Loose Leaf Notes

_________Our World Tuesday/ Wordless Wednesday

They wagged the dog that ate Hunter Biden’s laptop Rudy’s vote fraud affidavits and the stacks of papers to show Trump’s divested business that were reported to be blank They wagged the dog that ate Trump’s IRS audit Hillary’s emails and the fat book McEnany gave to Stahl that was supposed to show Trump’s health […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 25, 2020. Floyd Tourism director Pat Sharkey didn’t want to see the corner of Locust and Main Street be dark for the holiday season. With the recent closing of Farmers Supply store, known for the festive Christmas window displays created by the store’s longtime manager […]

Two baked pies and two written poems later, the carport Thanksgiving actually happened on a lovely light decked porch deck, small and coronavirus style in 60 degree clear sky weather. When it comes to cooking turkey, Katherine is the Top Chef winner. She also took most of these pictures. But I’m always up for taking […]

1. It’s fun to say “in my book” as a preface to explaining how I think when I don’t even have to have an actual book. 2. Think thank or think tank? 3. Last week I posted that Trump was a lame duck but has always been a quack. My Dharmacratic friend Will posted this: […]

Aka: Who’s a Snowflake Now? ________Wordless Wednesday

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 19, 2020. “Colder by the moment. It’s a blizzard! I can’t see anything!” were some of the lines at the Floyd Community Theatre Guild’s Sunday performance of Frozen Jr. The play’s theme and urgency to save a fantasy kingdom from a magical deep freeze seemed […]

Poetry is a reverse psychology A Van Gogh gold mother lode turned starry night Read from a mirror in a rear view Tied together with a strand of moon It’s a lost and found letter returned to its sender Dream delivered Truth unsealed _______Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United

Following the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden decisively won the electoral college and more than 5 million more popular votes than Trump, the few Trump voters that I’ve spoken with seem incredulous that Trump lost the election. They deny he lost and parrot his baseless claims about widespread voter fraud, even though national, […]

1. Panoramic is a prescription for pandemic. 2. I can’t force a poem like I can’t force myself to dream. I wait for both to happen. And some dreams come as big dreams and some dreams are small, just like poems. 3. I was reading an interview with the late poet Mary Oliver, who the […]

___________Our World Tuesday   / Wordless Wednesday

My mailbox is about 200 yards from our house. This was a steep mile up to Buffalo Mountain, the highest point of Floyd County. There were lots of places to stop and sit on the way up. A root mandala. We made it! I call this “the hood ornament.” And this is a natural bonsai […]