VOICES Radio Hour is brought to you by VOICES in partnership with KDNK, The Sopris Sun, and Connection is Medicine Foundation. Each episode we share stories from members of our community. We hope this serves to preserve our oral history of who we are, where we come from and who we aspire to be, through […]
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‘Los pájaros cantan porque la gente está despertando’
Está oscuro. Completamente oscuro, salvo por las rocas volcánicas incandescentes en el centro de esta estructura, hecha de ramas de sauce dobladas y cubierta con mantas. Un tambor late de manera constante, y mi corazón late con él. Varias voces intentan seguir un antiguo canto de oración lakota. Por momentos, las rocas sisean cuando se […]
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Happy trails, Raleigh
I’ve been tasked with a handful of recommendation letters over the past few years. It comes easier to me— speaking to what makes a colleague or intern exceptional. Yet it carries a sense of immense pressure. Will these words hold a candle to the person they describe? The answer is mostly no. With all of […]
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Partial: Defending the people who defend the Earth
As editor of The Sopris Sun, I am tasked with exercising impartiality: Keeping an open mind to the many nuances that exist in every story. There is one story, however, I’m compelled to tell, and I must admit, I am partial. I am partial to a people risking everything to restore a more harmonious coexistence […]