1. My new line to get people off their phones: Talk to each other like it’s 1995. 2. My favorite new conspiracy theory: Everything’s gonna be all right. – Seen on Facebook 3. Poets tend to wear berets but they should wear newsboy caps, since they are the world’s town criers. 4. It was a […]
-The following pictures appeared in The Floyd Press on November 30, 2023 – I knew we were in trouble when I counted four Grinches in the Floyd Christmas Parade this year. The route was also well represented with Kazim Shriner Clowns who were bound to get in a little trouble. And some clowns were grinches. […]
I wrote this poem while on hold for a bureaucrat with a Lynyrd Skynyrd instrumental playing in the background A Simple Man irony for today’s red tape reality of phone menu roulette I wrote this poem knowing that with one wrong button press my connection could be cut and the ‘no more than 20 minutes […]
1. Winter Star- A light in the dark / saves what is lost / anoints the silent night / when the paths of ages cross / When closed hearts open / and wise ways are taken / alignments are blessed / in the age of Aquarius 2. “We are in a birthing canal and will […]
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Katie Wells’s one woman show, Love Letters to Humanity: A Performance of Conscious Dance Theatre, drew sell-out crowds Friday and Saturday at the Floyd Center for the Arts. It was a fundraiser for InStill Mindfulness, a local non-profit dedicated to cultivating a mindful world for all with kindness, compassion, and caring through education, action. It’s hard […]
1. Over the weekend, Joe went camping with a group of inner city kids, and I went to the Taubman Museum to see an immersion art installation. That says a lot about us. 2. The Taubman show exhibit I saw was the work of Caledonia Curry, aka Swoon, a street artist and contemporary of Banksy. […]
In order to come fully to the encounter with whatever gives ultimate meaning, in order to wrestle with the angel, one must be a free agent, not defined by another, or by cultural imperatives. – Marilyn Sewell, Cries of the Spirit These days, I’ve really been living in my home. Day after day, I […]
It takes two How many are you? Mirror mirror. There’s a lot of us in here. Swoon, aka Caledonia Curry, is an artist and an installation exhibit at the Taubman Museum. Swoon is a printmaker, paper cutter, screen printer, large scale relief creator and street artist with a focus on human connection, social practice and […]
Moon under my pillow is a princess’s pea I cross my heart and hope to dream _________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. I remember asking my parents as they were aging, ‘what do you do all day?’ Now I ask myself. I don’t buy into the elder years being the best time of life. It has its pluses but also has a lot of loss. Instead of crossing things I want to do off my bucket […]
Poets rhyme sugar / with teacup and saucer / They alliterate morning / with mug Linda Fallon, who was a long-time board president for the Floyd Center for the Arts, had the idea for a poetry tea to benefit the Center after attending a 2018 poetry tea party at Fiddlesticks Farm where Katherine Chantal, Chelsea […]
