1. Mind full or Mindful? 2. I try to wrap my head around the mysterious nature of the universe: that nothing is permanent and nothing is destroyed and it all exists at once. These days, I brace myself for the worst and secretly believe in the best. 3. This is my favorite self-portrait taken at […]
1. This is the installation designed by Luke Haynes that serves as the entryway to COHAB.SPACE, a converted factory/warehouse space and campus in High Point, NC (1547 West English Road), with curated showrooms, art galleries, studios, a bar and an outdoor music event venue. 2. It was the semi-annual (April and October) High Point Furniture […]
1. The weeping willow came down in a storm and crashed the clay sculpture guy apart. 2. We were visiting our son Josh’s Pottery Compound in Marshall NC. Aka: The Copus Clay Campus. The Digs. The Land. 3. It’s all an amazing art installaton. Aka: The Led Crane Pot Spot. The Carolina Clay Place. 4. […]
1. “The bottom line is a circle,” says my Dharmacratic friend Will 2. Will’s late brother A’court referred to himself as a “butterfly mystic.” I called him the Lao Tzu of Floyd. See HERE. 3. I call this “Ingredients for an Enjoyable Afternoon in the Sun.” 4. Joe calls the below a “Handburger,” instead of […]
1. Aka High Five. 2. Our Easter Eggs were real. 3. Cinderella’s Lost Lady Slipper: If the shoe fits, wear it. If the song lifts, hear it. Don’t wait till midnight. 4. I was caught on April Fool’s day by this post from our local Arts and Education Center, The June Bug Center: After a […]
1. If the moon was a bloom, the clouds would be its petals. 2. The moon smokes clouds / by the sun’s stricken match / Stars rush like sparks / from her moody bowl of ash… Read The Night Stars the Moon in its entirety HERE. 3. I’m excited about the red house finches who […]
1. I want to call this ‘the plate is worth the price of admission,’ but there was no admission price. 2. The guy sitting next to me at the Brewery kept calling the band Redbud but it was Rosebud. 3. If you’re a dead head, you know the song before the lyrics start. I stopped […]
1. My Window is a Flat Planet: Clouds spill up / defying gravity / They melt away / like chances not taken / But some escape / and sail like boats / beyond the view / of accepted reality. 2 . Thoughts on a Practice: Sun and moon. Breakfast and dinner. The arts. I keep […]
1. A mystery person left these drawn hearts on my car. 2. Maybe they were praying that I’d go to a car wash. 3.With the dirt roads of country living, it looks like I just Let it Be too long. 4. Also, the picture sort of fits the paradox of praying for peace in these […]
1. But first the March mud. 2. The Shape of Truth: You know it when you see it / You hear it when you listen / The meaning transcends the rhyme / like the content of a person / speaks louder than their looks / Like the living heart can hear / what the ears […]
1. I went to cover an Author’s Talk at the library for a book titled The Black Belt. When I told Joe where I was going, he thought I was going to a martial arts event. 2. The term Black Belt is used the same way as the Bible Belt. It refers to concentrations of […]
1. Our Valentine time started with dancing to Dead Reckoning at Dogtown. The band played a lot of love songs: They Love Each Other, Turn on Your Lovelight and more. 2. I once asked Joe what song with the word ‘love” in the title comes to his mind first. He answered, “Love Me Do,” by […]
