-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 25, 2024. The Partnership for Floyd celebrated their 20th year of community service following Saturday’s Appalachian Species Giant Puppet parade for Earth Day. From the stage at the Warren G. Lineberry Park, founding member Kamala Bauers spoke to the attending crowd about the Partnership, a […]
And here we are living the pub life: good friends, good brew and good music to boot. I went for the Buffalo Mountain Brewery couches, to meet up with my sweet friend Sudha (who came with her friend Doris) and to hear the Yardweez‘s rocking folk and songwriting, done mostly by Noah Broe. Noah has […]
Maybe when your gone my apron will turn up It’s been lost since you took the kitchen apart and put in new countertops Maybe when your gone I’ll dream of being lost I’ll drink wine right out of the bottle go to the wrong dentist and get tired of playing Scrabble Maybe I’ll buy myself […]
1. “The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that dialogue.” — Stanley Kunitz 2. I think of Taylor Swift as the Joni Mitchell of her time, influenced by the musical trends of today but with the same baring of the soul and […]
Alwyn Moss, my longtime dear friend, poet, animal rights activist, environmentalist, author, artist, Rudolf Steiner kindergarten teacher and more passed from this world two years ago on Earth Day Eve. In honor of her on Earth Day, I’m posting her poem “First Tree,” which was the only tree on the busy New York […]
It was a marathon dance party with Dead Reckoning at Dogtown last night. I danced the whole 2 set show, thanks to my friends who danced beside me and whose energy held me up. Even the Drum/Space. The knowing smiles on everyone’s faces, the sing-alongs and the energy raised helped me go past my regular […]
1.Dogwood petals: My kind of snow white. 2. Titles for past spring posts over my 19 years of blogging have included: Another Word for Spring is Boing!, The Swing of Spring, Sure Thing Spring, Hello Yellow, A Budding Talent, Thursday’s Spring Roll, Spring Chickens and I Think I’ll Call Spring “Cha-ching!” Or Maybe Just “Bling.” […]
The Partnership for Floyd will be celebrating 20 years of service to our community with a FREE ice cream social at the end of the Floyd Earth Day in the Park, April 20, 3 – 4 pm, following the Appalachian Species Giant Puppet Parade. – The following article first appeared (with small edits) in the […]
We got some good dancing in to Gote at Dogtown. Gote is a regional band with some names we are familiar with: John McBroom on vocals and guitar, Foster Burton on vocals and guitar, Jay Gladden on drums and Matt Leonard on guitar. They do mostly originals with some Grateful Dead flavor dropped in and […]
Moon empties the sun’s hot plate bite by bite it swallows the light Bit by bit it moves like a ship crossing the sun’s waves of blaze __________ Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
1. Scrabble is a practice of accepting reality and making the next best move you can with the letters you have to work with. 2. Every Scrabble board, like every day, is a blank slate when you start out. 3. The Next Thing You Go Out For: Do you want to go to it because […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 4, 2024 ‘What is a poem?’ That was the first question a Springhouse Community student asked at a class where students where gifted with copies of Artemis Journal, a Floyd-based yearly journal that features writers and artists from the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond. Artemis […]
