Finding Water

A personal water history. A draft chapter from a possible book, under revision. Working title: One Place Understood: A Personal Ecology from Home

Feather Go Home

We don’t know what goes on in their minds when they are with us, but only the smiles and memories they leave in our own hearts and…

Off Grid on Goose Creek

Rhythms change when the lights go out…

To Know Our Place

By Fred First / November 2014

Appalachian Time Machine

excerpt from Fred’s book in progress, One Place Understood

Through the glass floor of my Time Machine at thirty thousand feet above the sea level of that geological age, I see the jagged thrust of bare rock rising towards…

Banish the Darkness

Can you find your place among all these lighted places?

September

From a Floyd County Almanac, a book-with-images in progress—by Fred First

Autumn a Change in Cadence and Key

Though a few poetic souls and tree-hugging types like me will make soft cooing noises about the…

Relocalizing the Future

Every civilization since the cave painters has guided its culture according to an understanding, a Grand Story about…