Category Education

On Beholding

It’s a lovely word: beholding. It expresses seeing beyond the mere perception of light and color, comprehending the deeper realities of the thing seen. It obliges the beholder to a deeper level of discernment than the casual onlooker. It is…

Humankind: a Course Correction is Possible

The last movie of the SustainFloyd spring film series will come from  Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything.” Doors open at the Floyd Country Store at 6:00 on May 11 for the potluck (bring your own plates and utensils please) and the…

Floyd Experience: Being Local Being Real

Today is the final full day before 25 St Joseph’s University students leave Floyd for Philly. We don’t know what kind of debriefing they will be involved in when they get back. We are not sure that any of their stories from…

A Conversation with Patrick Holden

Last night at the Floyd EcoVillage Celebration Hall the Floyd community in all its diversity showed up. We stood as a small subset of the  world-community addressing, through Patrick Holden’s long advocacy, the issues of creation-care, of food justice and change…

Spreading Seeds a Fur Piece

I’ve posted similarly in the past about my utter amazement at the number of local plants that have the potential to have their seeds carried literally miles away from the parent plant by the fur and feathers of animals; or…

Stuck On You: Botanically Speaking

I had thought to put together a blog post on the Green Kingdom’s nefarious ways of spreading its seeds by way of animal fur. We have an exemplary observatory of that phenomenon in the neighbor’s woolly dog Feather that spends…

Last Call for Wildflowers

The spring flowering plants tend to get way more of the attention than those in any other season. And there is no great surprise in this. In spring we have waited across the dull, dreary monochrome months from November to…

Goose Creek Afield: Sign Up Now!

We’re good to go now to let folks know about this nature-outdoor event happening just outside my front door in September. Come walk the trails from which so many stories and images have come to Fragments over the past thirteen…