That April, 22 years ago, I hadn't yet moved away from Seattle. In fact, having taken a year between transitioning from flight school to University of Washington to work as a flight instructor, I wasn't quite finished with my degree in Atmospheric Sciences and...
by Dr. Susanna Hoffman
SPRING LAMB STEW WITH ARTICHOKES, DILL, AND A MYSTERY INGREDIENT
The arrival of spring is signaled by the corresponding arrival of a divine culinary treasure, lamb. The meadows in which the lambs graze also offer up the first herb of the year, delicate, feathery dill as gardens nearby produce their first baby artichoke globes on bladed plants. Combined together the three make an exhilarating stew, in which tender bites of young lamb seem to frolic in the broth made impudent with the artichokes and dill. Such young ingredients can sometimes result in a thinish stew, but a fourth mystery ingredient solves the problem by adding a robust, but hidden richness: anchovies. The anchovies completely dissolve in the cooking, no sign of them appears to put off any anchovy naysayer, yet their hidden presence deepens the stew until guests will ask how you came up with such a sumptuous concoction. It’s up to you whether you reveal the secret or not. The same idea works for a poultry stew as well. A toss of olives in the mix provides an extra salty sparkle.
As promised a photo of Ralph Dinosaur performing at Telluride end of ski season festivities from 22 years ago. It's just a teaser - the daffodils are calling for a bicycle tour around the Skagit Valley. Incriminating photos to follow. In the meantime, can...
James Colt had two goals this season skiing in Telluride: He wanted to ski at the top of the mountain and he wanted to ski 50 days.I had the pleasure of starting James on the Magic Carpet, spent a number of days skiing on...
April 2 to 9, 2009
Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Jupiter Evening: Saturn
Tap in to the Warrior Spirit of Aries-Aquarius and Go Forth!
This week we have some rather interesting astrological aspects at work in the cosmos. Here on Earth, we are dealing with international economic crisis, global warming, national recession and our own individual processes of breakdown, breakthrough and ultimately, resurrection and rebirth.
One of the reasons I love astrology is because whenever anything is happening in my life or anyone else’s – including the collective experience – I can find it constellated in the cosmos. Ever since my first awakenings to this “divine science,” I have been stunned and surprised by it’s synchronistic accuracy and metaphysical mo-jo.
Humanity today is at an incredibly advanced new beginning, which is an absolutely Aries-Aquarian kind-of-thing. We have come a great distance from our primordial birth to a place of mind-boggling technological invention. And what now? The planets [Pluto now in Capricorn, Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces and Neptune, Jupiter and Chiron conjunct in Aquarius] say it’s time to transform our entire way of perceiving reality, defining our physical world and structuring economies, governments, leadership and authority in general. If we don’t want, agree or go along with this metamorphic change, be prepared, it will happen anyway. It’s like a global tsunami, a collective cataclysm or an asteroid from outer space. We have no choice. Acceptance is the answer. So as the Moon waxes this week toward full on April 9th, take a deep breath and tap in to the courageous spirit of Aries the Warrior. Fight for right and battle for justice, truth, honesty and integrity. Good luck and may the Force be with you.
(Part of "Telluride Inside...and Out's" ongoing support of The New Community Coalition and related change agents, such as the Regional Sustainability Visioning Project, is to keep the post-meeting dialogue going. County commissioner/poet Art Goodtimes writes "Razz-a-ma-tazz: a more-or-less monthly on-line column for TIO."
Below he comments on the March 18 RSVP meeting.)
by Art Goodtimes
Myles Rademan -- with his future planner’s bag of tricks & treats, funny New Yorker cartoons and retro-Crested Butte memorabilia snaps -- played hotshot scattergun foil to JoDee Powers' focus on drum empowerments and deep insights, touching mind and body. Two good speakers, both motivational and funny. And they played to a room full of local government leaders and the CEO of the ski company, all wrestling with RSVP’s paradoxical message – “Many things will have to change for the town to stay the same.” Hearing about resilience and the entrepreneurial spirit, not mere sustainability and the status quo.
“Don’t believe everything you believe,” suggested Radical Man, quoting a culling slide show wisdom from diverse sources (mostly men) – Loudon Wainright, Tom Friedman, Henry Ford. “Familiarity breeds invisibility.”
Just as everyone has a "coming to Telluride" story, a lot of people have "end of ski season" stories in Telluride too. Ralph Dinosaur and his crew performing at Gorrono Lodge were a prominent feature of "Kimm's 'coming to Telluride' story", introducing me to the...
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's interview with Ralph] Sometimes life in Telluride is such a drag – especially when dragster extraordinaire Ralph Dinosaur takes to the stage. The cross-dressing Ralph and his band of renown headline KOTO's end-of-season...
For 10 years, I took private lessons with Viniyoga therapist River Cummings, and found the customized sequences we did together transformative. I am now in the teacher training program with River's teacher and the head of the lineage in America, Gary Kraftsow, with only...
Telluride's Nugget Theatre is showing "Duplicity" (Rated PG-13), Friday, April 3 through Thursday, April 9. Friday screenings are at 8:30 pm, the rest of the week at 7:00 pm.Claire (Julia Roberts), ex CIA, and Ray (Clive Owen), ex MI6, are re-united as rivals in industrial...
