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November 2009

November 19 to 26, 2009

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

Grace, Gratitude and Thanksgiving

grace n 1. unmerited divine assistance given man for his regeneration or sanctification b: a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine grace c: a virtue coming from God
gratitude n [fr Latin gratus grateful] (1565): the state of being grateful]: THANKFULNESS
thankful adj (12c): conscious of benefit received or < for what we are about to receive >
thanksgiving n (1533) 1: the act of giving thanks 2: a prayer expressing gratitude 3: a public celebration of divine goodness
Thanksgiving Day n (1674) 1: a day appointed for giving thanks for divine goodness: as a: the fourth Thursday in November observed as a legal holiday in the U.S. b: the second Monday in October observed as a legal holiday in Canada

Archer For me, the holiday season begins when the Sun enters Sagittarius, which - in the western world’s Julian calendar - takes place each year on or near Nov. 21st. Sagittarius is the zodiac’s 9th sign and third fire sign. It is mutable in modality and positive in polarity, ruled by Jupiter and symbolized by the mythical centaur – an athletic, primal yet intellectual, half-man/half-horse - shooting an arrow in to the cosmos.

Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday – which synchronistically happens to be Jupiter’s day – of November. The earliest possible date for it to fall is on Nov. 22nd and the latest date is Nov. 28th, guaranteeing us that this quintessentially Sagittarian holiday will take place in Sagittarius every year over and over, again and again, forever and ever. Thank goodness!

20 November, 2009 /
[click "Play" to listen to Erik Dalton on outdoor fashion]

Kode_aframeski Editor's note: In Fall 2002, long-time Tellurider Susan Dalton acquired the flagship Jagged Edge store, 223 East Colorado. Son Erik, an avid outdoorsman – skier, climber, backpacker, kayaker – took over the operation. Today, Erik is the store's primary buyer and product tester. Product lines reflect a bias towards grown in America and co-ops that help people in Third World countries. One of Erik's respected vendors, Osprey Packs, perfectly fits the Jagged Edge mold.

Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts regularly does podcasts for Fashion Friday. Her subject is the latest and greatest in women's fashions and accessories and they are heavily laced with estrogen. Kristin is on vacation, so Telluride Inside... and Out decided to give Fashion Friday a very different spin this week, with a podcast by Erik Dalton about Osprey's great new ski/snowboard pack. I know we are pushing the definition of "fashion" with this post. But the people who will want this pack, are generally predisposed to pushing the edge. And besides, it's nice to throw a little testosterone into the mix.

20 November, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Sandra Dorr]

Bilde Friday, November 20, Telluride welcomes acclaimed poet/ teacher Sandra Dorr to town for two distinct events at the Wilkinson Public Library. At 1 p.m., Sandra offers a workshop: “Out of Your Mouth:  Performing Stories and Poems in Public. " She has this to say about that:

 "Sometimes reading in front of a crowd dries your mouth, freezes your throat, and jams your tongue.  This is a workshop for writers, young and old, to bring in samples of work, in poetry or prose, and, through several passes, improve the quality of their reading and thereby make the work, and their voices, live in public.  I will read short excerpts of my work, and explain some of the basics in elocution and just plain enjoyment in reading to an audience.  Come learn how to enjoy reading aloud."

At 6:30, the Program Room at the Wilkinson Public Library reopens for a reading by Sandra Dorr at 7 p.m. She will select works from her latest book of poems, "Desert Water."

19 November, 2009 /

Themenwhostareatgoats_smallposter The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride is showing one movie for the week of November 20-26: "The Men Who Stare at Goats." Rated R, the film tells us that there is a branch of the military which is studying the paranormal with the goal of reading the enemy's mind, killing by thought, learning to walk through walls.

TMWSAG is billed a dark comedy and boasts a first class cast in George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey and Ewen McGregor. I probably will go just to watch George Clooney stare a goat down. See below for showtimes, and see the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.

19 November, 2009 /
[click "Play" to hear Ben Williams speak about the Green Gondola project]

Mtn V G 3 Governor Ritter has a very public campaign targeting significant, statewide greenhouse gas reductions by 2020.Telluride Renewed is our two mayors' local response: a challenge to the communities of Telluride and the Mountain Village to produce 100% of our electricity from new renewable sources by 2020. One major step – or should we say ride – in the right direction is entrepreneur Ben Williams' Green Gondola Project, which falls under Telluride's The New Community Coalition's broad umbrella of sustainable initiatives.


The people mover linking the sister towns of Telluride and the Mountain Village is a free service to both communities, but as the world turns, "free" comes at a high price: two million kilowatt hours of electricity each year. Because most of that electricity is generated from burning coal, the gondola generates a large amount of greenhouse gas, contributing to global warming. But Williams came up with a smart answer: power the gondola with on-site solar panels. When completed, the project could reduce emissions into the atmosphere by a mind-boggling 400+ metric tons of carbon dioxide each year or enough gas to fill up 383 Washington monuments.

Now do we have your attention?
18 November, 2009 /

[click "Play" to hear Jon Hubbard on his up-coming courses]  Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts offers its own, original spin on Rosie the Riveter, the American icon representing women who worked in factories during WWII. This weekend, Saturday, November 14, and Sunday,...

18 November, 2009 /
2006-01-238a The economy may be in the deep freeze, but it's a hot time for the hospital on the hill, aka, the Telluride Historical Museum. Echoing the spike in circulation reported by the Wilkinson Public Library, the Telluride Historical Museum this week announced dramatic growth in a year otherwise characterized by downturns.
 
Visitor numbers to what is now Telluride's only museum – the building dates back to 1896, when it served as Telluride's hospital – have increased 12% over last year. Even more significant are increases around outreach initiatives: the Museum's programming impacted 85% more people this year over last, due largely to the first annual Heritage Festival in June, which drew 1500 spectators to the Butch Cassidy reenactment. School programming is also up by over 56%, due to a concerted effort by the Museum to engage local students.  Last month, for example, Museum staff and historian Rudy Davison accompanied Telluride Middle School 7th and 8th graders to the Tomboy ruins to discuss mining heritage and regional geology.
17 November, 2009 /

Telluride radio host Maribeth Clemente takes us on a tour of America's best zoos on her popular program, Travel Fun. The show airs tomorrow, Tuesday, November 17, 6:30 p.m., on KOTO radio in Telluride and at www.koto.org.  Visiting a zoo is one of the most...

16 November, 2009 /

You really wanted to be in Telluride this morning. We snowshoed up our favorite trail under Colorado blue skies tricked out with cotton ball clouds, breaking a path as we climbed through the heavy white snow that accumulated over the past two days....

16 November, 2009 /

This is a story with a happy ending about how more is more.

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Writer Sandra Dorr


Telluride's award-winning Wilkinson Public Library had humble beginnings.  In 1965 a bookmobile came into town once a week. Library founders Larry and Betty Wilkinson met with the town's fire department to request space in the old Quonset hut. Once the hut was ready to hold a small collection of books, the library opened two or three days a week, three or four hours a day. The primary line item in the budget was coal-fired heat paid for by donations. At that time, the library's entire collection consisted of hand-me-downs from local citizens or from other libraries discarded titles. Fast forward to the present, the award-winning Wilkinson Public Library boasts 20,000 square foot of well-used, well-loved space. In 2008, for example, its bricks and mortar housed 638 programs, a number bound to be topped by this year's rich, eclectic offerings thanks to the efforts of Program Coordinator Scott Doser. A look at this week's schedule –  FREE and open to the general public – tells the tale.

16 November, 2009 /