December 2012

[caption id="attachment_26439" align="alignright" width="150"] Kandinsky[/caption] On a two-day whirlwind trip to the Big Apple, we hung with a group of artists who lived at the same time and were similar in the fact they marched to their own drum. Or drums. Since their chosen paths were...

For 12 years, Telluride Foundation consistently supports regional nonprofits, awarding grants to 76 local organizations in 2012 The end of the year brings an extra holiday gift to many local nonprofit organizations that serve the Telluride community and region. On Friday, December 28, the Telluride Foundation...

Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is, like Wordwoman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. And like Rosemerry, is brilliant and very very quirky. Witness his riff on 2013,  a tip of the hat to Voltaire and a...

Editor's note: Over the years, I have had the privilege of interviewing The Bear on several occasions, always memorable. The first interview was just before the millennium in 2000, when I asked him to share his views on the 21st century. We also talked about...

It was probably the most meaningful gift I gave anyone over the holidays. I spent days putting together pictures of my husband and kids, rounding up photos of my brothers and their families, and it took hours to match all the faces to the birthdays...

Weak surface high pressure is over Colorado this morning keeping cold air over the region with zero or below temps in the mountains and lower valleys.  Air temperatures will increase during the day along with cloud cover and flow will turn to the southwest as...

Editor’s note: In his doctoral dissertation, Pastor Pat Bailey of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church is claiming the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its understanding of mission, the need for a more natural, integrative theology and for an earth-focused, contextual approach...

Since the first primal grunt, humans have heavily relied on communication to survive. We use the art of language to sculpt our society, to stimulate our economy, and to describe the glorious beauty of nature. Without an effective method of communication, chaos would reign and...

Editor’s note:  Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. And it just earned its fifth star in a row, which puts The Wilkinson Public Library into an elite club...

December 27 to January 3, 2012    Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Saturn   Evening: Mars, Jupiter  Here we are, living the last days of the Julian calendar year 2012. The Mayan End Time date of 12.21.12 has passed. We are walking upon a new road,...