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May 2009

Telluride's Nugget Theatre will show two movies for the week of May 15-21, Race to Witch Mountain and The Soloist. In addition there will be a Telluride Film Festival presentation of Gomorrah at 8:30 pm on Thursday, May 21.

Racetowitchmountain_poster "Race to Witch Mountain" is for the younger set. From Disney, its PG Rating is primarily for some scenes which might be frightening for sensitive youngsters. The story concerns a taxi driver who picks up a pair of aliens who look like teenagers. The kids are being pursued by the U.S, government, and must get back to Witch Mountain.

Thesoloist_poster "The Soloist" (Rated PG) is based on a true story. Journalist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey jr.) discovers a child musical prodigy, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Jamie Foxx) existing as a homeless man in Los Angeles. The movie alternates between the present and the past in order to show how Ayers went from a life of promise to a life on the streets.


For reviews and trailers, see the Nugget website.



14 May, 2009 /

[click "Play" button to hear Susan's conversation with Kimberly Rose] The adjective "hairy" has two distinct meanings. Telluride locals seek out hairy moments in the mountains: hazardous and frightening are turn ons. Hairy also means "having or covered with,...

13 May, 2009 /

Spring may be my favorite time of the year in Telluride, though you may want to check with me on this in late September. In any case, this morning was Sus' and my first hike with Gina the Dog since we returned from our off-season...

13 May, 2009 /

The New Community Coalition has requested that TIO pass along this information about recycling days in Telluride.When: May 14-16, 10:00 am- 4:00 pmWhere: Black Bear Road (between Shandoka and the bus barns)What: Electronics, household items, hazardous materialsWhy: This is the annual opportunity to properly dispose...

12 May, 2009 /

Listing41 As anxious as we were to get home to Telluride, we dawdled leaving the Hastings' home in Indianapolis. It was just too pleasant to rush out. So we had a short drive on Saturday and decided to stop for the night in Kansas City. We often do not make hard plans in our travels, and, true to form, we had no reservations when we arrived. That flexibility has occasionally meant we had to accept less than we had hoped, but not this time.

We found the Q Hotel and Spa, which bills itself "Kansas City's 'Green Hotel'" and found ourselves surrounded with quiet luxury and a staff who, to a person, could not do enough for us. Susan spent quite a while with the reception folks, and came up with what turned out to be a great dinner reservation.

11 May, 2009 /

May 7 to 13, 2009

Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Mars and Jupiter  Evening: Saturn

Illumination and Manifestation: the May 8th Taurus/Scorpio Full Moon

DSC00434 Full Moons are times of illumination, fruition and manifestation. Unlike new Moons, which occur when the Sun and Moon are exactly aligned – in the same sign, at the same zodiac degree – full Moons take place when the Sun is exactly opposite the Moon and they are in opposite zodiac signs.

The conjunction aspect of a new Moon is a point of energy collection, focus and concentration, [the last new Moon took place on April 24th @ 05º03' Taurus], a time when we feel the powerful imperative of a new beginning, a beginning coming from the inside out. It’s a time to be "in synch" and at one with the Universe - we are somehow connected to and a piece of the greater collective whole. Something cosmic is in the air - a feeling of innocence and hope, initiation and rebirth - and I always feel instinctively optimistic at new Moon times, as if I am on the brink of a new precipice, facing unknown opportunity and embarking upon fresh territory.

10 May, 2009 /

DSC_2264.cover.6x4 copy Lots of things were broken in the early 1990s: the economy and my arm. The country turned to the Man from Hope to fix the economic downturn. (Clinton did.) To fix the arm, the result of a horseback riding accident, I turned to a part-time Telluride local, world renowned hand and arm surgeon Dr. Hill Hastings of the Indiana Hand Center/Shoulder & Elbow Institute, our Indianapolis connection.

Meeting HIll was yet another in the endless variations on the theme of six degrees of separation: a friend of a friend, he happened to be in residence at his Telluride Ski Ranches home just three weeks before I was scheduled for surgery in New York. The man's genius was apparent after our first meeting: he had created architectural drawings of my arm, complete with moving parts to illustrate what needed to happen. He generously offered to participate in a conference call with my New York doc. Clint and I decided to jump ship and have him do the surgery.

10 May, 2009 /

[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Sarah Klein]

GoodMotherCardscreen Forget to make a brunch reservation on this special day and you wind up in the Seventh Circle of Hell. In Telluride, as in the best of all possible worlds, Mother's Day would be everyday. The Hallmark Card model of the holiday is a set-up, a guilt trip, that should, I believe, go the way of the Hummer.

Truth be told no matter how many saccharine cards, roses, truffles, heart necklaces, or brunches we buy, we can never ever pay off that eternal debt we owe the woman who packs our lunches, bandages our boo-boos, soothes our bruised egos, cuddles and encourages us through thick and thin, believes in us no matter what. The best of the breed inspires success without ever pushing an agenda. They teach, but don't preach, the requirement for a straight spine and strong moral fiber. They are smart, loving, resourceful, and charming. And, they do this with no guarantee of a quid pro quo.
09 May, 2009 /

Telluride's Nugget Theatre is showing "Sunshine Cleaning" at 6:30 and 8:30 pm Friday, May 8 thru Sunday, May 10, then at 7:30 Monday through Thursday, May 14.Amy Adams and Emily Blunt are sisters who get into a rather unusual business: cleaning up the premises...

07 May, 2009 /

The consensus is that Telluride is a place " to die for." But the phrase is simply a figure of speech to describe the physical beauty of our surroundings.

Last week in New York,  on April 30, friends invited us to attend the Sixth Annual Foreign Policy Lecture and Benefit given by the nonprofit Network 20/20.

Former U.S. Senator/Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle was the evening's guest speaker on the subject of "America's Role in Global Security." During his lecture the senator observed, "People with nothing to live for, find something to die for;" there was no mistaking the cold reality surrounding the genesis of terrorist impulses. His point: "civility and decency" towards our global neighbors are "strategic imperatives." We need to stop regarding people on the other side of the world as The Other.

06 May, 2009 /