Ode to the Potato By Henry Bailey, 7th grade, Carbondale Community School Tasty potato, good with cheese and butter but only if cooked, Kept in woven sacks deep in cellars with other produce, Roundish, dirty and hairy when out of the dirt but tasty if washed and baked, The multicolored vegetable comes in brown, Purple, […]
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Scuttlebutt / Calendar – June 22, 2023
Troubadour talent Carbondale’s own Jackson Emmer won the 30th annual Troubadour Contest at Telluride Bluegrass this year. The songwriter competition invites artists not currently signed to a major recording or publishing deal to perform original songs. Congrats, Jackson! Holy Cross election Holy Cross Energy, our nonprofit rural electric co-op, held its annual meeting on June […]
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Mending the Hoop
Whether colonizer or colonized, oppressor or oppressed, we all are wounded from the illusion of separation between Mother Earth, ourselves and each other. Indigenous peoples who live in tribes connected with their roots are perhaps closer than the rest of us to our Mother. Woody Morrison, a Haida elder who passed away in 2021, wrote […]
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Remendando el Aro
Traducción por Dolores Duarte Ya sea colonizadores o colonizados, opresores u oprimidos, todos estamos heridos por la quimera de separación entre la Madre Tierra, nosotros mismos y entre sí. Los pueblos indígenas que viven en tribus conectadas con sus raíces están quizá más cerca que el resto de nosotros de nuestra Madre. Woody Morrison, un […]