Zinta Aistars's Blog, page 28
March 21, 2013
Kids' Food Basket, picked up by Huffington Post
by Zinta Aistars
Originally published in Rapid Growth Media, March 14, 2013
Picked up by Huffington Post, March 21, 2013
Bridget Clark Whitney at KFB (Photo by Adam Bird)
Kids' Food Basket: Grand Rapids Nonprofit Feeding Hungry Children Celebrates 10 Years
Ten years ago, children were caught digging through the dumpster behind a Grand Rapids elementary school. Troublemakers? No. They were looking for food. They were hungry.Mary K. Hoodhood saw the children, asked the questions, got the answers, an...
Originally published in Rapid Growth Media, March 14, 2013
Picked up by Huffington Post, March 21, 2013
Bridget Clark Whitney at KFB (Photo by Adam Bird)Kids' Food Basket: Grand Rapids Nonprofit Feeding Hungry Children Celebrates 10 Years
Ten years ago, children were caught digging through the dumpster behind a Grand Rapids elementary school. Troublemakers? No. They were looking for food. They were hungry.Mary K. Hoodhood saw the children, asked the questions, got the answers, an...
March 17, 2013
My first byline in Huffington Post!
Published in Huffington Post on March 16, 2013
This article garnered some nice attention in its original placement in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media on March 7, 2013. I was very pleased to see Huffington Post pick it up from there:
Photo by Erik Holladay, erikholladay.com
This article originally appeared in Southwest Michigan Second Wave. A kid who would give up recess to make time for another lesson? Never happen.
At Woods Lake Elementary at 3215 Oakland Drive, in the Kid...
This article garnered some nice attention in its original placement in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media on March 7, 2013. I was very pleased to see Huffington Post pick it up from there:
Photo by Erik Holladay, erikholladay.com This article originally appeared in Southwest Michigan Second Wave. A kid who would give up recess to make time for another lesson? Never happen.
At Woods Lake Elementary at 3215 Oakland Drive, in the Kid...
March 14, 2013
One-of-a-kind jams, foraged foods keep elder fires burning
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
March 14, 2013
Heather Colburn (Photo by Erik Holladay, www.erikholladay.com)
Elder Fire Farm Arts is a small, grass roots operation that says its revolutionizing the food system--through jam. Zinta Aistars talks to Heather Colburn about jams, kimchee and preserving the harvest as long as one can.
Wind your way over ever smaller and smaller roads, from asphalt onto dirt, passing herds of black and white spotted cattle, then a sma...
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
March 14, 2013
Heather Colburn (Photo by Erik Holladay, www.erikholladay.com)Elder Fire Farm Arts is a small, grass roots operation that says its revolutionizing the food system--through jam. Zinta Aistars talks to Heather Colburn about jams, kimchee and preserving the harvest as long as one can.
Wind your way over ever smaller and smaller roads, from asphalt onto dirt, passing herds of black and white spotted cattle, then a sma...
A Legacy of Lumber
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Rapid Growth Media
March 14, 2013
KC Weaver at Tontin Lumber (Photo by Adam Bird, www.adambirdphoto.com)
Tontin Lumber has been in business for over 30 years, but it was a serendipitous conversation with a truck driver and a commitment to local sustainability that has allowed the family-owned business to survive the economic downtown and thrive today.
"Funny thing happened on the way to retirement…," Daryl Weaver begins, but then he gets distracted.
A client just...
Published in Rapid Growth Media
March 14, 2013
KC Weaver at Tontin Lumber (Photo by Adam Bird, www.adambirdphoto.com)Tontin Lumber has been in business for over 30 years, but it was a serendipitous conversation with a truck driver and a commitment to local sustainability that has allowed the family-owned business to survive the economic downtown and thrive today.
"Funny thing happened on the way to retirement…," Daryl Weaver begins, but then he gets distracted.
A client just...
March 10, 2013
Softly, gradually, it comes.
by Zinta Aistars
I love the snows, yes, but when the light shifts a certain way, as if more translucent, as if softer, and the air brings a fresh new scent, and the birds at my feeder come a little less often, and the icicles along the edges of the red farmhouse begin to drip, drip, drip ...
... I know, it comes. Spring is not so very far away. Even if there are more snows yet, and there will be, the earth is dreaming of new growth.
March marks my one-year anniversary since moving to Z Acres. I...
I love the snows, yes, but when the light shifts a certain way, as if more translucent, as if softer, and the air brings a fresh new scent, and the birds at my feeder come a little less often, and the icicles along the edges of the red farmhouse begin to drip, drip, drip ...
