1. Freud is like the Old Testament and Jung is like the New Testament. 2. “Two men looked into a pond. Said the one: ‘I see a quantity of mud, a shoe and an old can.’ Said the other: ‘I see all these, but I also see the glorious reflection of the sky.’” via Alan […]
Someone mentioned The Twilight Zone. I called it an Escape Room Scavenger Hunt. After a 50-minute drive from Floyd, we arrived at the Crest Hill Tearoom in Pulaski with a reservation to celebrate our friend Katherine’s birthday, tea party style. But the reservation got mixed up and was made for another Crest Hill Tearoom in […]
Go to the beach Wear purple Sit on a sidewalk Skip to the mailbox Dance to Steve Winwood’s Higher Love Rub a genie’s lamp Buy postage stamps with tulips on them Color in your doodles with highlighter pens Dream about roses Press four-leaf clovers Kiss and tell the whole truth _____________Colleen Redman / Poets and […]
1. The bounce houses at last week’s Floyd Small Town Summer in the park were mostly empty because of this. 2. It was a Snow of Suds Storm. 3. And now I can’t get the song Splish Splash I Was Taking a Bath out of my head, even though it’s as silly as the One-Eyed […]
What is motherhood after decades of an overflow of activities, after children become adults? For Katherine Chantal, what’s next has been a personal journey of self-nurturing, of following a thread, the cords of birth, a lineage. It’s been navigating soulful aging without a map, but with curiosity and discovery. In her latest book, Streaming from […]
That’s what the Old Time music player told the audience at the end of his band’s set in the Community Building at the 18th annual Meadows of Dan Folk Festival. He was talking about us, ten poets ready to take the Open Mic stage to read poetry in tribute to the Mountain at Lovers Leap, […]
It was a Floyd Small Town Summer dance party in Lineberry Park. All the dancers warmed up to the inventive pan drum compositions of Jonathan Scales with the Fourchestra. It was a beautiful summer evening and a joyous reunion of friends. More dancers joined in to move to the soulful grooves of Hoppie and the […]
Plant a Rose of Sharon Wear a flower in your hair Put sun-dried tomatoes and raisins in your pasta Put lavender on your pillow case Play your favorite Lou Reed song Buy a silk nightshirt from Ebay Ponder the wild blue yonder Listen to children play ____________________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. The empty backside of insurance policies makes good printer paper. 2. Quantum Physics is the LSD of science, a real mind blower. 3. Joe to Colleen: Thanks for being so nice to me lately, like for the past 35 years. 4. We watched the meteor shower at 4 a.m. Sunday morning. It was a […]
-For Joe I walked through my school days with my eyes open waiting for the spell of sleep to be broken When Snow White was left out in the cold and everyone thought the emperor wore clothes I left the breadcrumbs I ate the apple I kissed the frog and sewed a shadow without pricking […]
1. Peek-a-boo or cuckoo? 2. Laugh-In or Hollywood Squares? 3. When it rains, it knocks my corn over. 4. Since my brother and wife have been here, I haven’t been working in the garden, so my fingernails are clean for the first time all summer. 5. Mabry Mill in Floyd County is one of the […]
My brother Joey and his wife Nancy were just in town for a visit. We had 3 full days to hit all the iconic places in Floyd that both tourists and locals alike are known to love. Mabry Mill is one of the most photographed sites in the U.S. I remember when the grist mill […]
