“I’m sittin’ here on the Group W bench ’cause you want to know if I’m moral enough to join the Army—burn women, kids, houses and villages—after bein’ a litterbug.” The final part of the song is an encouragement for the listeners to sing along, to resist the draft, and to end war. -from Alice’s Restaurant, performed at […]
Everybody wanted to get their picture taken with two week old Pearl. Or touch Cara’s pregnant belly. Throughout the ‘90s many Floyd women gathered each summer at the Indian Valley Retreat Center for Women’s Wellness Week – a woman’s retreat focused on ceremony, making art, the healing arts and self discovery. WWW was founded by […]
We sang four birthday songs to Alwyn for her 90th birthday, celebrated on a sunny November afternoon in her home at Warm Hearth Village, a local retirement community. There were a couple of deliveries of flowers, and friends, some of whom I hadn’t seen since her 85th, filled her living room and kitchen, and spilled […]
Even better than sporting a leopard-skin pill-box hat is wearing leopard ears. Cat ears have been been a theme this Halloween and one of my favorite forms of self-expressive style. That’s my friend Jayn as a bird-brained farmer. Now those are some hats! Is that caveman wearing my skirt? Check out Wendy’s skunk tail […]
At the memorial celebration for Ruth Bason, held at the Floyd Eco-Village, we changed the words to John Denver’s song and sang it like a Floyd anthem. Life passage ceremonialist Katherine Chantal gave words to what everyone in the room knew: Ruth has been at the top of the list for Floyd legends for over […]
-Coming Soon ‘Where I’m From’ Poetry at Springhouse Community School ________________Shadow Shot Sunday
The art of blessing mother and baby with meditation and essential oils with the crowning of wildflowers and jewels with circle songs, ancestral invocations and a foot bath of petals and herbs with sisters, aunties, mothers and grandmothers weaving poetry and story with burning sage and fairy blessings with feasting and gifting and sharing from the heart Amy Sunshine, mother […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 8, 2016. About 30 people gathered at June Bug Center last Thursday evening to participate in a prayer circle for Kyla Robbins, who is on an organ donation list and waiting for a heart transplant at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC. It was an […]
Kids were called to come onstage and help the Abbey Road Live band sing Yellow Submarine at their Beatles tribute concert Saturday night at Chantilly Farm. Our grandsons Bryce and Liam were in their glory because the song is a family favorite. Going on stage was an unexpected thrill. Watch how Bryce (center) and our […]
I covered the inaugural Little River Poetry Festival in Floyd this weekend and was completely won over. I’m still feeling the goose bumps and the earth shaking from the featured poet readings. Thanks to all the poets who came and shared their talent with Floyd! Read more about The Little River Poetry Festival HERE and […]
AND THEN THIS HAPPENS ___________Shadow Shot Sunday
Project Presentation Night for Springhouse Community School’s (SCS) final semester of the 2015/2016 school year was presented on May 19th to an enthusiastic crowd. Family and community members engaged with students in question and answers and applauded individual presentations, which were conducted by the students through demonstrations, oral reports, performances and slide show presentations. Located […]
