All are Invited to Floyd Arts Dialogue to Discuss: What Role Does Art Play in STEM? STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. There has been much recent debate in educational circles from elementary to graduate levels to explore ways…
Personally, I have not been convinced that our lives are influenced by planetary alignment or other celestial events. But in the case of the “Blood Moons” of 2015, the heavens might indirectly with humanity’s help bring about earthly events that…
I know how anxious you have all been during the silence at Fragments since last week, but want to assure you that all is quiet on the western front, and I come back from my adventures in NY state to…
Every civilization since the Stone Age has had a story about itself–to explain where the world and mankind and nature came from, what the future would hold and how to navigate safely and as comfortably as possible towards that future.…
The illustrious US Congress is (again) being used as a blunt instrument against their constituents, wielded (again) by Big (fill-in-the-blank) In this case, Big Ag. I’m not perhaps as alarmed by the health risks of foods whose genes were modified…
Source: Walmart targets climate-smart suppliers Talking the talk, should small-holders worry they’ll be invisible to the biggest of Big Box Agriculture? [su_quote]Courting controversy? Not everyone is cheering these efforts, however. As Walmart’s influence on agriculture grows, the company’s critics worry…
Yes, the official Earth Day was Wednesday, April 22. We’re just being very intentional and making the day accessible to working parents and their children, farmers and out-of-town visitors. Below are the details. See you there! [su_divider top=”no”] Floyd Virginia…
I was remembering recently an adult object lesson one of my parents taught me long ago. In the way of many moral lessons we learn as children, the physiological facts of the tale are flawed but the point is nevertheless…
I pulled out my trifold scrap paper scratch pad that is always with me. The Earth had just moved under my feet in the middle of a church service, and I had to take note. What had happened is that,…
We just celebrated, at Thanksgiving, our fifteenth year of living in the Floyd County outback. We are isolated, sequestered, cloistered in this deep valley and there is good in that separation and solitude. Humans need and seek out just this…
“Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule. ” Friedrich Nietzsche This text appears on a refrigerator magnet on our major appliance. It happens to be sitting on my desk just now…
“The world is too much with us, late and soon. Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Little we see in nature that is ours. We have given our hearts away…” Wordsworth If the Earth was a conscious being…
I’m reminded of the well-known cartoon showing the primordial ooze evolving ever upward. It becomes a salamander that becomes an ape that becomes a caveman who becomes a modern man in the age of science. As of the last election, we can now…
It has not been all that long ago that I noted the phrase for the first time. What did she just say? And once having heard it, it pops up constantly at every turn. And it is driving me crazy(er).…