1. “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” – Carl Jung 2. Don’t poison earth’s apples / Don’t drop bombs on people / Don’t be fooled by a flag / or ruled by a fool / Thou shalt not oppress / or bear false witness / Let […]
1. “Nobody is illegal on stolen land.” Billie Eilish during her Grammy acceptance speech for Song of the Year (“Wildflower”). 2. I told Joe to put on a big log in the woodstove before we went to bed, and then we played THIS song. 3. In the case of the Led Zeppelin song, Big Log […]
1. I’m blogging without a net, meaning I have no spellcheck on my WordPress post page. 2. My poetry books, Packing a Suitcase for the Afterlife, Objects are Closer Than They Appear, Poems From the Dark Room and Mining the Gold of the Inner Life, are sold locally at The Book House (pictured here), as […]
1. “The world comes to an end and the world keeps on going. Life is a series of sinking ships but still people go sailing as if it hadn’t happened. Disaster strikes and people wake up the next morning and have breakfast.” Garrison Keillor 2. Exist and Exit about sums up life. 3. Older or […]
1. My New Year motto: 2026 and so much to fix. 2. Or: In one year and out the other. 3. We went to a soft opening at the Plum House Noodle Bar this weekend. The official opening is this Friday. Call 745-Plum for a reservation… Full story and photos at Floyd Times. 4. Purple […]
1. I often have no idea what I’m going to write for my 13 Thursday weekly round-up, but for me, every blog post starts with a good picture, like a meal starts with olive oil and an onion, and I go from there. 2. New Year’s Resolutions – I don’t want to announce them, hold […]
1. This could also be called The Gravity of the Grave. 2. One day my body / will fall like a star / I’ll burn like a poem on paper / I’ll radiate ember / and scatter like ash / Someone will make a wish. – From A Ticket Home 3. Like a bee buzzing […]
1. When I meditate I either see, hear or feel my TM mantra. It’s up or down, left or right, in or out. Sometimes it’s right there and other times I have to find it. 2. I’m a mandala in your eye / a sunflower dancing / on a black scrying mirror / where the […]
1. It was a Double Header. We got 3-4 inches of snow and then 4+ more a couple of days later. 2. Some might call it Double Trouble. 3. A Double Header could also refer to the fact that I covered two stories this weekend for the Floyd Times. One was the 31st annual Winterfest, […]
1. “The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness.” Bruce Lee 2. I might finish a crossword puzzle if a lucky break outweights the urge for giving up, and if I can resist looking up the answers in the back of the book. 3. Carl Jung viewed “luck” not as random chance, but as synchronicity, […]
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 […]
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 […]
