Loose Leaf Notes

___Shadow Shot Sunday / Wordless Wednesday

After the nightly news comes the wood thrush The monks of the forest sing a sundown service Buried like jewels in canopy cathedrals their clarity of truth shines with good news and rises above all falsehood _____Colleen Redman / Poets United

1. A kayak is a type of Eskimo light boat, originally made from seal-skins stretched over a wooden frame.  The word kayak comes from the Danish kajak and the Greenland Eskimo qayaq and literally means “small boat of skins.” 2. A museum of 4 in the morning:  A new website devoted to pop cultural references to […]

-The following first appeared as ‘Fest’ive Spirit in Sounds of Floyd, a July 2017 magazine insert publication of The Floyd Press “I’m a lover of music.  I’ve performed everything from folk, punk, jazz, reggae, old time, swing, bluegrass, blues, rock, and world music.  I try to bring what I love and that’s what makes it authentic.” […]

– Out-of-focus camera art at Floydfest / Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday

I want a pink blow-up raft to drift carefree in a body of water I belong to Not like a stone skipping in and out plummets to the bottom when it’s done I want a pink raft more than a girl wants a Barbie doll or a pink poodle skirt of quilted satin I need […]

Members of Preserve Floyd (PF) recently urged the Floyd Board of Supervisors (BOS) to adopt a Community Choice Resolution, committing to renewable energy development that would shift the county’s energy sources to 80% renewable by 2030 and 100% by 2050. “After the Great Depression, FDR initiated the New Deal,” said PF speaker Mary Freday, during […]

1. When Donald Trump looks at a half-filled glass of water, he doesn’t see it half-full or half-empty, he sees his own reflection. 2. When Joe calls me sweet pea, I call him QT. 3. Whenever I say “hammock time” (which we had a lot of at Floydfest), a little voice in the back of […]

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