-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 15, 2017. Attendees at an Herbal Play Day, held Saturday at Riverstone Organic Farm, learned how common herbs can be used for home remedies and for food. They picked red clover, were shown the nutrient rich spring greens, drank lemon balm water and learned that […]
1. “We’re here to be part of the great song and we don’t even have to know the song. We just have to know our note.” – Rumi 2. Friday night in Floyd: We met a family from France and kids were break dancing on the floor. See HERE. 3. THIS is my guru reading […]
Meadow Haiku: Mown grass beckons me / A gathering of poets / And the river waits – by Judith Stevens -The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 22, 2017 – There was a poet named William Blake at the 2nd annual Little River Poetry Festival (LRPF). Under the blue-striped festival tent […]
_________Skywatch Friday / Our World Tuesday
I clean the stove with my mother We weed the garden together I feel every ache as I bend and stoop like she used to Her things speak for her in a silent voice A bread knife A tulip print that hung over her bed There’s a porcelain cup that I took from her house […]
1. What if every memory of the past was really a premonition of the future? -After watching the movie Arrival 2. My Asheville Potter son calls the wild clay display pictured below “The Petting Zoo.” 3. Right now, he’s teaching student potters at Penland School of Crafts. He’s got them digging wild clay and being […]
Aka: Colleen Gets a Bingo______Wordless Wednesday
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 15, 2017. “Green spaces make life better,” said Small Town Summer event organizer Dylan Locke at the first in a series of free events, held at the Warren Lineberry Park. He explained that the series, featuring concerts, movies, theater productions and more, aren’t about […]
On the plane ride home from Boston to Roanoke I ponder our brother’s dead body flying as cargo from Houston to Logan in 2001 Folding my magazine to a page on green burial I read that death is a spiritual birth and that embalmment means draining the body of blood and filling it with formaldehyde […]
______________Shadow Shot Sunday
1. No, the picture above, taken at the Little River Poetry Festival, is not a poetry prompt or even a prop. It’s a healing treatment that the festival co-founder, Judith, is demonstrating to the group. The q-tips were first dipped in Glycothymoline, which Edgar Cayce recommended for reducing mucous and alkalizing the body. Much easier than […]
We sold it on her birthday, which made the pain of another goodbye seem also like a gift, given directly from her. A special thanks to my brother Joey for his hard work on making it happen.
