[caption id="attachment_36467" align="alignright" width="300"] Ullr (image from northernpaganism.com)[/caption] Let's start with the obvious question: Who the heck is Ullr? The best answer I found was at northernpaganism.com. Ullr is a very old god of the northern lands, so old that by the time the Iron Age Norse myths...
Some speak of the holidays in terms of "endurance" and "survival." It's all about materialism and family psycho-showdowns, right? Well, not so much. Just ask any child - or Google your own history for fond memories. Chestnuts roasting on open fires. Jack Frost nipping at...
[caption id="attachment_31094" align="alignright" width="223"] TFF #40 by Dean Tavoularis[/caption] For all your hardcore cinephiles, this just in from the Telluride Film Festival: Warm Holiday Greetings. We hope you enjoyed our 40th as much as we did. We're now looking forward to a great year ahead and the 41st...
The Telluride Nordic Association (TNA) is a 501©(3) non-profit dedicated to the education and enhancement of Nordic skiing for individuals of all ages and abilities in the Telluride region. TNA has an all-volunteer working board which spends countless hours making Nordic skiing a reality. Still,...
The week before Thanksgiving, we received an email from Pamela Zoline, co-founder of the Telluride Institute, inviting us to the annual Bridal Veil Living Classroom gathering to hear presentations by the eight students who participated in the program in 2013. The event is scheduled for Monday,...
University Centers of the San Miguel is the Regional Center for the Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC). It also partners with Colorado Mesa University (CMU), Prescott College, Western State Colorado University, Fort Lewis College, and Northern Arizona University. Since its inception in 2005, UCSM is the only higher education organization...
Talent is arguably the two percent you leave on the table after the perspiration. We received the following email from a program that is all about the two percent: America's Got Talent (Season 9). My name is Lindsay Spaulding and I'm a Casting Producer for America's Got...
One down. Two to go. Just about everywhere, the parade of cooking, shopping, and wrapping just picked up a new head of steam. While it is true that scribbling cards each year brings us closer to people we only get to see from time to time,...
A series of vignettes based on the Peanuts comic strip written and directed by Jennifer Julia. Performed by students in grades 6 - 8 live at the historic Sheridan Opera House. Dec. 6-8, 2013, 6 p.m. nightly Good grief! Join a cast of beloved characters: Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy,...
[caption id="attachment_36310" align="alignright" width="300"] The Telluride Ski Tree, by Anton Viditz Ward & Friends[/caption] People with quirky personalities are drawn to resort towns like ours. And that's a good thing. Counterculture types tend to think up frankly awesome, if completely eccentric, sometimes history-making things. (Remember L.L....
