100% Beef-ish: Show Don’t Sell
Wall-e meets Gromit goes grocery shopping.Chipotle scores in this un-commercial info-tainment animated moral tale. We have become the undead among unfoods.There is another way to feed ourselves.▶ Slow...
View ArticleJesus Goes to Georgia
"And if a man smites you on the cheek, I say to do return injury for injury in kind. Not an eye for an eye, but verily repay a slap a tight cluster about the bowels.Stand your ground, ye peacekeepers,...
View ArticleYoung Blood and The Thread of Life
Things come in threes and when they do, I start to see shapes in the clouds.Creativity, after all, is putting together what already exists--often in some other person's work or thoughts or writings--in...
View ArticleMust Be Monday
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...
View ArticleFeral Children in Public Places
To everything there is a season. A time for bouncing off the walls; a time to sit quietly and listen. Some children have parents who don't know the difference. A rant...I have a low tolerance for...
View ArticleNo Topless Bar in Floyd
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...
View ArticleAnalyse This: SCiO’s Crowdsourced Database of Matter
Given the phenomenal success of this Kickstarter project (13k backers, $2.76 million pledged towards a goal of $200k) you should be interested in SCiO--a miniature hand-held spectrometer.This, my...
View ArticleTraveling Hopefully
So I had this notion a month or so back that my experience as teacher, speaker, field trip leader and engaged citizen would mesh nicely before small groups of folks who come to Floyd County lacking any...
View ArticleEnd of the Age: A Splendidly Disturbing Time
We toured the 31 outdoor wooden "sculptures" in a distant Floyd County field with both our imaginations and the creating artist's names and a brief hint at explanations about each piece staged over a...
View ArticleLiving Dangerously
There was a time when I didn't write about certain subjects because I was concerned that I would lose my blog readership.Now that that's water under the bridge, if I write to Fragments at all, I put up...
View ArticleReaching Out: The Sound of Fingernails on a Chalkboard
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).It...
View ArticleOverstuffed Thanksgetting
“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...
View ArticleCommittees. Commitment. Community: Common Unity.
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...
View ArticleGood Will Toward Earth
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, once...
View ArticleHow Not To Boil a Frog
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...
View ArticleEarth Day on Floyd Time
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...
View ArticleTell Congress: Don’t Sell Food Labeling Rights to THOSE GUYS
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...
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