November’s First Friday Opening at Floyd’s Troika Gallery featured an exhibit of new work by Gibby Waitzkin. Displayed through the month of November, the exhibit is a preview of Waitzkin’s upcoming solo show, Continuum of Being, at Martinsville’s Piedmont Arts Center in February. Waitzkin’s new work features naturally framed creations, blending artist-made paper, photographs and […]
~The following first appeared in the November 7th issue of The Floyd Press. Please note that this story gives details of the upcoming Biological Woodsmen Week in Floyd and Wendell Berry’s visit. If you’re going to be a biological woodsman and practice restorative forestry, you embrace the concept that what you leave in the forest […]
1. Last week’s most posted photo among Floydian Facebookers, which caused one friend to respond “I should get to town more often,” is HERE. 2. Virginia Governor elect Terry McAuliffe says he’d veto any bill to allow uranium mining: “I don’t support uranium mining,” he said. “First and foremost as governor, my job is to […]
Well-endowed moon a sleepy slip of silk lowers its gown onto open armed limbs Branches like fingers hold its luminous curve as it slowly reclines on the hush of horizon ________Colleen Redman_______dVerse Poets Pub
When I’m searching for something to blog about and I’m feeling uninspired, I’m like a doctor with a hammer trying to get a reflex. When I finally land on an idea that has some kick to it, I know I’ve hit the right one. ~ Colleen When I first started writing I didn’t know that […]
Flight of Fancy Hangs by a Web A Canvas for Black Walnut The Other Red Carpet ____________Shadow Shot Sunday
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on October 31, 2013. NASCAR Night at Ray’s Restaurant was a big hit. The recent fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Nichols family packed the house for dinner and a live auction. Floyd native, Charles Moles (pictured above) spends the majority of his time […]
1. This weekend I went to a Quaker meeting, celebrated a friend’s 87th birthday, attended a draft horse plowing at a school farm and found out I’m an INTJ (introverted/intuitive/thinking/judging Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) personality. 2. I’m not so sure I like being an INTJ. The only writers listed in the group of nerdy scientists and […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4HVLB_ndxM The secret to the title is revealed in the video clip______Wordless Wednesday
Poetry and the muse Sitting in a tree K-i-s-s-i-n-g First comes love Then inspiration Then comes a poem in a publication _______Colleen Redman___dVerse Poets Pub
– The following appeared in The Floyd Press in two parts, on October 24 and the 31st. “This is not a game,” said Dawn Barnes, the Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) coordinator who led a Poverty Simulation training at the Floyd EcoVillage on Sunday. “13.5% of the Floyd population is living in poverty, according to a […]
The poem this title is named for is HERE. More Halloween fools and ghouls are HERE. __________Shadow Shot Sunday
