“You spend the first part of your life collecting things and the second half getting rid of them.” Isabel Allende I’ve always been a documenter. I have dozens and dozens of photo albums that I started keeping in the ‘70s. Most are the bulky magnetic self-stick 3-ring albums, but once they collected and started to […]
I don’t remember exactly what Dead Reckoning drummer George Penn was saying to the crowd but I know this is a front-page picture. I do remember his enthusiasm and the energy and love shared by the musicians and dancers. We danced amongst friends and next to a fireman from Nelson County, who came specifically to […]
-The following 2021 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – Here we snow again: Remember when masks were for winter weather and practically no one worked from home? Remember […]
And dancing in the New Year! Here’s to you! In 2022!
Or should I say ‘unwrap?’ There’s always a family Christmas album cover shoot. This year we got a little wigged out. Some learned to play backgammon. I’m officially part of a Backgammon family now (outnumbered), which doesn’t help me much as a Scrabble player. I didn’t get a Scrabble game but I did get an […]
Somebody had a birthday. But it wasn’t us. Somebody played Prince. Twice. Somebody was flatfooting. While others were rocking steady with Doby at Dogtown. And loitering downtown a bit before heading home for an early night and early morning hunt.
Music is a big part of my life and I’m happy that we have such good music in Floyd and so many options to hear it. Not to mention craft beer and some that is Floyd made. I’m all about good songwriting and those unique deliveries. Clay Blevins played a rich variety of songs at […]
Thanksgiving takes a little teamwork. Our neighborhood Thanksgivings at Zephyr Farm go back to the late ‘80s. Thanks to the mother Gaia. Thanks for the father sun. Thanks for living in the garden where the mother and father are one. We love our bread. We love our butter. But most of all we love each […]
It’s sounds like a bee buzzing. It can chase you. Or take your picture. It can go fast or slow, high or low. What does the drone know? For good or bad, we’ve come a long way from flying paper airplanes like we did back in the day. ______Our World Tuesday
I was late for the tea party, the last one there, a wonderland setting for poetry and sharing. “You have the magic cup. No one else chose it,” said the host. My eyes widened when I saw the cup and saucer with a royal golden design. That would have been magic enough for me, especially […]
On Saturday, we hiked the 6.6-miles to-and-from the Great Channels, a mountain entombed maze of 400 million-year-old sandstone outcroppings and caverns, likely formed from permafrost and ice wedging during the last ice age that split large seams of rocks apart. I had just heard about the Channels from a Floyd friend a few days before […]
“We’re not going to have any candles because we don’t blow out candles during Covid,” Simone said as she presented Alwyn with her strawberry topped birthday cake celebrating her 95th birthday. There were four different “happy birthday” songs sung to her, beginning with one from her Goddaughter Cambria who drove from NC for the celebration. […]