... I know, it comes. Spring is not so very far away. Even if there are more snows yet, and there will be, the earth is dreaming of new growth.
March marks my one-year anniversary since moving to Z Acres. I...
March 7, 2013
Music changes young lives, one note at a time, with Kids in Tune
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
March 7, 2013
DEB FALING, LEFT, LIZ YOUKER, AND RACHEL BOOMSMA FOR KIDS IN TUNe (PHoTo by erik holladay, erikholladay.com)
Kids in Tune is about more than teaching youngsters music. It's about support, nurturing, joy and acquiring life skills through the learning of music skills reports Zinta Aistars.
A kid who would give up recess to make time for another lesson? Never happen.
At Woods Lake Elementary at 3215 Oakl...
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
March 7, 2013
DEB FALING, LEFT, LIZ YOUKER, AND RACHEL BOOMSMA FOR KIDS IN TUNe (PHoTo by erik holladay, erikholladay.com)Kids in Tune is about more than teaching youngsters music. It's about support, nurturing, joy and acquiring life skills through the learning of music skills reports Zinta Aistars.
A kid who would give up recess to make time for another lesson? Never happen.
At Woods Lake Elementary at 3215 Oakl...
March 2, 2013
Z and Jeanne Hess on Monday Night Live talk show
by Zinta Aistars
Keith Roe, Monday Night Live
Jeanne Hess, author of Sportuality: Finding Joy in the Games, and I will be on Monday Night Live, March 4, live talk show with Keith Roe, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Oh yes, this IS going to be good. "Past the Illusions" on Jeanne's blog is just one of the many topics we will be taking on.
This will be my second appearance on Monday Night Live with Keith Roe , and I'm looking forward to it once again. It's amazing how fast that hour goes by as we discuss i...
Keith Roe, Monday Night LiveJeanne Hess, author of Sportuality: Finding Joy in the Games, and I will be on Monday Night Live, March 4, live talk show with Keith Roe, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Oh yes, this IS going to be good. "Past the Illusions" on Jeanne's blog is just one of the many topics we will be taking on.
This will be my second appearance on Monday Night Live with Keith Roe , and I'm looking forward to it once again. It's amazing how fast that hour goes by as we discuss i...
February 24, 2013
The Stone Painting of Orion
by Zinta Aistars
Much of the work at Z Word, LLC, is about writing and editing. Some of it is publicity work for other writers. But a less known part of the business is painted stones by commission.
I collect stones for painting on various beaches during my travels. Over time, I've learned which ones work best: smooth with the least porous surface, so as not to absorb the paint. Lake Superior's rocky beaches are the best! I have baskets and baskets full of these stones at home, and when someone...
Much of the work at Z Word, LLC, is about writing and editing. Some of it is publicity work for other writers. But a less known part of the business is painted stones by commission.
I collect stones for painting on various beaches during my travels. Over time, I've learned which ones work best: smooth with the least porous surface, so as not to absorb the paint. Lake Superior's rocky beaches are the best! I have baskets and baskets full of these stones at home, and when someone...
February 21, 2013
Rugby players in their element during Snowball
by Zinta Aistars
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
February 21, 2013
Snowball rugby (Photo by Erik Holladay at erikholladay.com)
What started as a way to fight winter doldrums has become a draw from across the state and a fundraiser for Kalamazoo's rugby enthusiasts. Zinta Aistars reports on those who refuse to let a little cold weather keep them off the field.
Snow falling, temperatures dipping, the world outside seemed to have stilled into a deep, white silence. Wha...
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
February 21, 2013
Snowball rugby (Photo by Erik Holladay at erikholladay.com) What started as a way to fight winter doldrums has become a draw from across the state and a fundraiser for Kalamazoo's rugby enthusiasts. Zinta Aistars reports on those who refuse to let a little cold weather keep them off the field.
Snow falling, temperatures dipping, the world outside seemed to have stilled into a deep, white silence. Wha...
February 16, 2013
Jeanne Hess writes it right
Now and then I read someone else's blog that hits it so spot on that I have to share. Jeanne Hess, one of my favorite authors whom I tagged a few days ago in my "Next Big Thing," the athlete behind the book, Sportuality: Finding Joy in the Games, put into words what so many of us have been thinking for a long time ... yet few will say it aloud. Brave writing. Sportual writing.Hess takes on team uniforms, high heels, the halftime show at the Super Bowl, and yes, THAT issue of Sports Illu...
