Loose Leaf Notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q-YayznEmA Our World Tuesday / This is Part II.  Part I is HERE.

Sometimes when you live in Floyd you forget that Friday is Jamboree night until you go to town for an unrelated reason and see tourists taking pictures of the Farmers Supply.  People are walking around with ice cream cones and the strum of fiddles can be heard. You cross the one stoplight intersection to meet […]

Watch some Hammock Havoc HERE. ________Shadow Shot Sunday

In April I calculate poetry the way others do their taxes as though the world was overdue for a good accounting Bursting to put into words what the birds already know with each emerging daffodil I mark spring’s growing windfall Its affluent bloom and excess of green are annual assets we all get to claim […]

1.  I can easily ignore the phone ringing and wait for the caller to leave a message, but as soon as my iphone goes off, I don’t know why, but I jump and can’t pick it up soon enough. Luckily, hardly anyone calls me. 2. Reason to get up in the morning:  to check and […]

_________for Wordless Wednesday

  There was a good representation of Blue Mountain High School (BMHS) students who traveled from Floyd to attend the Youth Peace Summit in Roanoke on Saturday.  The day-long event was hosted by the Plowshare Peace and Justice Center at the Unitarian Universalist Church.   Workshops included Singing for Social Change, Conflict Resolution, Yoga and […]

The above photos were taken at the new Village Center at Warm Hearth Village (a local retirement community) where I was visiting my dear friend Alwyn.  I have visited Alwyn — a writer, artist, environmentalist and former Rudolf Steiner kindergarten teacher — the last two April’s on Earth Day. The day these were taken it […]

Trapeze moon swings without a net slides the steep pitch of night’s wide stretch _________Colleen Redman______Open Link Monday/Real Toads

1. I didn’t leave the neighborhood this weekend because my five-year old grandson Bryce and his 3-year old brother Liam slept over, but I still took in some art when I picked Bryce up at my neighbor Elisha’s house, where he was playing with her five-year old son.  Elisha has a straw bale home that […]

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