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Montrose’s Death Cafe
Death. We don’t like to talk about it. We usually fight it or try to ignore it. But for as long as we’ve lived, we’ve died. Death is inevitable. Earlier societies were much better at talking about death. Some of our primitive ancestors believed in life after death, viewing it as nothing more than a…
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Two Brain Injuries, Ten Years in Federal Court, and Walking My Own Path
I hung up the phone. A runnel of tears cascaded down my cheeks. The floor gave way, and I was falling, tumbling, spinning, yet I could barely move. Somehow I made it to the master bedroom and closed the door. I fell to the floor and wailed, kicking my feet and pounding my fists against…
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Writing
Crayons on white walls Finger-paint on newsprint A voiceless child struggles to find The image The color Of her feelings Colored chalk on sidewalks Hangman, hopscotch She tries to connect Spray paint on buildings Frustrated youth Vandalized by her emotions Red ink on skin Across her wrist Marking blue vein Ashen pages— Voices in permanent…
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Lullaby
Sleep in the storm, rain on your head Fall, little one, softly into bed Hear the raindrops sprinkle While around you, stars twinkle Sleep, little one, dream the colors of the sun Under the clouds Listen to resonant thunder Sleep in the storm, rain on your head Fall, little one, softly into bed Lie upon…
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The Systematic American Landscape
“There is perhaps no central theme to American national identity than the land. Over the years, it has served as a wellspring of aesthetic beauty, spiritual sustenance, and economic opportunity.” Thus reads a wall sign at the Corcoran Gallery of Art beneath the title “Nature as Nation: 19th Century American Landscapes from the Collection.” The…
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I lean in to hear you whisper
I lean close to listen, talking out the opposite side of my mouth, your words in my ear, spewing forth from my lips parted to speak what you said, your whisper nearly inaudible to me. What did you say? I could ask with a glance, or you would correct me when I got it wrong—not…
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Nobody reads what you write; why bother?
It was a sunny August afternoon in 2012. I sat with a friend on a relatively empty Denver restaurant patio under a green awning. We drank terrible, sticky-sweet mojitos and talked. My friend, an older man, a cellist, and a retired Merrill Lynch Investment Banker, was planning a trip to Rome, Prague, and Paris. At…
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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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