Springhouse students shared talks and slide shows with an enthusiastic audience for Community Presentation Night 2024. Presentations topics outlined some of the school’s features and included talks on school trips, screen printing in the school Print Shop, community dance, mentoring, and land stewardship. Senior Capstone Presentations included reviews of school highlights, sharings of personal growth […]
1. Jerry Seinfeld’s Three Keys to a Successful Life: transcendental meditation, lifting weights and expresso 2. A new take on ‘you should get our head examined’ – A brain MRI. 3. Our brains function more like computer algorithms than we think. The more we think about something, the more our brains give us more of […]
Fairy Godmother’s Midnight and the Art of Archetype is the newest installment in the Soulful Aging poetry reading tour that Katherine Chantal and Colleen Redman have been doing since the winter of 2022 at various regional venues. They will be presenting this latest call-and-response reading at the Little River Poetry Festival (On the Water Outfitters […]
“It’s hard to talk to trees. We’re not big on chit chat. That’s not to say we can’t do amazing things, things you’ll probably never do. Cradle downy owlets. Steady flimsy tree forts. Photosynthesize. But talk to people? Not so much.” – From Wishtree by Katherine Applegate -The following first appeared in The Floyd Press […]
Late Fee Like an unpaid bill I’ll dig deep to pay The empty page is a final notice Enticement Multi-flora rose hovers like an overprotective mother It fills the yard with a thorny love with a fragrance that belies its encroachment Unconditional Love I love the red cardinal but not its behavior […]
1. If you can’t celebrate your triple goddess May birthday with your two friends because your recovering from dental surgery and one of the goddesses lives in Maine, you might have a small house party and share your gourmet carrot cake with family. 2. You might have live music. 3. I celebrated my birthday with […]
-The following was written by Judith Stevens, Little River Poetry Festival co-founder, pictured on the right with fellow co-founder Jack Callan and first appeared in The Floyd Press on 5/16/24 Who could have guessed 9 years ago that Floyd Festival co-founder, Jack Callan, formerly of Norfolk, Virginia, would be living on the side of a […]
You sat with me for hours when I was on a medicine journey but not when I had 46 stitches in my mouth not when I kept a stainless bowl by my bed because the nausea was that bad My mother delivered tea and toast on the floor by the couch when I was sick […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 16, 2024 Dubbed Floydfest Horizon, the 2024 festival is off to a good start, after taking a year off to develop the festival’s new Floyd County property at 5826 Floyd Highway North in Check. Set to take place on July 24 -28, Floydfest 24 will […]
1. “We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.” – Ursula Le guin From the Preface to “Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014” 2. Peony rhymes with Poetry: They bulge then pop / like bread in the […]
I could barely see anything with the naked eye up at The Saddle last night. A photographer told me to point my camera towards places where the sky is light, and that’s what I did. I caught a flash of red, but most of my pictures were black, until I got home, sent them to […]
Transparent and vital Water runs deep It goes where it wants to and doesn’t flow upstream It cools the burn and cleans the wound It moves around obstacles and comes full circle Shapeless It takes shape It carries its own weight First medicine First mirror Bearer of life Be more like water Follow your nature […]
