I used to dream of flying and then falling I marveled that I never hit bottom and never died Now I dream that I wake up driving I can’t see the road and don’t know where I’m going Sometimes I’m driving in a city down residential streets with cars parked on either side and an […]
1. I got quoted on Facebook on a reader’s page: Trump is now saying that inflation is not a big deal and that the biggest concern among Americans is “people coming in from mental institutions.” I think he doesn’t know what the term “asylum seeker” means. 2. YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WARDROBE […]
Is pardoning violent rioters who desecrated the Capital and assaulted and injured police the way to make America great? What about denying an election loss, refusing a peaceful transfer of power and scheming to overturn the election in order to retain power? What about Trump’s intention to “expand our territories?” Are we in the colonial […]
You can immerse yourself in the magical fantasy world of Narnia at the June Bug Center’s black box theater today, Saturday January 25 and tomorrow at 2:00. The live performance will also be presented next Friday January 31st at 7:00, Saturday at 2:00 and 7:00 and Sunday at 2:00. A cast of young actors with […]
Except for the dang squirrel who drives away the finches steals from the cardinals and blocks the titmouses I’m watching the robber the same time our (supposed) leader steals our country before our eyes He does as he pleases degrades checks and balances desecrates the Constitution like the Capital on January 6th As the news […]
1. A New Game in Town same winner is HERE. 2. I danced to “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” with Virginia Electric Saturday night at Dogtown, but I never got around to taking any pictures. 3. I push on in spite of / the crushed shell I see / with innards strewn […]
Wordless Wednesday
We look at our own reflection more when we’re insecure and the more we don’t like what we see the more we look But sometimes the mirror plays tricks and the persona fades to black Sometimes the truth is reversed and the looking glass looks back Ducklings don’t see themselves as swans and Queens talk […]
1. Aka January Juncos. 2. Even Bob Dylan has a Christmas album. Now I have a Christmas poem HERE. 3. If you want more social life go to a grocery store before a snowstorm. 4. Have you RED this? 5. The Belltone hearing-aid people are predatory with their phone calls and mailings that try to […]
________Thirteen Thursday
-The following 2024 review was done by excerpting the first few lines in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January: In my experience, practices and platitudes that have once served have tended to fall away over time. Sun and moon. Breakfast […]
-The following first appeared in the Floyd Press on December 26, 2024. The “Nest of Singing Birds” ballad singers lost their town and their monthly Appalachian Ballad Swap venue when the historic town of Marshall in Madison County, NC, floated away with the flood of Hurricane Helene, and the Old Marshall Jail Hotel & Restaurant […]
