Loose Leaf Notes

1. Ziggy Marley’s people have checked out this blog.   I was told that by a Floydfest staffer after I signed an agreement in order to be in the media pit and take pictures when he played Floydfest on Friday night.

2. He and/or his people were also in the Festival’s new Revolution Juice and Grateful Bread yurt because someone posted a picture on his Facebook page of the menu that included a smoothie called “The Ziggy Marley.”  The drink was made of mango, watermelon, ginger, lime and coconut water.

3. After four days of the Floydfest lifestyle, I miss it when it’s over but, but I’m also feeling the truth in Elbert Hubbard’s quote “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”

4. When I’m tired, rest doesn’t penetrate. It rolls right off like water rolls off gortex.

5. I loved when Ziggy sang his father’s song, but even more, I loved his Conscious Party songs.  All I could think about when he performed those songs was Joe and I walking in St. Croix in 1988 after drinking Bailey Coladas at a shack bar on the beach.   Joe was on the island re-building after Hurricane Hugo, and I had come to visit.  We were in love, strutting up the street, just a little drunk, and swinging a boombox that was playing Conscious Party at full volume.  More HERE.

6. Covering the festival’s first Revolution Style fashion show was right up my alley, or should I say, right up my runway.  I’ve actually done runway modeling in the past, long ago in Boston and more than once, a fact I had forgotten until just now.

7. And it’s not the first fashion show I’ve covered. HERE’S a show I covered featuring Floyd fashions in 2008, another in 2009 HERE and one in 2011 HERE.

8. My blog friend Tabor had a post with beefcake in the title and I actually thought it was going to be about food.

9. In my world abs are alphabet letters and “there’s an app for that” makes me think about restaurant appetizers.

10. Title of a story in our local paper on the Farmers Market that caught my eye: Lettuce Turnip the Beet.

11. The paint box pictured above is one that was used at the teen Imagine Tent at Floydfest for spray painting during my son’s collage journaling workshop. Before it was used for that it was a raccoon trap, part of an obstacle course and a fort.  See another incarnation of the box HERE.

12. I shop for words / as though the dictionary was a catalog / of women’s clothes or shoes / As though the folded over corners / of favorite words on pages / were the edited alliterations / of hemmed skirts.  The rest of this poem is HERE.

13. THIS poem was made in America

Post Notes: This post featured art found at Floydfest, all of which (except for the bus shot) were found at the Imgaine Teen Tent at my son Josh Collage Journaling workshop______Thirteen Thursday