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Monthly Archives: June 2019

BOOKENDS: Sowing Seeds

I am having a spurt of organizational drive this week, and so I’m getting around to doing a better job of books book keeping, of distributing my books beyond Floyd, and getting back in motion not just with existing books but also and especially for the “new one” still in digital and embryonic form only. […]

Posted byfredJune 20, 2019June 20, 2019Posted inThe Writing Life1 Comment on BOOKENDS: Sowing Seeds

Music, Mountains and Big Trees

Back in December, I was offered the opportunity to contribute a “500-700 word article on Southwest Virginia’s outdoors or nature” by the Crooked Road folks. It now appears (on page 23) in the program guide for next week’s Mountains of Music regional celebration. The topic I chose (because Jane Cundiff and I had been talking […]

Posted byfredJune 4, 2019June 4, 2019Posted inculture, Essay, Outdoors2 Comments on Music, Mountains and Big Trees

Global Syn-WHAT?

The phrase “global syndemic” immediately drew my sustained attention when it first appeared as a result of an initiative and study produced by the science journal Lancet in January of this year. tldr: Scroll down to the 3 minute video explanation. Most folks know PANdemic as an outbreak of illness that brings about large-scale loss […]

Posted byfredJune 3, 2019June 3, 2019Posted inActivism, earthcare, educationLeave a comment on Global Syn-WHAT?

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