Floataway Flash

Volume 10, Issue 1

Summer 2016

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 Z ONOLITE ROAD N E I G H B O R H O O D QUA RT E R LY

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

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ast April 22 (Earth Day), dozens of volunteers

this project.” Future park programming may include

came together to install more than 400

a free mindfulness-based fitness series, and Nickel

pollinating plants at the entrance to Zonolite Park.

Bottom volunteers are also talking with local boy

Designed by Matt Sussman of Tunnell & Tunnell

scout troops about installing a picnic shelter in the

Landscape Architects, varieties planted include

park meadow. Volunteers are needed to help maintain

Eastern Columbine, Blue and Yellow Wild Indigo,

the pollinator garden. To sign up, please email:

Bee Balm, Little Bluestem, Joe Pye Weed and more.

ggrimes@tuckermott.com.

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. in a to G a r de r

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Nickel Bottom (a “Friends of Zonolite Park” group) plans to develop programming, signage, and amenity improvements in the park with a focus on

HELP MAKE OUR GARDEN GROW!

mindfulness. “With businesses like Atlanta Soto

Volunteers are needed to help weed and

Zen Center and The Institute for Love and Light

water the new pollinator garden. To sign

so nearby,” says Nickel Bottom volunteer Gerlinda

up, email: ggrimes@tuckermott.com.

Grimes, “mindfulness was a natural inspiration for 2

BOI TIPS

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

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FLOATAWAY FACES A big welcome to our newest community members.

CRITICAL RESPONSE SYSTEMS (1123 #8A) Critical Response Systems provides turn-key solutions for notification, response paging

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

to organizations requiring mission-critical communications. criticalresponse.com

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.

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

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!

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

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

floatawaycommunity.com

travelers. stayllc.com

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THE LIGHTER SIDE SHOW

Jamie 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”

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amie Butler is The Everyday Medium. She is a

nicknamed the Luminaires, to encourage truths through

natural born Medium who has presented classes,

humor while letting go of learned behavior. Most

workshops, and channellings worldwide for over 25

recently, Jamie has launched a new podcast, “The

years. Jamie is the founder of The Center for Love and

Lighter Side Show with Jamie Butler,” which airs weekly

Light in Atlanta, GA and co-founder of the nonprofit

and features channeling and conversations with fellow

learning environment, The Love and Light Institute.

intuitives, all with Jamie’s trademark humor. Subscribe

The Institute’s classes connect mind, body, emotion and

at thelightersideshow.com and discover upcoming Love

soul to cultivate the potential from within. Jamie has

& Light events at withloveandlight.com/events.

also created Happy Monday videos to her followers,

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.

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