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February 2011

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

(Ed. note: Rosemerry often sends along her poetry for special events to Telluride Inside... and Out. Enjoy her Valentine's Day offering)

Yes I Will


Heart After all this time, we are still
just beginning to fly. Though our hair

is more white, our wings
are still unfolding, still a little wet.

And there is so much sky
we haven’t seen. If I close

my eyes I can feel it, the wind,
how it gathers beneath us

and lifts. How terrifying, love,
to not know what comes next.

And how wondrous to know
we are not bound together

and choose anyway to leap
in unison so we might see, after all these

paths we’ve walked, what
wings and a new song can do.



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13 February, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Rev. Doug Bottorff's conversation with Susan]

 

 

Rev J Douglas Bottorff Thanks to its Reverend, Pat Bailey, Telluride's Christ Church is becoming much more than a house of worship in the conventional sense of sheep gathering around a shepherd to pray and heal. Christ Church is becoming a change-maker in the Telluride community, from a place to study world religion to how to live a more sustainable life in concert with the environment. Next up: altering our internal landscape through meditation.

Thursday evening, February 17, 7:30 p.m., Reverend Doug Bottorff teaches a class on meditation. The evening is part of Christ Church's ongoing silent meditation program held every Thursday night.

13 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan talks with Jeb Berrier about Comedy Fest]

 

Jeb, LipSync Love is no laughing matter, except in Telluride, where comedy follows the BIg Day for the kid in diapers with the quiver of arrows.

The 12th annual Telluride Comedy Fest begins at the Sheridan Opera House with a Locals' Night on Thursday, February 17 and continues through the weekend, closing Sunday, February 20. Shows, 8 p.m. nightly, are all hosted by Telluride actor/director/producer Jeb Berrier.

13 February, 2011 /

The team negotiates with the village of Jomsom in Nepal only to find thier world of oppurtunity getting smaller. Ben Clark devises a plan, unwilling to give up. Follow Clark and teammate Jon Miller as they share the experience reviewing the film footage and often...

12 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Sasha speaks with Susan about SquidShow]

 

Valentines Poster When is a "Squid" a Cupid? The answer has nothing to less to do with more arms to hold you and more to do with ties that bind.

Have you been married forever, but it feels like yesterday? Is your crush new and fresh or still hidden? Is your best friend down in the mouth and needing a quicker pick me up? Have Telluride's Squids deliver the perfect Valentine's Day tribute: a Squid Cupidgram. (The nonviolent troupe replaces arrows with wit.)

12 February, 2011 /

 It's tired but true to say Telluride is a unique corner of our Blue Marble. It follows that it's local institutions are just as unusual. The five-star Wilkinson Public Library acts as a community center and regularly shows documentary and feature films. The Telluride Historical Museum regularly produces special events, including theatrical, on-mountain (Monday morning's Ski Into History), and bar crawls. Christ Church, focuses on sustainability, world religion, and meditation. And now St. Patrick's Church is turning itself into a concert hall for a world-class operatic tenor/musical theatre performer and concert singer.

On Thursday, February 24, 6 p.m., cocktails, and 7 p.m.,concert, tenor Dennis McNeil returns to Telluride for an encore performance at St. Pat's. The evening is a fundraiser for the 115-year-old house of worship in need of restoration. The program includes Broadway tunes, spirituals, and Irish tunes.

12 February, 2011 /

February 10 to 17, 2011
Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus and Saturn  Evening: Jupiter

Aquarian Self-Awareness and Self-Knowledge

Aquarius As we move through the last week of Aquarius and venture ever closer to spring, solar rays become more direct and days grow longer.  We have passed the February mid-winter cross-quarter mark and drift toward Pisces, the final zodiac month of the natural tropical year. Seeds of hope and inspiration float upon proverbial horizons, we are being awakened to metaphorical ends and new beginnings. It’s time to look up and all around us, check in with what’s going on inside and outside, step out of the past, embrace the present and center ourselves in self-awareness.

The World Self-awareness gives birth to self-knowledge and self-knowledge awakens our personal power, an unremitting ally in the spiritual warrior’s journey on the path of heart and soul. And the fixed-air sign of Aquarius is all about knowledge, spirit and heart. It’s the archetype of the individual in the collective, the unique contribution that each one of us gives to the whole - the unusual idea, the special gift, the act of kindness or the endearing art of friendship. Loyalty, camaraderie and fellowship are Aquarian ideals; revolution, rebellion and invention are its means. In this wild and wacky world, with Uranian change as an ever-constant companion, let us be blessed with the enlightened detachment and inspirational heart of the Waterbearer. Surround yourself with people, places and things that inspire and uplift your spirit and strengthen your resolve to make yourself and this Earth a happier, healthier place in which to live and grow. May peace, love and joy be our friends and companions, the sun, moon and planets our guides and the ever-expanding possibilities of the ever-expanding universe be the numinous amniotic waters in which we birth our dreams.

11 February, 2011 /

[click "Play", Joni Gotthelf talks about amethysts]

 

Joni Amethyst A companion post to our weekly astrology column, Cynthia Zehm's Alacazem, Telluride Inside... and Out's monthly birthstone post from Telluride's Dolce Jewels. February's birthstone is amethyst.

Amethysts are the crown jewels of the quartz family, occurring naturally as crystals within rocks.

The purple gemstone owes its name to the ancient Greek: "a" equals "not" when affixed to a noun and the noun "methustos" means "to intoxicate." So amethysts, meaning "sober," are what to wear when bar crawling Friday nights. Back in the day gods hobnobbed with fellow Greeks, this gemstone was not too surprisingly associated with Dionysus, god of wine. It was common practice to serve the grape from goblets made of amethyst in the belief the container would prevent overindulgence. (We refer you to stories about Dionysian rituals to understand just how well that turned out. Not.)

10 February, 2011 /

[click "Play" to hear this week's conversation with Ashley Deppen]   Color associations may vary within a culture at different periods and between cultures across the globe. But the facts are indisputable: colors convey emotions. Telluride is a colorful town. So and so is...

10 February, 2011 /

 Students from the 2010 Snowshoe Overnight brave the elements at 11,000 Ft. February 10, 2011 Telluride Institute's Watershed Education Program (WEP) is launching the first annual Nucla Middle School Snowshoe Overnight this week from February 10th to 11th!  WEP will be conducting this program in...

10 February, 2011 /