What can we do? By Illène Pevec Special to The Sopris Sun In Colorado and around the world, devastating fires have burned, are burning, will burn. Droughts dry, high-speed winds blow. Sea levels rise around the globe, threatening entire island nations and our own coasts! What can we do to mitigate these challenges? We can […]
Illene Pevec
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Gratitude to the Native Americans who helped our ancestors
We learned in grade school about the Native Americans sharing seeds and agricultural knowledge with the Pilgrims. Just imagine, a Pilgrim had never seen corn, squash or beans, the “three sisters” plants cultivated and adapted by our continent’s first peoples. Later events, the broken land treaties, Trail of Tears and the expulsion of the Utes […]
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What I did with my parents’ bodies
want to share our experience of handling my parent’s end of life process as this may help others. My mother died in August, 2014. My father died last May. In both cases my children and I cared for them at home as neither wanted to be anywhere else. This was not easy as there always […]