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Learning adventures across the globe
from Beacon Senior News You’ve probably heard of road warriors—harried business people who are constantly traveling for work. That doesn’t sound like much fun, does it? But for seniors traveling with Road Scholar, it’s possible to live it up and learn while seeing the world. Montrose residents Mabel Risch and Beverly Wilson have each traveled with…
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What We Can Learn from Denver’s “Blue Mustang”
from adobeairstream.com in March 2009 Rachel Hultin, a Denver real estate developer, has launched a Facebook page opposing Denver International Airport’s Blue Mustang. A dare after a night out drinking with friends turned into a media frenzy for Hultin, who has wanted to crowd-source a response to the Luis Jimenez sculpture that greets visitors at the airport. Hultin has…
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Denver’s First Perplexing Biennial
from adobeairstream.com September 2009 The Denver Biennial of the Americas has some awesome growing pains. Denver artists and art dealers are getting nervous. So are conference planners, hotel bookers and purveyors of the creative economy in Mile High City. The Biennial of the Americas, scheduled June 24-August 12, 2010 is a scant 9 months away.…
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A magnificent return to a passion long buried
Feb 27, 2023 12:11PM ● By Leanne Goebel D.Jo was 9 when she told her mother she wanted to learn to play the violin. She started with a rental, but her mother Wilma told her that if she practiced, she could get her own. “I just fell in love with it,” said 76-year-old D.Jo, eyes…
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To sleep, perchance to dream, an ancient life
It was shutting down. Little by little the synapses were going out, like the stars in the sky, twinkling in one moment and imploding in upon them self into nothing. She felt it. She knew each day a few more neurons stopped firing and that she was slowly being transformed from a vibrant, living galaxy…
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15 Artists at Kirkland Museum Not Radical At All
Art Exhibit at Kirkland Museum, featuring artists who broke with tradition, closed on August 14th. (Originally published on AdobeAirstream in 2011) “The influence of decadent Parisians…Picasso and Cezanne..has even been felt in the West. Santa Fe has been damaged by it and Denver has not wholly escaped the blight… . In Western art, Western literature…
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Ultimate Snowbirds
Many of us long to be seasonal migrants and fly south for the winter like the sparrows and grosbeaks. Some of us are lucky enough to take vacation time and hit the beach while the winter winds blow across Western Colorado. Others come north from their southern sunshine to experience snow skiing and snowboarding. Still,…
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Whole Lotta Love
May 03, 2022 03:48PM ● By Leanne Goebel Robert Plant blew her kisses when she toured with him and Jimmy Page. But she deflected those kisses, preferring the kiss of the bow on the strings of her cello. Martha Ditto played with the Led Zeppelin duo on their No Quarter Tour in 1995. The tour…
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We have a commitment issue
It’s time to make a commitment to one another: To our neighbors; to our coworkers; to the stranger on the sidewalk and the person with an opposing political party sign in their yard; even the “friend” on Facebook or Twitter who can only argue and disagree. Commitment means dedication, loyalty, and devotion. A commitment is…
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The Art of Change from Aspen Magazine Summer 2017
LAND & SEA ART Aspen artist Celia Gregory fuses her love of nature with community. When designing the Aspen Institute during the mid 1950s, Herbert Bayer honored the Bauhaus philosophy of merging design and the living world in one holistic creation. But it is Bayer’s earthen works, “Earth Mound” (or “Grass Mound”) and “Marble Garden,”…
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