[click "Play" to listen to Walter Wright talk about community leadership] Now and again, Telluriders play nice, achieving our goals through a sense of common purpose. The 350.org day (Saturday, October 24) is a shining example of mutual efforts succeeding big...
Picasso famously said: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
For eight years, Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts has honored regional – students – Telluride, Ridgway, Ouray, Norwood, Nucla, Naturita and Dolores, public, private and home-schooled –– for creativity and interest in the arts through an annual Youth Art Awards program.
Andrea Benda (r) with friend and
council colleague, Lulu Hunt
Retiring Telluride councilwoman Andrea Benda spends a great deal of time wandering around a cemetery. She is not maudlin. She has nothing to bury, not even a hatchet, because she long ago she made peace with all her council colleagues. Telluride's Lone Tree Cemetery is simply one of the stops on the town tours her company, Explore Telluride!, offers.
Up in the air has several meanings for Telluride's "Glider Bob" Saunders, who has gotten lots of practice just idling his engines. Glider Bob is one of the candidates running for re-election to Telluride's Town Council, so tonight he awaits election results. After...
Trio Solisti with Ayano Ninomiya, violin; David Harding, viola
Telluride Inside... and Out's stories about our very memorable day in Chelsea continue with a recap of our visit to the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, 545 West 25th Street, to see an exhibit of monumental sculptures by Red Grooms. Why we went has everything to do with jonesing for the child-like wonder of the artist's work, cosmic connections, Telluride, and our dear friend Stephen Wald.
Stephen Wald died that very same Thursday, October 22, after a long battle against Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. I suspect his passing happened close to the time a group of us went to the Marlborough to celebrate our friend, a successful businessman, philanthropist, accomplished athlete, photographer, and art lover/collector, because Clint and I knew Red Grooms held a special place in Stephen's life: specifically by a window in the entry hall of the elegant Aldasoro home he shared with his beloved wife Sheila, also a collector. Telluride's The New Community Coalition lead the charge locally on the global celebration of climate action, 350.org day, an event which brought together individuals, nonprofits and local businesses to finding local living solutions for worldwide climate change.350.org day was also a perfect time to...
In communities around the world like Telluride, 350.org day celebrations on October 24 represented a giant step in raising global and government awareness about the realities of climate change and the need to cap carbon emissions to 350 parts per million starting yesterday. 
