Loose Leaf Notes

Shop Local Post Notes: 1. Grateful Bread Bakery 2. Jeanie O’Neill’s Boutique 3.  Finders Keepers 4. Grateful Bread 5. New Mountain Mercantile 6. Farmers Supply. _________Wordless Wednesday

Aka: This is how you do it, Floyd. Look for story and pictures of the Gingerbread Ball, a fundraiser at Dogtown Roadhouse for the Rising Sun Community School, in an upcoming issue of The Floyd Press.

I waited 30 years to see my first performance of The Nutcracker ballet.  I saw it with my 4 year old grandson Liam, whose attention was good (although his enthusiasm was above a whisper).  He stayed engaged at least until intermission. We were very proud that a member of Floyd’s Springhouse Community School (a project-based […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 26, 2014 Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experience in the environment.  – Maria Montessori Every Wednesday, elementary students at the Rising Sun Community School (RSCS) prepare a hot lunch […]

1. Comment overheard on the unrest in Ferguson: “The problem is not so black and white. Oh. Yes it is.” 2. Is “spare” the mutant plural of “pare,” as in spare the clutter and pare it all down? 3. When does too much cuddling lead coddling? 4. “Here’s the thing. When we talk about race […]

Wordless Wednesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJsXOJj3N64 “That old dirt ain’t worth nothing to me.  It’s what ya’ll do to it that gives it value.” – Tobacco farmer Neil Woody.   Read more the tobacco farmer with a drainage problem in the field where my Asheville Potter Son, Josh Copus, digs clay HERE.

December sun is dull like an unsharpened knife Its light melts like butter on toast Fleeting and pale its brightness won’t stick I know it’s there but can’t see it Like a mug of warm morning already spilled in summer the sun lays tipped on its side Then it rolls too fast like a cool […]

There’s still time to see the Festival of Trees at Jacksonville Center’s Winterfest, where 40 or so  trees, uniquely decorated by local businesses, are lighting up the art center’s newly renovated classroom. It’s a fun and festive fundraiser, where festival goers can bid on their favorite tree and bidding proceeds go to the support the center’s art […]

– The following also appeared in The Floyd Press newspaper.     Taste test surveys and interviews were conducted, data was collected and analyzed, signs like “There is no Planet B” were painted and clown face paint was donned in preparation for Springhouse Community School’s (SHCS) first Project Presentation November 6th at the Floyd EcoVillage.    […]

1. Talking about the effects that wood firing has on clay pots, my Asheville Potter son Josh said, “It’s highly planned randomness.” 2. After a trip to the Mill Mountain Zoo in Roanoke and buying Bryce and Liam stuffed puppies that they named and used in their dramatic play as scent tracking dogs, Bryce gave […]