Loose Leaf Notes

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Miss Floyd County Fair 2021, Meriden Roberts, was a semi-finalist at the Miss Virginia Association of Fairs Scholarship Pageant in Williamsburg on January 8. Roberts, a Galax native who studies Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise at Virginia Tech, placed in the top eleven of twenty-three contestants and was also the recipient of the pageant’s Photogenic […]

Making a poem Is like looking for an opening then picking at a splinter you don’t know how you got It’s like telling a secret without naming names like saving a life you know is worth living ______Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United  

1. The word “end” is in endure but endure means not to end. 2. Is sage the mutant plural of age? 3. Animals only have one print to track but we have many, depending on what shoes we have on. 4. Drifting clouds like soapy suds / collect around the full moon drain / letting […]

________Our World Tuesday  / Wordless Wednesday

Last day for the Student Art Show Exhibit at the Floyd Center for the Arts. The following gallery first appeared in The Floyd Press on January 20, 2022. A view of the Floyd County High School art show in the Hayloft Gallery at the Floyd Center for the Arts, which will be on display through […]

1. My porch is a winter bird sanctuary. 2. Today I walked down / another long driveway / was stopped by an ice puddle / A Narnia window / A fairy godmother’s oracle / too small to skate on 3. I stood my ground / on the spiraled path / born of contrast / and […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on January 13, 2022. “New year, new service,” said Dr. Christina Alba of Manifesting Wellness Family Chiropractic who recently opened a community Salt Therapy Room at her 613 East Main Street chiropractic office. Studies have found that salt therapy, also known as halotherapy, is beneficial for respiratory […]

I was out shooting pictures of the latest show at the Floyd Center for the Arts. When I got home and looked at them, I saw how the picture above literally grabbed me. That’s me in the denim pants reflected off Chris Bolduc’s Springtide Transfiguration, adding another surreal dimension to his work. _______Our World Tuesday

I found poetry on the radio and moons that dangled like carrots on sticks I found God in a picture frame at the top of the stairs and a book of fairytales in a house that is gone I found rusted metal butterfly wings that I keep with a picture of my older sister I […]

1. “The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.” ― Confucius 2. Beware of Be aware? 3. Yesterday I rode past a house with a large propane tank in the yard and thought it was a snowman. 4. The snow we got at […]

-The following is a selection of photos from our first snow of the year. Most of the shots first appeared in The Floyd Press on January 6, 2022.  ________Our World Tuesday  / Wordless Wednesday