I’m busy writing my TEDx talk (of sorts) about our TEDxFloyd talks for the local paper. In the meantime, here’s the latest from the primary TEDxFloyd event organizer Hari: The livestream is still there for ten days (I think). The videos (each talk separately) will be edited and loaded onto TEDx youtube channel–this is a [...]
~ The following is a selection of photos from a group that first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 25, 2013. NRV Master Gardener Coordinator, Wendy Silverman, presented an exhibit on identifying nutritional deficiencies in plants at the annual Earth Day Celebration, hosted by the Partnership for Floyd at the Floyd EcoVillage. Silverman said [...]
Last weekend our neighbors, Dennis and Suzi, invited Joe and I to attend a wildflower walk on their property. It was a gathering of a local Organic Gardening and Wild Foods group. It was a nice day and organic gardeners, foragers and others came out of the woodwork. About 40 people attended, including a couple [...]
I was wrong last week when I titled a blog entry Last Chance to Post Pictures of Snow. I was premature when I took the photo of the red-breasted nuthatch on icy tree branches down from my Facebook Timeline header and replaced it with bright spring flowers. The snowfall yesterday caught everyone off guard. I was [...]
I told my friend Katherine that I’d bring flowers to our neighborhood Poet Tea for Easter brunch, but my purple crocus was too short-stemmed and my daffodils hadn’t opened up yet. I considered buying an Easter lily at the grocery store. I grew up having lilies at Easter time, and they smell so good. But [...]
I can’t think of anything more fun than dancing to The Kind with others who love their music as much as I do. There is camaraderie on the dance floor and everywhere you look people are smiling, spinning and stomping, swaying and singing along. Some fans I only see at their concerts, but once the [...]
“If you wait long enough it will eventually come to Floyd.” That’s what I’ve been saying for years and it was never truer than when the Bread & Puppet Theater came to town this week. At the invitation of a Floyd activist, the 50-year-old traveling troupe made Dogtown’s Sun Music Hall one of the stops [...]
I’m pretty sure it was a Floyd first, a Mardi Gras inspired parade from the Gardner Funeral Home into downtown Floyd to mark the passing of someone well loved. There were beads, bells and feathers, and a trumpet playing “May the Saints go Marching” in honor of Tom, who grew up in New Orleans and [...]
A Floydian Prayer by Tom Ryan: Yeah, though I walk through the Valley of tie-dye and tofu I shall fear no evil for though I am in Floyd, I am not of Floyd. Thy art is with me, Thy grants & Thy tax subsidies comfort me. Mine is the kingdom & glory of slackers & [...]
It wasn’t your typical interview. Nothing with A’Court ever is. It wasn’t really an interview at all, but I did sit down with him after the meet-the-artist traffic slowed down. I asked about the apostrophe in his first name and the thought behind wearing tiger ears to the opening. He didn’t want to take himself [...]
These grinchy green Seuss style snacks are teasers to the photos and story I plan to post later in the week of the Young Actors Co-op new play: A Seussified Christmas Carol. I resisted eating one of these. See some video clips of the production below. The last one is my favorite. Look for more [...]
Speaking of dance, there were skirts for sale at the door, a $5 cover, a couple of new horns added to the band. I and my fellow dancers, ready for our sport at the dance floor starting line, began swaying to the sound of Richie Ursomarso’s guitar going off. If you look closely you can [...]
“Here we are now in Floyd Virginia” sang Leah Smith, who, with her sister Chloe, heads up the conscious raising musical act of Rising Appalachia. The sisters and their band (a past Floydfest favorite) performed at Dogtown’s Sun Hall Friday night to an animated crowd of fans, including a line of bouncing babies, which you [...]
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words when you don’t have time to write words. I spent the bulk of the weekend supporting an individual in foster care with Wall Residences and we enjoyed a couple of walks. HERE’S the soundtrack. Our World Tuesday
Post notes: Liam wouldn’t get off the chair. From a distance he was acting tough, but when the chickens got close he shouted “No, No!” You can read my 2005 WVTF radio essay titled “Life in the Rural Fast Lane” HERE. Things sure have changed in seven years since I wrote it. The fast lane [...]
The Golden Ticket benefit concert was a collaboration of Tommy Edwards’ Heart of Virginia, Joe Klein’s Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) and Grace McCutchan of the Black Water Loft coffee house. Conceived of by McCutchan after losing a loved-one to suicide, the goal of the event was to raise awareness about mental health. It featured [...]
It’s a tradition that’s been going on for at least a couple of decades. Every year I wear a different get-up but dance in the same spot on the dance floor, as if no time had passed. I’ve loved masquerading since I dressed as Huck Finn for Halloween when I was still in elementary school. [...]
“Who needs to eat when I’m so full of music?” That’s what I said to a friend on the way the reception spread following Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival’s inaugural concert at the Floyd EcoVillage’s new state of the (green) art Celebration Hall on Sunday. I don’t go to classical music (I’m a rock/folk fan [...]
