1. “Awakening to one’s inner story and finding life-long initiatory paths comprises the “real work” and genuine opus of our lives. The problem is that the exact paths of awakening are blocked by received ideas, early life traumas and over-adaptation to the needs of others. In the long run however, genuine transformation is the secret […]
Virginia is for Lovers – one of the most successful marketing slogans in the country – is celebrating its 50 year anniversary this year. 50 years ago my sister Sherry and her boyfriend went camping at Virginia Beach and came home with a Virginia is for Lovers button. I somehow talked her into giving it […]
It was a Dogtown Pisces Dance Party! Our friend Ruth took this video clip of us dancing. THIS might be the Bob Marley song where the Seedpickers changed the words “in the government yard in Trenchtown” to “in a government yard in Dogtown!” And cornmeal porridge changed to pizza “of which I shared with you.” […]
A wise woman’s wilderness at the bottom of a cup rises like a lost continent that foretells the last sip It grins like a rainbow from a black scrying mirror Across my sunbathed reflection it bends to the future _______ Colleen Redman / Poets United / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
I was in town for grocery shopping this week and the County Sales sign stopped me in my tracks. I’ve lived in Floyd long enough to see the building it hung from change from The Harvest Moon Food Store to noteBooks and The Black Water Loft Coffee House. Some can remember back far enough to […]
1. If the average night’s sleep is eight hours (one third of a day), one sleeps for one third of one’s life. If you live, say, 75 years, that’s 25 years asleep. 2. I’m married to a Joe who’s not average. 3. Can you get carpal tunnel from squishing slime too much? 4. 4-Minute Moon: Like a boiled […]
The upside of having 7 rounds of letters with only 1 point each is that all those Rs, Ts, and Es make it easier to make a SCRABBLE (worth 50 extra points), especially if you have an S (also only worth one point). And, a SCRABBLE (or what some call a BINGO) is a long […]
Like a boiled egg with the top scooped out the moon is a shell of itself ____________Colleen Redman / Poets United
1. Just when I thought that maybe I should get a real part-time job, I was hired to write four stories about Floyd. 2. Several people that I don’t know want to buy THIS from me. 3. All I know is that Democrats have to work together, bringing experience, skill and caution together with bold […]
________Wordless Wednesday
That’s true on Valentine’s Day, or if you’re at the Sweet HeART Chocolate Affair, a yearly fundraiser hosted by the Floyd Artists Association for the Floyd County High School Art Department. All the sweets and treats are homemade. Attendees chose between tastings or to-go plates. Pies, cakes and art were auctioned off. Student art was […]
Time has saved me a seat and this rocker is where I landed as if transported from a classroom where I watch the clock waiting for the last bell to save me Now the look back is longer than the look forward is and I’m watching for a door onto a bright inspiration But the […]
