1. Virginia is for Lovers and Floyd is for Dancers! See HERE. 2. Siri pronounces Oddf3llas (a Floyd’s restaurant) “Oddthreefellas” 3. The first taste of blueberries picked from the garden, the first splashed dunk in the Country Club pool. Meals on the porch. Everyday an outside tea party attended in sundress style. The lawn chairs […]
1. “We’re here to be part of the great song and we don’t even have to know the song. We just have to know our note.” – Rumi 2. Friday night in Floyd: We met a family from France and kids were break dancing on the floor. See HERE. 3. THIS is my guru reading […]
1. What if every memory of the past was really a premonition of the future? -After watching the movie Arrival 2. My Asheville Potter son calls the wild clay display pictured below “The Petting Zoo.” 3. Right now, he’s teaching student potters at Penland School of Crafts. He’s got them digging wild clay and being […]
1. No, the picture above, taken at the Little River Poetry Festival, is not a poetry prompt or even a prop. It’s a healing treatment that the festival co-founder, Judith, is demonstrating to the group. The q-tips were first dipped in Glycothymoline, which Edgar Cayce recommended for reducing mucous and alkalizing the body. Much easier than […]
1. I don’t know how it took me this long to discover antipoetry. 2. “Antipoetry mirrors poetry, not as its adversary but as its perfect compliment … it is as opposite, complete and interdependent as the shape left behind in the fabric where the garment has been cut out,” says Chilean antipoet Nicancor Parra’s anti-translator […]
1. Advice to young writers: Plug away. Be disciplined and write it down. Listen for the authority of the inner voice that is different than regular thinking. Don’t quit your day job. 2. Each mark is a dream / that tells more than one truth / and believes in the existence / of the next […]
1. If there’s an umbrella at an event, I’ll find it. In this case the event was Floyd’s 2107 high school graduation. Story and photos coming in the Floyd Press this week. 2. How long will it take for your trash to decompose after you’re gone? Some things you toss in the trash will have […]
1. Today I learned that sparrows don’t care who is watching but pretty birds hide from view. 2. I took the photos in this post from inside my birdwatcher’s box that the boys made for me. I can get in and out from the back and there’s a stool inside to sit on. Photos are […]
1. “We’re not here to do the big things. We’re here to do what we can.” – Nikki Giovanni, speaking at the 2017 Artemis literary journal launch. 2. Nikki and I have a few things in common, such as: We both love Bonnie Raitt. We both have had a seizure. We are not that friendly […]
1. When we do what we were made to and follow it to a completion, when we offer our work as a way to touch others, it opens the way for more. 2. “Sometimes the line will agree with the sentence and sometimes the sentence will argue with the line.” Claudia Emerson 3. The Pope gives […]
1. She wanted her ex-husband to die with a happy thought, so she told him Trump had been impeached. More HERE. 2. I can’t help but wonder what I could do with all the time I spend waiting for my credit card chip to go through or waiting for my electric hair curler to curl. […]
1. Everybody looks better with flowers, even Steve Bannon. See HERE. 2. The first protest in space just happened, and it was against Donald Trump. Thanks to the Autonomous Space Agency Network (yes that’s NASA backwards). The team printed out a giant tweet from their own Twitter account, which read “Look at That, You Son of […]
