Amaryllis By Linda HelmichJanuary 12, 2024 Sometimes in life, though we have had a season of flourishing, we find ourselves in a dark place, all alone. We feel like a chopped off, rather fat, ugly bulb with hardly even a sign of life. “What’s the use?” we ask. Still, maybe it won’t always be this […]
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Spruce Up The Sun 2025: Holiday Harmony
Picking up a Valley Journal tradition, The Sopris Sun has highlighted youth artwork in each holiday issue. Every year, The Sun comes up with a different prompt and young people (kindergarten through high school) submit associated illustrations. An ad-hoc committee judges the pieces based on quality and how well they match the theme. Participants submitted […]
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A Life Ornamented
By Jessica Amber Barnum A young girl meanders far from homeon a winter adventurethrough thickets of forest.She comes upona tiny pine tree,its tip a sprig in the snow. She almost steps on it,but doesn’t.She leans down and brushes the snowfrom its branches, low and highthen digs down and downwith wet mittensand wild wonderuntil she reaches […]
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Mature Content: Another last chance
You’ll be reading this towards the end of the Jewish month of Elul, a few days before Rosh Hashonah (the universe’s birthday) and maybe two weeks before Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement). The 10 days between are called “The Ten Days of Awe.” Here’s how these 39-days work. Yom Kippur, a day of fasting […]
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Lights… camera… auction!
Sopris Sun contributor Will Sardinsky captured these photos from up and down Main Street on a bustling First Friday, Dec. 6. After viewing Carbondale’s tree-lighting, folks were invited to meet Santa, take a sleigh ride or do some shopping at Carbondale Arts’ Deck the Walls holiday market, KDNK’s Labor of Love auction and the Carbondale […]
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John Bemis Community Potluck — a growing Thanksgiving tradition
The John Bemis Community Potluck, a long-standing tradition that began in the late 1980s at the Snowmass Chapel, is set to return on Sunday, Nov. 24, from 4:30 to 8pm at the Viewline Resort Snowmass. The annual event draws over 500 attendees and offers a warm, communal gathering for locals, seasonal workers and visitors alike.Snowmass […]
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Redstone Connected: another mountain gem
The Crystal River Valley has unearthed its newest gem this season at Redstone Connected, an inspiring and welcoming community-centric internet cafe. Located at 450 Redstone Blvd, Redstone Connected is a co-working space for visitors and residents alike to enjoy refreshments, use high-speed internet and browse locally created art and crafts. Perhaps most importantly, the quaint […]
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Celebrating light
The holiday season is full of many joyous celebrations. I attended two of perhaps the lesser-known observances. On Saturday evening, Dec. 17, around 70 people gathered at the Third Street Center for a community celebration of Chanukah (Hanukkah) with an early lighting of the menorahs that were brought by the families in attendance and a […]