C’mon, Ernie By Fred Malo Jr.Carbondale My Chicago Cubs are already down two zip and the bulk of the season hasn’t even started yet. Last week, they got swept in a two-game series in Tokyo against the defending world champion Los Angeles Dodgers — a team, unencumbered by a salary cap, that can get any […]
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Empty TheologiesBy Daniel Torres Carbondale Beloved be poetry, blessed be the poet Oh my dear beloved! Hail poetry! Solomon wrote. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Wrote the one who loved Him most. In the end was Babel, and the Word was not with […]
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Tell Them I’m Gone By Dan SpillerGlenwood Springs O down river, O down riverWash this old fool awayWhere lost is and hopeless remains Tell my son, tell my sonNot to do what I have done, I could not walk and tried to runTell him, love from a broken man will come undone Tell my love, tell […]
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Please join The Sopris Sun community in celebration of the paper’s 16th birthday at the Old Thompson Barn on Thursday, Feb. 20 from 5 to 8pm. Tickets can be purchased at www.soprissun.com Oh, the places The Sun will goBy Just Jim The buzz of the ValleyMeets far off placesThe Sun stashed in the luggageOf any […]
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EarthboundBy Katie Brimm For Casey, and all farmers lost to suicide. Rootless he leaves The earth bound Now to another Dimension. Gone Where we cannot follow, cannot Feast upon the earthly delights He has always grown For us, he bred Tomatoes that survive frostThat grow Above six thousand feet His feet will never touch The ground where His hands Plunged into the rich loam Whose […]
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A high-stakes scavenger huntBy Tom MercerCarbondale-ish Long ago, it was not uncommon for children to participate in a scavenger hunt. For our purposes, a scavenger hunt is a competitive activity wherein two or more teams are given identical lists of items which they have to locate and acquire by going door-to-door in their community. At […]
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ELK By Jay G. MerriamJan. 19, 2025 Crisp, clear, dry, blue airwashes over the landscape.Minus 6 at 6.Short of O2, but it’ll do. A band of thirty-two elktrip slowlyacross frozen fieldsretreating from an overnight hay bingeat the neighbors barn. They look back furtively, hopingshe won’t notice the giant holein the bales. Like teens sneaking inlong […]
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.By Nancy Bo Flood This month we honored his work by pausing to remember his dedication to achieving justice and human rights for all — the right to pursue and have life and liberty. What is liberty? The right to choose … How one wants to live, to learn, to work. […]
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Winter Walk Knit (Not) By Deborah Holt Williams For winter walks there’s nothing better Than a cozy handknit sweater. Can I knit? I cannot. All my sweaters? Thrift store bought. […]
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I am Frankie’s big monkey By Fred MaloCarbondale Most of the people I know who live with a cat think they own the animal. Nobody owns a cat. They won’t come, sit, beg, roll over, speak or lick your face. They’re their own boss. I’m an average sized man, but considerably larger than Frankie. Good […]