~ The following first appeared (with a larger photo spread) in The Floyd Press newspaper on November 21, 2012 The community recently came out in large numbers to support Sekai Talley-LaRoche in a fundraiser benefit for COTA, the children’s organ transplant association that guides communities in raising funds for transplant-related expenses. Nineteen-year-old Sekai has Cystic […]
“They’re so sensual. I just want to be alone with them,” I said to Joe about Silvie Granatelli’s new work when we made it out from our house to two other 16 Hands studios on Sunday. Leaving our house, where my son Josh Copus and his guest artist Bryce Brisco were hosting their part of […]
Sixteen Hands is a twice-yearly artisan studio tour that takes place throughout the countryside of Floyd, Virginia. My home along the Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the four tour locations and features the pottery of my son Josh Copus and his guest artist, which was potter Bryce Brisco year. More about the tour, which […]
While others were making pies and stuffing on Thursday, we were moving furniture in our house, getting ready for the annual fall studio tour of the Sixteen Hands artisan collective, of which my son Josh is a member. All the living room and kitchen furniture, including the kitchen table (but excluding the kitchen sink) got […]
1. I like to call my friend Eydie, who rings me up at the Harvest Moon health food store, “Sweetie Eydie.” 2. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the word treat has eat and tea and tart right in it. 3. Lately I’ve been liking the word mosey and I want to do more […]
A comma of moon in a story of sky punctuates the pause between dusk and dawn ________________________ Colleen Redman – dVerse Poetry Pub
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words when you don’t have time to write words. I spent the bulk of the weekend supporting an individual in foster care with Wall Residences and we enjoyed a couple of walks. HERE’S the soundtrack. Our World Tuesday
Note: Photos were taken for a story I’m working on about dancer/teacher Katie Wells and her Tuesday night improv dance classes at the Dogtown Sun Hall. Sunday Shadow Shots
He’s born to be wild! Too bad the back-up vocal was baby Liam crying throughout. HERE is Liam in a better mood, showing off his own rock star moves.
1. “At the heart of our ad-saturated democratic process is a moral paradox. Politicians raise and spend billions of dollars to convince us to trust them. But the fevered competition for votes virtually compels them to lie to us.” Dana Radcliffe 2. The red leaf lips photo posted here, which I got from the Recycled […]
Wordless Wednesday
The elderly man that used to wave from his garden as I drove by on my trips to town has been gone now for several years. His house is for sale for a second time and the grass has grown over his vegetable plot, a long rectangle of plowed earth that was lined with pink […]
