We stayed at the Ocean Coast Hotel, but our second home was the beachside Sliders bar where we met some descendants of the Hatfields, some new Floydfest friends, swung on roped bar seats and danced to reggae music. According to the Wikipedia, “American Indian bands associated with the Timucua people settled on the island around […]
I didn’t expect to take more pictures on our last day on the beach at Marco Island, but then I saw this. We discovered some amazing sand art. Joe walked through an army of seabirds like the Kung Fu Grasshopper. See HERE. And I got too close to a seagull. The buildings on Marco Island […]
I imagine it as a tattoo like Tupac’s ‘Thug Life’ and Meyer’s ‘Home Life’ I’d more prefer ‘Ocean Life’ but the water’s too cold today and it wouldn’t make as good a tattoo So I swim in the gentle blue and let the ocean call like the pull of wild love I’ll eventually answer to […]
1. People-watching at the beach is like being at a Paris runway. As people pass by I see the best bathing suits, shirts, sundresses and mostly hats, things that I never see in stores and that I would like to buy, if they weren’t alreay owned. 2. Slow dancing at the Surf Ballroom was the […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Presss on February 17, 2022. Returning to the June Bug Center studio, where she first taught Irish dancing and ballet in 1996, Thally McBroom is offering Irish Ceili Dance classes on Mondays (6-7 pm) and Thursdays (12-1 and 6-7 pm). The classes are free (donations accepted) and will […]
1. A new program in Canada gives doctors the option of prescribing national park visits… “Given the growing body of evidence that indicates nature time can improve all kinds of different physical and mental health conditions, we’re hoping that our PaRx program not only improves patient health, but reduces costs to the healthcare system, and […]
“You spend the first part of your life collecting things and the second half getting rid of them.” Isabel Allende I’ve always been a documenter. I have dozens and dozens of photo albums that I started keeping in the ‘70s. Most are the bulky magnetic self-stick 3-ring albums, but once they collected and started to […]
I don’t remember exactly what Dead Reckoning drummer George Penn was saying to the crowd but I know this is a front-page picture. I do remember his enthusiasm and the energy and love shared by the musicians and dancers. We danced amongst friends and next to a fireman from Nelson County, who came specifically to […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on February 10, 2022. About two dozen community members turned out to listen to the poetry of Colleen Redman and Katherine Chantal on Sunday during the duo’s first event of their Soulful Aging Tour. Hosted by the Jessie Peterman, Redman and Chantal read from their recently published […]
You wouldn’t tell that you thought you were a mother when you were three-years-old that you lived in the Germantown projects and had a baby carriage for your baby doll And you wrote 100 poems before you wrote this one like a veteran who talks about everything but the war You were the mother in […]
1. I forget the real name of this IPA, but I call it the “Infinity Pool Beer.” 2. Shopping list needs: Pens. And I have to find a pen to write that down. 3. I only like books that make me want to underline lines and write in the margins. Two books I’m reading right […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on February 3, 2022. More than 35 Floyd community members enjoyed a slide show presentation from Floyd’s Ian Caton of Wood Thrush Native Plants Nursery on Saturday, learning some of the basics of gardening using native plants. The free-to-the-public event was hosted by the Partnership for Floyd […]
