It involved sun and birdsong, lilacs and a single purple iris. Joe was gone before I woke up, to a meditation retreat in town. When I saw the card and presents he left for me on the table, I thought, ‘I just might like presents wrapped more than I like them open.’ The mystery and […]
1. I now have a folder on my desktop titled “Bryce Gabriel.” 2. He was born May 14, 2008 at 2:45 a.m. weighing a whopping nine pounds and a couple of ounces, just like his dad, Dylan, did when he was born in 1982. 3. I used up all the memory space on my camera […]
1. The moon is poetry to the sun’s prose, shining indirectly but penetrating deeply. 2. Why do so many writers hold their hand up to the side of their face in their book jacket photos? Have you ever posed like that in the mirror just to see how it looks? 3. Comment to my blog […]
I’m a mandala in your eye a sunflower dancing on a black scrying mirror where the sun and moon are lovers
1. Downtown Floyd 2. Upside Down Floyd 3. Down to Earth 4. Downright cute 1. Changes in downtown Floyd: Joe at the new sitting wall with the new timber framed public bathroom building in the background. 2. Someone was having fun with the window at the renovation for the Village Square. See another funny scene […]
The following was published in The Floyd Press on May 15, 2008. The rain didn’t deter garden lovers from participating in the Mother’s Day Farm Tour at Full Circle and Five Penny Farms in Floyd this past Sunday. Traffic up and down the long dirt driveway into Full Circle Farm for the open house event […]
Friend: Colleen, has the baby come yet? Me: No, but they’re coming up to Floyd today, so I’ll get to see the belly. My son Dylan, his wife Alexis, and her daughter Kaylee treated me to lunch for Mother’s Day. After lunch, we had tea and coffee at the Blackwater Loft (pictured above), followed by […]
~ The following was published in the Floyd Press on May 1, 2008. Rosemary Wyman’s business, New Day, has been providing home health care and support to individuals and their families since 2005. The business is a natural extension of a life long interest of Wyman’s. “Whenever I was asked what I wanted to be […]
1. For a small window of time in the spring, three blooms converge in symphony of color in the corner of my yard. 2. Dogwood, azalea, and baby irises come in one after the other, and for a week or two they co-exist together like the colorful layered fruit of an English trifle. 3. I […]
1. I was recently typing the name of my book of poems, Muses Like Moonlight, and typed “Mooses Like Moonlight” by mistake. 2. Written on the inside on my latest notebook: Note to self – in writing. 3. I can understand why my youtube video of the Hokie Wave Cheer at the Dave Matthews and […]
1. A front row seat at the First Friday Irish Night Jam at Oddfellas Cantina. 2. Lucy Goldman Singing Dougie Mclean’s “Ready for the Storm.” Tina Liza Jones (on the left) was strumming an unusual guitar; I think it was THIS. 3. Several played fiddle and one played a harp. I wish someone in the […]
My introduction into the world of archetypes came when I was a girl by way of fairytales and nursery rhymes. To this day Rumplestilskin and the Snow Queen repeatedly show up in my poetry. When I first saw the kiln at the university where my potter son was a student, memories were stirred of Hansel […]
