It’s been 15 years since I’ve lived in a natural setting, and wow. Overnight. Lifestyle. Change. At a slower rate, I’ve been shuttling for three weeks, moving to our new digs. Every time I pass Sunfire, the mouth of the canyon whispers, This is serious stuff. The winds whip; snow gusts. Too sharp a […]
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My first run in porcelain
I don’t ski, so answering The Sopris Sun’s year-end dare to its reporters, to “do something you’ve never done before,” with my first descent down a double black diamond run, was one possibility. Except, for me, ski resorts are like factory farms for winter sports. I resolved instead to do something equally as bold: throwing […]
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Letters – Jan. 6, 2022
Thanks Gary! The “retirement” of Dr. Gary Knaus, preceded by Dr. Rick Harrington, are great reminders of our debt to people who built the social infrastructure in Carbondale. Rick and Gary were health care in town and built a strong practice that is now part of the Valley View health system. With the support of […]
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Ps & Qs: It’s how to play the game
Happy new year! Oh boy, these days it seems like each year is better than the next… just kidding — sort of. We went through the ringer last year: pestilence, poverty, politicians who were ready to burn it all down and hang the vice president on the front steps of the capitol. This was the […]
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Digging the dark
Sometimes it takes friends to get you out of your comfort zone. It takes even better ones to get you to cross that proverbial boundary while at your side every step of the way. So, with a little help from my friends, for 2022 I tried something new: caving. Jan. 2, was an especially brisk […]
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Year-end reflections from Mayor Dan
For as long as I can remember, my goal in life has been to change the world — for the better. I started off my career focused on clean energy and sustainability in the built environment because it was the most interesting way for me to change the world. After a couple of decades, I […]
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A toast to the stories yet untold
How to sum up a year like 2021? Chinese Astrology deemed it the “Year of the Metal Ox,” which I associate with a lot of hard work. And indeed it was. Mentally, emotionally, physically — we’ve all been challenged to rise above exceedingly difficult circumstances. Or, at least, to rise out of bed and seek […]
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Are our relationships at a healing junction?
A junction point is a meeting place where trails converge. In modern times we may think of an intersection where two streets or highways cross. Our world is much more than street intersections. Our world is a beautiful web of life-sustaining junction points. Originally, our ancestors were in direct relationship with the land and water […]
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Letters – Dec. 30, 2021
350 Roaring Fork “Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free. It’s dizzy with possibilities…” – Bob Weir and John Barlow Some of us gather on Friday mornings at 8 a.m. to remember our personal connection to the planet and its future. We remind some others as well by carrying signs along 133 and […]
