“The world that you see outside you is the state of your own nervous system. It’s because you have senses that the sky is blue, that the sun is light and that vibrations in the air are sound. You turn them into color, light and sound.” – Alan Watts Scientists invent words to describe that […]
1. Our grandson Liam slept over on the weekend and we had a two-day game of monopoly. Guess who won? 2. I am useless when it comes to video games, but I grew up with pinball and can still play a decent game. 3. The day after playing pinball at the Pinball Museum in Roanoke, […]
Live Music and dancing filled the Roadhouse Saturday from 8 to midnight. It was a home game. It was a CD release party for Floyd’s own Music Road Co, and a party it was. Appalachian Space Train opened the show with some rockin tunes. Just imagine being at a full-house live-music party where there were […]
The weekly poem keeps track like a ledger It’s on the shopping list with bagels and butter It’s a creative engagement a news announcement an exercise to keep me fit that marks my place as a working poet ______Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. Our brains have algorithms like Facebook’s content ranking. They give us more of whatever we spend time on. 2. Sh is a word you can use in Scrabble. 3. “We’re only as sick as our secrets. The Buddha said three things cannot be hidden for long: the sun, the moon, and the truth. In […]
_________Wordless Wednesday
Should I let him win? I had “shortcake” written on my calendar for Sunday. But when I looked at it Sunday morning, it didn’t compute. I wondered how a cake could be short, and what about a tall cake? Then I remembered. It’s a father’s day tradition, strawberry shortcake at Outer Space brunch style. Yo, […]
1. I see other people. 2. Joe and I ran into an old friend at Outer Space Friday night. We had some beers, listened to some good music and played an impromptu game of Scrabble at the very table that I play on with my Tuesday Scrabble group, which made me ask ‘is this cheating?’ […]
STOP for our Appalachian species, a procession celebrating our region’s biodiversity. Hosted primarily by Springhouse Community School, the giant puppets were mostly handmade at puppet making workshops in town. Downtown looks better with giant puppets. “In the name of the birds, the bees and the breeze,” Emily Dickinson said. Follow the Leader to Where the […]
Now I lay me down to sleep to dream 10,000 things to spin in orbit along with the planets to rest in the Tao of the milky way Now I let my mind escape the confinement of the brain’s limited space to follow my mother’s echo to break the barrier of linear time Now I […]
1. The Little River Poetry Festival is the poetry version of Floydfest. For one long weekend I get pulled from my daily life and am in a different universe. 2. A Driving Inspiration: Moon in high gear / with one headlight out / Moon is the muse / that drives me 3. One of the […]
Poetic License? Everyone brought their style to the last day of the 3-day festival. Sunday Best? Richmond poet Joanna Lee was Sunday’s featured reader. Her poem “To the Daughter I Never Had” knocked me out. “There were days I never thought of you, whole stretches of hours I was happy finite. Weeks I got lost […]
