Mandy and I chatted after a concert last week. She told me that she usually likes this column, but she wasn’t so sure about the last one. Kind of a downer, she thought. The column was about death becoming an ever more present companion when we are old. It was about losing loved ones and […]
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Crystal River update: Wild and Scenic
By Michael Gorman, Lea Linse and Hattie Johnson The upper Crystal River is one of the last “free-flowing” rivers in the state of Colorado — unrestrained and connected to its headwaters, without dams or out-of-basin diversions. As with all water issues in the West, it’s easy to find conflict, but communities along the Crystal River […]
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CVEPA Views: Who was Nikos Patsantaros?
Graffiti on public buildings, carving into soft desert sandstone and covering signs with insipid stickers all seem endemic these days. Is there a point when vandalism becomes artifact? Reflecting back on my high country meanders, I treasure the shepherd’s tree carvings the most. Throughout the boreal forest on Colorado’s Western Slope one can still find […]
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Money Juice: Think of your expenses as additive
Follow the Yellow Brick Road We are taught to view our expenses as subtractive, as life obstacles to be negotiated. In terms of budgeting, we are told to trim, sacrifice and find ways to reduce our spending. Of course living within one’s means is the baseline goal, but I believe we need to think about […]
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VOICES Radio Hour: The arrowhead
With an ancestry of Roaring Fork Valley pioneers, Stephen Bershenyi was born into a ranching family in Glenwood Springs and stewards the family property, the Lazy V Quarter Circle Ranch, a 640-acre high-mountain parcel protected by a conservation easement. An English literature and German language double major, Bershenyi also earned his journeyman card as a […]
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Seeking Haystacks: Radically contagious
“Americans have mastered the ‘art’ of living with the unacceptable,” —Breten Breytenbach I have been circling this statement for months, disturbed by Breytenbach’s insight about who we are: a people seemingly ill-equipped to face our huge environmental, civic and political issues. Our nation appears unable to engage in any meaningful introspection, which proceeds truth telling […]
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Ps&Qs: Fascist tea parties
“Elon Musk is really doing an incredible job educating the public about how capitalists end up aligning with fascists to maintain their wealth and limit the power of the working classes.” – @maxberger on X Truth. Here’s the thing: If all the rhetoric were true then these billionaires wouldn’t need to sell their souls to […]
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Missouri Heights residents debate land use and ‘rural character’
By Keep Missouri Heights Rural This is in response to Amy Hadden Marsh’s article, “Missouri Heights residents fear losing rural Colorado lifestyle.” The article, published July 19, 2024, expressed concerns about the potential impact of a proposed equestrian facility called Twin Acres. The Eagle County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) subsequently denied the Twin Acres […]
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Dream Well: Dreaming small to try a new form
Natalia Snider is a certified dream practitioner living in Carbondale. She works with people’s dreams and imaginations to facilitate self-healing. Every month, she analyzes someone’s dream in The Sopris Sun. Anyone can submit a dream for personal analysis or inclusion in this column by visiting: www.dreamhealings.com Nikki’s dreamI had a dream that I shrunk down […]
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‘The worst the bear would do is kill me’
A deeper look at the ‘Man vs. Bear’ hypothetical Content warning: This column discusses sexual abuse Imagine this: Would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man you don’t know? This hypothetical question has ignited a fiery debate across social media platforms for several months. The responses, particularly from women, […]