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10 Jan THE NEW COMMUNITY COALITION: UPCOMING EVENTS
Emily Kuehn, our OSM/VISTA offers MLK Volunteer Day workshop and training in basic home energy efficiency in Norwood, Colorado. First, what’s an OSM/VISTA? That’s a Volunteer In Service To America through the Office of Surface Mining! Emily has been with us since last summer, working...
10 Jan BOOK IT: CLIMBER AND AUTHOR MARGO TALBOT AT LIBRARY
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...
10 Jan TIO IN PARIS: VIEWS OF HEAVEN & HELL
Talk about window treatment. The boys from the 13th century really got it down. The most famous feature of the 13th-century royal chapel known as Sainte-Chapelle are the stained glass windows: 15 of them fill the nave and apse and a large rose window dominates...
09 Jan MASTERING SECURITY: LOCKS
A citizen asked me the other day what was the number one thing she could do to improve her security. I told her simply to make sure that her doors are locked when she is home. I would rather have her leave the doors unlocked...
09 Jan TIO IN PARIS: LET THEM EAT (KING) CAKE
Telluride is not the only place to achieve (or underachieve) in hedonistic bliss. There’s also Paris. Mais oui: Paris. Air France touched down at 6:30 a.m. and within hours I found myself a refugee from Woody Allen’s latest gambit. Paris. Always an epiphany. Sometimes, like...
08 Jan POETS CORNER: PENTIMENTO
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.
07 Jan SNOW SUNDAY: IMPROVE YOUR SKATE SKIING
“It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” Mickey Mantle Substitute sport for game in the above quote, and Mantle pretty much nailed my naivety about skate skiing. For the past fifteen or so years, I’ve always...
07 Jan DOG’S BEST FRIEND: THE DOGS OF COTTONWOOD
If there was any doubt that Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel loves dogs, this week’s video should clear that up. All the dogs in Ted’s care, boarding, training, living at Cottonwood, are “his” dogs. Which is why Gina the Dog (early in the...