Juliet changed her name to Violet but not many people knew She signed it that way in her handwritten letters and followed it with x’s and o’s I was her Romeo once when life was wasted on youth before photos were torn from album pages and forbidden affections surpressed She made a path in snowy […]
Watch a video of Katie Wells‘ fantastic dance performance at the New Voices art opening at the Jacksonville Center for the arts HERE. Photos of the art are HERE. Sunday Shadow Shot
“Maybe 1,000’s, but definitely not millions,” I told the young Blue Mountain School students when they asked me how many poems I had written, maybe a million? “How long does it take to write a long poem, when did you start writing and have you ever been published?” were some of the thoughtful questions these […]
1. I know for sure that the economy is improving. Our hens just started laying again. 2. If a scribe is such a noble profession how come the word scribble means to make a bunch of careless or worthless writings or drawings? 3. Eknath Eswaran was talking about meditation and choosing a mantra when he […]
~The following first appeared in the January 31, 2012 issue of The Floyd Press. “We’re going to look at all aspects of music production,” said Floyd Music Lab director Joe DeJarnette at the lab’s Open House Saturday evening. Housed in the trailer adjacent to the main June Bug Center building, the Floyd Music Lab is […]
Note: ~ I’m getting set to be a visiting poet in a class of young children at Blue Mountain School tomorrow, which made me think of the following poem, written in 2007 and originally titled Fruit Loops. Plum is yum and cherry is cheery But what part of berry is raspy? Bananas can be split […]
The following first appeared in the August 2011 issue of Natural Awakenings of Southwest Virginia. It was also published in the fall 2011 issue of It’s All About Her magazine. Kari Kovick, music teacher and founder of The Early Childhood Music Program of Floyd, has a sign hanging in her home that she purchased at […]
The moon is busy at night school It sits at the head of the class growing its body of knowledge among an accolade of gold stars __________________Skywatch Friday/Shadow Shot Sunday
