Beyond Telluride

The Telluride Mushroom Festival (TMF)  is back for the 43rd year in a row. In just a few weeks from now, the Town of Telluride will be taken over by amanita hat-wearing, mold- and spore-worshipping mycelium fanatics. Go here for the 2023 official Telluride Mushroom Festival schedule. Sorry,...

On the Fourth of July, people tend to put red state/blue state issues aside and, per F. Scott Fitzgerald, “stand at moral attention,” saluting the Stars and Stripes as one nation. On that day, we are meant to honor the young men and women who...

Father’s Day is a celebration honoring, well, fathers. The holiday also celebrates fatherhood in general, paternal bonds, and the influence of dads in society. For some, however, Father’s Day is shorthand for pulling out a wallet. Again. Gifts of watches and Fitbits, beard trimmers, bespoke...

Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation celebrates 30 years of the Wild West Fest (WWF). The event takes place June 4-10, 2023, a week of empowering activities for 37 kids from various Boys and Girls Clubs of America including Mobile, AL; Wichita Falls, TX; Farmington, NM; and...

'The greatest love is a mother’s; Then comes a dog’s, then comes a sweetheart's," Polish proverb. Happy Mother’s Day Telluride – and beyond. We celebrate the holiday by sharing Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer's heart-wrenching, words, her pearls forming a mala, something to mediate on. Rosemerry clearly...

In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her mother’s church in Grafton, W.V. to celebrate Mother’s Day on the second anniversary of her mother’s death, the second Sunday of May. After establishing Mother’s Day in Philadelphia, Jarvis...