Good News! Every dollar you give in support of SustainFloyd’s community-based projects brings THREE dollars  to support local farmers, school lunches, educational programs and more! This matching offer gives each of us leverage towards better diets and nutrition, better understanding…
What! You’ve never been to Floyd EcoVillage on Franklin Pike? What? You thought we had aquifers like other places, or that we had plenty of pristine water forever in Floyd County? If you answered NO to question number one and…
I think I had something to say on perspective but I lost mine before I could get it down. Somehow I ended up at security.google.com. If you use gmail, might want to give your google records a good look. Under RECENT…
There is NIMBY. Understandably, that is seen as an “all about me” attitude, dismissive of the harm done to others as long as I or my interests are not directly damaged. But in Floyd, there is NIMWS. Not In My…
I woke up this morning wondering what it was I thought about the potential of a 42″ x 20 mile long natural gas pipeline across Floyd County. This is not an easy challenge to understand, even from how it settles in…
Might have been almost a year since our gaggle of friends pulled me down the street on Friday night to eat. “Where are we going” I asked in the final stages of blood sugar collapse quite a few hours since…
It’s not like Monday is the onerous uphill trudge it once was during my so-called “working life.” This isn’t WORKING LIFE? Yah. There’s just no paycheck every two weeks. The list just seems longer–even in these marvelous, carefree “golden years”…
Plan to join us this Saturday night–for the movie and beans and rice. You’ll be glad you did. The movie is about hunger in America, and the so-what that derives from that–a great topic as we enter a new year…
I found this shot of the panel discussion from the last SF-featured movie night when we watched “A Fierce Green Fire” about the history of environmental battles since Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson. And I am reminded that I should…
You’ll be shocked to learn that there was absolutely NO shopping activity from this household on Black Friday–a day upon which those who have the day before given thanks for all that they have are driven by an incomprehensible consumptive…
Okay, I’m paying for my procrastination–on several fronts. I put off getting up a blog post I’ve been thinking about (blog posts these days being mostly personal writing exercises and archived ruminations.) The one I had in mind to dig…
Odd. Not the kind of thing you expect to see parked near the church up on the hardtop–an armoured State Police vehicle–with the narrow bullet-proof windows, bristling with all sorts of communications and weapons-ready ports on the top, wide as…
In some places, major appliances have year-round places on porches. In this case, it was only briefly during some inside remodeling. But apparently, the rule for some folks is that if it can be seen from the road, it’s fair…
Gak! I have another project. How do people become bored and disengaged? I suppose they don’t live in such metropolitan, progressive, high-cultural places as Floyd. The pity. So I’m already somehow affiliated to a greater extent that I had initially…