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Editor's note: This is the first in a series of  five poems by our favorite Word Woman, the lovely Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, each meant to set the heart aflutter in the roll up to Valentine's Day. So if you think you can't find the right...

Community Response to Building Common Ground #1 plus Transition Our Way The Telluride-based New Community Coalition and the Wilkinson Public Library were thrilled to have such a fantastic turnout and post-presentation dialogue at last week's Building Common Ground and Green Business Roundtable gatherings. Thursday evening, January 2,...

Shadows Heard, Not Seen Sun or shade, the groundhog wakes wide-eyed from a state of hibernation as early as January, rolls over in its burrow and listens to the dark sounds overhead. A fox stalks a pheasant through brush, two deer flinch at the wind knocking snow loose from a limb and the owl’s...

Wilkinson Public Library is one of 30 libraries nationwide to receive programming support from the Fetzer Institute and the American Library Association for “Building Common Ground: Discussions of Community, Civility and Compassion.” The nine- month program series introduces the tenets of Slow Money  to inspire...

They call it The Big Easy, one of several nicknames for New Orleans. And that’s where Bobbi and I, along with 498 other indie booksellers from North America, will gather today for our annual three days of learning about how to survive the economy in...

Lawry de Bivort is a long-time part-time Tellurider, and is just now making Telluride his "real" home. Like so many in this worldly community, Lawry has several other dimensions to his being. While most of us were watching TV coverage of the uprisings called the...

Meet Glitter Girl Margo Talbot at Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library this Thursday, January 12, at 6pm, for a reading and discussion of her first book All That Glitters: A Climber’s Journey Through Addiction and Depression. Sometimes you have to go through a little hell to get...

Pentimento The pond will not decide if it’s solid or liquid. Some mornings a palette of ice stipples the sunrise. Some evenings the wind stirs the surface with brushstrokes. It’s a composition in flux, counterpointed by three ducks with their rumps sticking out the water....