The sound of packing tape being torn off the roll and pots being wrapped in paper started early Friday morning at our house. We got off to a good start for the 15th biannual 16 Hands Studio Tour that my Asheville Potter son, Josh Copus, is a part of. His returning guest artist Joey Sheehan […]
We headed over the river (creek) and through the woods to Zephyr Farm for Thanksgiving dinner. I had some bad thoughts while carrying this pumpkin pie about whose face I could throw it in. “Wait for the whipped cream,” Joe said. “I don’t really like pumpkin pie. If it was apple I wouldn’t even […]
1. It’s interesting to me the way electric tools and equipment run are still measured in horsepower, especially after attending Biological Woodsmen Week events over the weekend, seeing restorative forestry horse logging first hand and even watching a horse powered treadmill log splitter cut wood for firewood. See it HERE. 2. When President Kennedy was […]
~ The following first appeared in the Fall issue of All About Her, a regional magazine news insert. “Everyone has to grocery shop. You should feel inspired when you do,” says Margie Redditt, owner of Floyd’s Harvest Moon Food Store. Redditt believes that shopping, cooking and eating should be fun, adventurous and good for you, […]
Digging roots of Echinacea and Valerian To strengthen my resistance to quiet my restless sleep Exposing the source of innocent flowers Dirty secrets and childhood traumas Washing the wounds with the sting of vodka Made into medicine with the patience of time ___________Colleen Redman_______dVerse Poets Pub Post notes: I wrote this poem sometime in the […]
When I was introduced to Wendell Berry as a local writer, he said, “I’m all for the preservation of local writers. I am one.” For such a widely read, award winning author of about 40 books, that doesn’t sound right, but that’s how the farmer/activist/poet sees himself, and it’s what keeps him humble. Berry was […]
______________Shadow Shot Sunday
Nursery room sky in a cold afternoon painted in pastels of rose and blue Anticipation of the darkest night and the hopeful heralding of new life ___________Colleen Redman_______Skywatch Friday
1. I recently had to get up in the middle of the night to write down this thought about how made-in-China products in the U.S. are like invasive species. 2. I read books slowly either because I don’t like them or I like them too much and don’t want them to end. 3. I think […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 7, 2013 The Floyd County High School broke ground at its new Farm School on Saturday, November 2nd. Teachers, parents, students and farmers were among those who gathered to watch the first quarter acre of the sixteen acre piece plowed by two teams […]
Liam Pat wore his hat all the way to the laundry mat The only time he took it off was when he went to the barber shop Liam Pat wore his hat seven days a week The only time he took it off was when he went to sleep Liam Pat wore his hat to […]
A fog has rolled in and settled. A lone pumpkin, pecked by the chickens, is the only color in my view. The lack of birdsong is eerie. Occasionally a lamenting hen, who has all but given up laying, will disrupt the overcast hush. A distant gunshot means meat in someone’s freezer. The ring of wind […]
