Loose Leaf Notes

_______Shadow Shot Sunday / Our World Tuesday

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 28, 2018 Becky Belcher Osborn was so distressed about young children being separated at the border from their asylum-seeking families that she found herself crying in public. “I saw a picture of a mother nursing her young child and I’m a mother of a nursing […]

1. What a life I lead. One day I played Scrabble with a friend, the next I swam at the pool, and the next I got an acupuncture treatment.  Even when I go to work, it’s to cover a concert. See HERE. 2. If we can be discombobulated, can we be combobulated? 3. Bob or […]

_______Wordless Wednesday

See why below … -Look for a photo spread on Floyd Fandango where The Broadcast  played Saturday night in an upcoming Floyd Press. Check out The Broadcast performing an original @ Fandango HERE.  / Our World Tuesday

My poet friend in India heard the wind confessing but here in America I heard it complain It stirred like a conscience warning of consequences when winners against losers are the rule of law From hush to bluster in the simmer of summer the wind gave voice to voiceless children helpless hostages held to stop […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 21, 2018 “It’s the best festival to date, and I’ve been to all of them,” said Michael Link about the 3rd annual Little River Poetry Festival (LRPF) at On the Water in Floyd. Link, a photographer and aspiring poet from Virginia Beach, wasn’t the only […]

1. Made in the Shade etymology: Possibly from a children’s rhyme: “ice-cold lemonade, made in the shade, stirred with a spade, by an old maid.” 2. My friend Fred wrote a letter-to-the-editor directed to our Trump- supportive Congressman about the loss of environmental protections under Trump.  The night after reading the letter I dreamt that […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on June 7, 2018 The weather was perfect and the attendance was high at this year’s first Floyd Small Town Summer, a series of free events held throughout the summer at the Warren Lineberry Park.  This year’s first of the season Thursday evening of family fun included […]

________Wordless Wednesday

My soul is like a goldfish that wants to be seen but doesn’t like attention The ocean is too big The fishbowl’s too small I’m afraid to be abandoned but want to be alone In a dream I grow legs and carry the fishbowl outside where happy cats chase sparrows and sunlight swallows shadow ________Colleen […]

I get paid in food.