Category: The Finer Things
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West Virginia Summer: A fleeting evening in Photos
I’m not so sure what’s special about these photos on their own. What I am sure about is that, together, they capture the essence of a late West Virginia summer. Something that starts with plucking the embellishments for dinner from the garden. That ends with the sky on fire. But not until after its softly…
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[Interview with Canvas Rebel] Meet Sara Cottle
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I had the opportunity to sit down with Canvas Rebel Magazine and discuss the creative side of my work. Being in the sciences I oftentimes don’t get to exercise the same level of creativity I do when I pick a regional story to tell or an interpretation of a place or nature. I’ve found it…
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Hank Williams: The String Between West Virginia and Alabama
I was poking around a graveyard at 7 a.m. on a weekday morning in Montgomery, Alabama when I sat down beside Hank Williams and wrote: “I wonder if I looked confident or lost–maybe just thoughtful. It’s hard to look lost as a woman wearing cowboy boots.” So, Hank, I’m thoroughly enjoying this peanut butter and…
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[Interview] Conversations with Sara Cottle
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In March I had the opportunity to sit down with South Carolina Voyager to speak about my creative endeavors, career path, and more specifically my first short documentary film based in Richland County. I give a short journey of my backstory, talk about overcoming some challenges, how I find my stories, and inspiration in the…
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Finding Peace in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge
Every year around my birthday I always like to treat myself to a lesson; sometimes that lesson is self-care and culture immersion on a beach in Mexico or Spain, sometimes it’s something far deeper. Disconnecting in the Blue Ridge is something far deeper. There is a lesson in testing your strength, and there is a…
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The South’s Curiosities [Museum of Wonder]
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The South is a curious place — partly people, partly environment, partly history. Butch’s Museum of Wonder might be one of the most curious manifestations of the Southern experience. He’s been referred to as the ‘Father of Intertwanglism’, which I’d never heard of until discovering his artwork; and I find it wildly relatable to anyone who has ever…
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BREATHE
When your mind jumpsAround, up, downBreathe Things are so certainThe uncertainBreatheTime changes no oneBut isn’t time changeBreathe It’s how you deal with timeDeal with your mindBreathe S. L. Cottle
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FORGETFUL
Remember the sand and the seaThe colors of the dayMusic playingWhen I smiled bigNo worry in the worldMy world It was harder to forget than it seemedSlowly realizing a lot of it wasn’t me I can remember the seaThe sandThe colorsMusic still playing They’ve always been methat smile on my facecolors on my cheekssea on…
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REDISCOVERING YOUTH IN THE DISTRICT
Youth comes backday by daywhen you start to shedthings away When’d you startto feelso trapped Making eyesthrough Metro doorsGrabbing numbersoff the platform Taking a helpful strangers handthrough a Stanely Cup won crowdlifted up to yellin celebration Midnight bike ridesstopped for rooftop wine Waved downfrom a quaint boatThrowing your dressoverboardbehind your bodyCool in the Potomac Portraits…
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SUNKISSED
The coolnessThe heatToes wiggling beneathIt goes to your soulA lightness covers your wholeBeing S. L. Cottle
Sara L. Cottle 