1. Yoga Jam restores my faith in humanity. 2. If you drop your bag Friday at Yoga Jam, it will still be where you dropped it on Saturday. It’s that safe of a family place. 3. Caught in the dance act HERE. 4. This is my kind of pot 5. We had friends in town […]
1. How Did a Grasshopper End Up Trapped in a Vincent van Gogh Painting? New research offers insights on “Olive Trees” (1889), including the story of the hapless insect trapped on its thickly painted surface. The insect, which is barely visible to the naked eye, was probably dead by the time it landed on van […]
1. The older I get, the more I talk aloud to myself, but it recently occurred to me that the older I get the more loved ones I have that have passed on, so maybe I’m talking to them. 2. “I’m not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We […]
1. The truth slept but had a dream, a causality count of a world changed. 2. A poem is a dream that’s willed into being / A dream just shows up and writes itself / When dreams are absent / a poem can be imagined / When pens are inkless / a dream spells it […]
1. You might be looking at the couple making out in the center of this video clip, but I’m looking just to the right of that, at my husband Joe (in the blue shirt) dancing. 2. It was a Roanoke block party actually with the block blocked off in honor of Jerry Garcia’s birthday. 3. […]
1. Sometimes my social life amounts to walking to the mailbox and seeing and talking to friends who are on their way to my mechanic neighbor to get their cars fixed. 2. Other times it comes out of the blue, maybe while passing other boaters from a canoe. 3. Me to Joe: Do you know […]
1. Overheard from a stage at Floydfest: “Some people say the happiest place is Disney World but I think it’s Floydfest.” 2. Off the record or off the chart? 3. It was a Space Odyssey themed festival and this rain gear seemed to fit the theme. 4. “Well, you better lock your doors, turn on […]
1. We’re going to summer camp! Aka Floydfest. 2. I LOVE our new LOVE mural in Floyd. 3. “While some issues are problems with a definite answer, the more challenging issues are polarities — situations in which both sides have benefits and drawbacks. Individuals who can distinguish between a problem to solve and a polarity […]
1. I tell time in summer by what flower is in bloom. 2. Mushroom omelets. A crossword puzzle to solve. Tracking bats that sleep between cabin logs. Spraying lilies with deer deterrent. Stillness is broken with a windchime song. Birds sing in stereo like sopranos and chorus. Hens cluck and brag about their newly laid […]
1. Believe it or not, these are the alpha hens in our flock. 2. I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but hens take dirt baths. They roll around and get their feathers dusted in dirt and then shake it off. 3. I call the below picture: My sister loves Chantal coffee. 4. Parkway Pink – By […]
1. Last Thursday Kim, who blogs at In My Words, wrote about a thrift shop that literally sells unclaimed baggage items HERE. 2. Another blogger wrote about finding a dyson vacuum at a thrift shop for $25 and said it was the best vacuum cleaner out there. I commented that I would try to remember […]
1. I call the below picture “the cap capture.” 2. I told my train conductor nephew David that he was a “trained train conductor” and he answered, “I’m getting my life on track.” 3. While at the Cascades Waterfall, my sisters and I found a button on the ground, which everyone in my family knows […]
