers […]
1. Today’s 13 Thursday all started because I did some google research after hearing about a Russian poet who was imprisoned for being a dissident and carved poetry in bars of soap and then memorized the poems before using the soap for washing. 2. I also just learned that they now make catchable, stackable, almost […]
Here he comes here he comes here he comes! There he goes there he goes there he goes! Watch HERE.
Sun’s gold silver-polished Black Madonna’s holy chalice A ceremonial grail of moon perceived half empty or believed half full
She’s at home in the woods and needed to be near water before winter sets in. Although, we didn’t hike all the way to the Cascades waterfall, we were uplifted by the natural setting, made giddy by the rushing water, and humbled by the randomly placed giant boulders. Our conversations on life and death ebbed […]
In the fall, our house and yard and the woods that surround them are colored coordinated. Everything looks good enough to eat, like a warm bowl of mashed carrots, Yukon gold potatoes, cranberry sauce, and butternut squash. Fallen leaves cover the open acre of green grass like candy corn. Poplar, oak, and maple trees catch […]
~ The following appeared in The Floyd Press on October 15, 2009. The SustainFloyd Eco-Fair mentioned in the story will take place in downtown Floyd tomorrow. The fall foliage made for a scenic drive down the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Nancy P. Morrisette parking lot for a community photo shoot with a purpose. Carpooling […]
1. On Sunday I went to the Sun Hall to dance to the sweet Grateful Dead tunes of The Kind in a benefit concert to stop mountaintop removal. With friends all around, including a surprise dancing appearance of Ruth, a community elder and one of its best loved matriarch, we raised a lot of energy. […]
Red maple leaves fell from envelopes this autumn, all the way from Massachusetts where Joe has been sitting a month long silent meditation retreat. They spilled out of a letter that I hadn’t thought would come because other (shorter) silent retreats he’s done have barred writing. I had forgotten how romantic real letter writing can […]
I saw nobody today But the slip of blue tip of salamander tail slithered between porch floor slats I saw nobody But a misplaced butterfly perched on my knee It landed on my foot and tickled I heard nobody today But the wind stirred the deep mountain song of porch chimes and glass chimes called […]
Like the rest of Floyd, I’ve been watching the new Floyd Community Market take shape for weeks now and stopped for the above photo after my friend Rowan (right) hollered down to me from the roof. A downtown farmer’s market and more, built with the goal of supporting local food and commerce, the timber framed […]
And sometimes the spoken word is sung. At Cafe del Sol’s October Spoken Word Open Mic, Carolyn (Kirby) Romano sang THIS original song. She’ll be performing opera with the Kandinsky Trio in a benefit concert for the Jacksonville Center next Saturday at the center. Young Actor’s Co-op’s Abraham “Wolf” came from the Maryland Renaissance Faire […]
