Tim DeChristopher is a familiar name on campus. In fact he could be the poster boy for the Mountainfilm in Telluride. Not only does the man embody Mountainfilm’s motto, “Celebrating the Indomitable Spirit,” he is the exclamation point on the event’s driving idea: awareness into action. Tim began...
For the post several weeks, I have been spending time, about 20 minutes a day, with Oprah and Deepak, following the latest in their series of guided meditation practices - and loving it. Meditation quiets the noise in my head, calms and clarifies. The list of...
“Don’t let him play so close to the edge!” I warned. “He’s fine,” said my husband. He gets frustrated by my helicopter parenting, the way I constantly hover too close, trying to protect the kids. “Okay,” I fumed. “But he’s gonna fall in.” KERPLOP! He emerged from...
April 9 to 16, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Saturn Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter It’s howling wind outside and Spring has sprung. I’ve been thinking about the world, and how much it seems to have changed since the Mayan Long Count Calendar end date of December 21,...
The Telluride Foundation announces several great workshops and an ED Breakfast coming up in late April & May. RSVP if you haven’t already: 1) Great Strategic Planning for Mission Impact Part of the “Great Governance” series sponsored by Western Slope Rural Philanthropy Days, this session will be taught by Kelleen...
Writing for Details, Lisa Silva put together a short list of “The 7 Healthiest Foods You Aren’t Eating (Yet)." [caption id="attachment_49863" align="aligncenter" width="150"] The spice turmeric is a powerhouse. Anti-inflammatory compounds like curcumin, which may treat conditions like asthma, heart disease, and cancer. Top of the...
April 2 to 9, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Saturn Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter The April 4th lunar eclipse* in Aries-Libra is the third of four total lunar eclipses in a row, a relatively rare astronomical event known as a lunar tetrad. The last lunar tetrad was...
“Still Alice” just played at The Nugget. But even you if missed the movie, its premise was grist for the media mill: Julianne Moore is Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, having inherited the life-changing disease from her father. It could happen...
March 26 to April 2, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Saturn Evening: Venus, Mars, Jupiter I awoke in predawn darkness to a cloudless, starry sky. To the east, the first glow of morning backlit the jagged San Juan horizon. I stepped outside to feel the air. The...
The complaint is epidemic: not enough time in a day for a consistent practice. But what if seven minutes is all you need to enhance your life with yoga? Telluride Yoga Festival regular Mark Whitwell created an app called “I Promise,” which contains an elegant breath-with-movement...
