Summer 2016Volume 10, ISSue 1

Zonolite neighbors got together this past Earth Day, April 22, to install a gorgeous pollinator garden at the trailhead to Zonolite Park. Get a sneak peak at how we’re making our garden grow in this issue of the Floataway Flash

A ZONOLITE ROAD NEIGHBORHOOD QUARTERLY

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POLLINATING PLANTS PROMOTE MINDFULNESSZonolite Park’s new pollinator garden invites guests to practice mindfulness and “Bee Here Now”

Last April 22 (Earth Day), dozens of volunteers came together to install more than 400

pollinating plants at the entrance to Zonolite Park. Designed by Matt Sussman of Tunnell & Tunnell Landscape Architects, varieties planted include Eastern Columbine, Blue and Yellow Wild Indigo, Bee Balm, Little Bluestem, Joe Pye Weed and more. Funds for the pollinator garden were donated by Arnie Silverman, Kathleen Walker, and Michael Phillips (owners of Floataway Community) and matched by a small change grant from Park Pride.

Nickel Bottom (a “Friends of Zonolite Park” group) plans to develop programming, signage, and amenity improvements in the park with a focus on mindfulness. “With businesses like Atlanta Soto Zen Center and The Institute for Love and Light so nearby,” says Nickel Bottom volunteer Gerlinda Grimes, “mindfulness was a natural inspiration for

this project.” Future park programming may include a free mindfulness-based fitness series, and Nickel Bottom volunteers are also talking with local boy scout troops about installing a picnic shelter in the park meadow. Volunteers are needed to help maintain the pollinator garden. To sign up, please email: ggrimes@tuckermott.com.

Pollinator Garden

HELP MAKE OUR GARDEN GROW!

Volunteers are needed to help weed and water the new pollinator garden. To sign

up, email: ggrimes@tuckermott.com.

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FLOATAWAYFACESA big welcome to our newest community members.

BOITIPSWit and wisdom from Floataway property manager Jan McCurry’s more emotionally-evolved alter-ego, “Boi.”

My step daughter Vivienne and I have a new favorite pasttime: geocaching. Geocaching is a relatively

new pursuit, based on the 160-year-old game of letterboxing. Letterboxers hid small, weatherproof containers in publicly accessible places and offered clues about how to find them. Using orienteering and puzzle-solving, other Letterbox ers hunted these treasures. The finder would leave a stamp in the makers log, and would imprint the maker’s stamp (found inside the letterbox) into their own notebooks.

Geochaching works much the same way, except geocachers use mobile phones and GPS coordinates, rather than obscure, whispered clues, to find the “cache.” Vivienne and I use a free iPhone app to locate our caches that contain small, fun surprises, which we take and replace with items of our own (a sharpie for a yo-yo, etc.) Hernan and I have also been hunting. Imagine our delight when we discovered two caches in Zonolite Park!

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INTELLITURF (1123 Arcade-E)IntelliTurf installs 100% recyclable and lead-free artificial turf products for private residences, golf courses, and housing. intelliturf.com

RESOLVE MEDIA (1145 #5)Resolve Media Group is an Atlanta-based production company dedicated to creating the highest-quality music videos, commercials, narrative content and other visuals for our clients. resolvemediagroup.com

CRITICAL RESPONSE SYSTEMS (1123 #8A)Critical Response Systems provides turn-key solutions for notification, response paging to organizations requiring mission-critical communications. criticalresponse.com

STAY (1075 #1E)We provide short term, furnished housing to film industry cast & crew, vacationers and corporate travelers. stayllc.com

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THE LIGHTER SIDE SHOWJamie Butler, clairvoyant and owner of The Center for Love and Light (1145 Zonolite #10), branches out with a new podcast “The Lighter Side Show with Jamie Butler”

Jamie Butler is The Everyday Medium. She is a natural born Medium who has presented classes,

workshops, and channellings worldwide for over 25 years. Jamie is the founder of The Center for Love and Light in Atlanta, GA and co-founder of the nonprofit learning environment, The Love and Light Institute. The Institute’s classes connect mind, body, emotion and soul to cultivate the potential from within. Jamie has also created Happy Monday videos to her followers,

nicknamed the Luminaires, to encourage truths through humor while letting go of learned behavior. Most recently, Jamie has launched a new podcast, “The Lighter Side Show with Jamie Butler,” which airs weekly and features channeling and conversations with fellow intuitives, all with Jamie’s trademark humor. Subscribe at thelightersideshow.com and discover upcoming Love & Light events at withloveandlight.com/events.

MEREDITH KOOI AT {POEM 88}July 9 - August 6 visual and performance artist Meredith Kooi will bring Pitchtree, Peachtree Nickel Bottom, too, a process-based research residency, to {Poem 88}. Kooi will dig into the histories of Peachtree Creek through research, performance, audio explorations, and radio broadcast experimentations, illuminating the various communities that have inhabited the area. Learn more at poem88.net.