-The following first appeared at Floyd Times on November 24, 2025. The Floyd County Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner, Silent Auction and Awards Ceremony at the Floyd EcoVillage Event Center Tuesday evening saw record attendance. “We have over 140 attending and over 80 Silent Auction items,” said Kathy Fett, the Chamber’s Executive Director. Attendees included […]
1.“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” – Elliott Erwitt 2. The best part of watching Ken Burns’ American Revolution on PBS is the artwork. 3. I could let Andrea Gibson’s poetry inspire me or I could let it make me stop writing poetry because […]
-The following first appeared in Floyd Times on October 31, 2025. Be Well Now, a nonprofit organization that provides Psychotherapy, Professional Development and Mindfulness Retreats, hosted an open-house and a ribbon cutting on October 23rd at their therapy offices, located at the Floyd EcoVillage, 188 Ecovillage Trail SE. Following a ribbon cutting ceremony with members […]
I’ll be a muse in the afterlife I’ll live on the internet You can look me up and read all about it I’ll leave cameos on YouTube videos I’ll leave traces on searches and poems on the cloud _____Colleen Redman / dVerse Poets Pub / Poets and Storytellers United
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. – Photos 1. Hollywood 2. White House 3. Abby Road, London 4. Women’s March 2017 Floyd VA 5. D.C. art museum. 6. Plymouth Massachusetts 7. Floydfest 8. Monet’s Garden, France 9. My son Josh Copus’ Clay Compound 10. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors […]
The latest Building Community Brick Project at my son Josh Copus’s Old Marshall Jail Hotel began in late September and ran until Saturday of this weekend when the project’s 4,000 goal was met. The Old Marshall Jail, a boutique art hotel and restaurant along the French Broad River in Marshall NC, is itself a reflection […]
–The following was first published in Floyd Times on November 12, 2025 Parade attendees lined the streets of downtown for Sunday’s annual Veteran’s Day Parade. They applauded, cheered and held thumbs up as local Veterans passed by. Alongside Veterans, the procession included Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, The Floyd County High School Marching Band, motorcycles, […]
1.Quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) said, “The total number of minds in the universe is one” and that a universal Mind accounts for everything, and our individual minds are not unique but rather like the reflected light from prisms. More HERE. 2. Dream: She had a woman hidden in her house. She could hear her […]
From the South Main Café to The Pine Tavern, and now Dogtown Roadhouse. We’ve been following The KIND since 1988, and it never ceases to be our happy place. It’s a sing-along dance-together Grateful Dead party with all the right ingredients. Great music, lights, jams, atmosphere and community. We drop our burdens and lose our […]
1. That was the name of my “Halloween Party at the historic Epperly Mill” Facebook album. 2. “A handsome devil” is an idiom used to describe a charmingly attractive man who may have a mischievous or playfully roguish quality. It is typically used in a lighthearted or flirtatious way to comment on a man’s good […]
-The following was first published at Floyd Times on October 28, 2025 A group of approximately 25 people gathered at the Jacksonville Cemetery gazebo on Saturday (Oct. 18) to tour the old part of the cemetery with Floyd Historical Society president Gino Williams. When the town was formed in 1832, the first cemetery in the […]
The following was first published in Floyd Times on October 29, 2025. “She needs no introduction!” announced Karen Baker, Floyd County Democratic Committee Chair, as candidate for Governor of Virginia Abigal Spanberger took the Event Center stage at Floyd EcoVillage. The crowd of nearly 200 citizens rose from their seats, cheered and waved flags of […]
