Blogging without a Net
This spaghetti might not stick to the proverbial wall, but I’m slinging it anyway. And I’m telling anybody that’ll listen. Old dog: new tricks? So often at Fragments, the image has been the story; the memory; the point of the…
Category Home and Hearth
On Short Shelf Life
Had coffee with a friend recently–a few years my senior–who showed me a picture on his phone. I recognized it as a raven. He said it was a tattoo. His own. He described the recent decision and related experience in…
IF Power is Out on a Three Dog Night
The wife and I are living under the jurisdiction of a new Energy Domain: new to solar panels, new to heat pumps and new to Generac propane generators. We are not so new to power outages, and wondering about “best…
Fragments Rises Again. Kinda
The blog was on the ropes. Then it was down for the count. The referee intended to stop the fight, the victim too far injured to rise again. But wait! Fragments has struggled to her feet, bloodied, staggering, but headed…
Moving Day: the Debacle
If you've planned something so carefully that nothing can go wrong, something will. But couldn't moving day be an exception? Apparently not.
New Ground
We walked through our tiny patch of forest (compared to Goose Creek) in the rain–of course, in the Monsoon of June–on our third full day at what I used to refer to as The Other Place. It is now This…
On Herd Immunity: or Not
Path of least resistance AND looking at new ways of getting information (mostly for me) out of my “second brain” of Roam Research (“networked tool for thought) and into a place that has at least a weak possibility of finding…
The Future of Feeding Ourselves
The future of food will be different after COVID19. We should be planting our Victory Gardens NOW!
Gramps Gets Night Cramps
I not uncommonly fall asleep on the love seat in the front room at bedtime, especially if the wood stove is glowing and radiating sleepiness into the darkness. As usual, last night I woke up after an hour or so,…
Morning Pages ~ 20 March ’20
DREAMING IS FREE It is good again to have a dream: We will be able to start a symbolic (if not a vastly productive) garden at The Other Place. It was preying on me–that we would be helpless and dependent…
Why The F (Word)
Catcher in the Rye used it five times. If you find an old copy in a second-hand book store, chances are some 12 year old (now 80-ish) underlined every instance. Back then, the f-word was outrageous; shocking; and hidden. And…
Tree Projects Growing in Floyd
Trees matter, forests matter. Terrestrial life has been defined by forests where it has evolved.
More Than Passing Time
How do two occasional grandparents make their first and maybe only week with their 8 yr old grandson memorable, beneficial and fun?
This Old House
Floyd County, Virginia, historic farmhouse on 80 acres with two creeks: for sale