Rebel with a Cause: Bill McKibben was the theme of last night’s Colorado Environmental Coalition (CEC) fund raising event held in the Seawell Ballroom at the Denver Center for Performing Arts. The nearly 500 people attending this annual event endured the initial silent and live auctions to hear the noted author, environmentalist and climate change […]
“When the river is ice, ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life.” William Stafford There was no ice on the Virgin River when we hiked the Zion National Park trail on that March Sunday. But Stafford’s words always haunt me whenever I am near a […]
Abraham Lincoln was born on Charles Darwin’s birthday; Charles Darwin was born on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday: both came into the world on February 12, 1809. Two infants destined for infamy: I picture Lincoln focused backwards in time, called to clean up the mess left by our Founding Fathers over the issue of slavery; […]
Anyone confused or skeptical about “Climate Change”? Is weather different from climate? “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.” …. Robert Heinlein, American science fiction author “Climate lasts all the time, and weather only a few days.” ….. Mark Twain, Both of these often repeated quotations indicate there is a difference between […]
As February unfolds, its first day brings sub zero weather: minus seventeen degrees comes as a shock after the previous week’s sixty degrees-plus. Comments abound on the Internet mocking ‘global warming’ even as the coldest winter in U.S. history enfolds the eastern two-thirds of the continent. In Denver we’re on the backside of […]
Applause erupted from the filled Boettcher Concert Hall as Jennifer Koh walked onto the stage, carefully clutching her 1727 Stradivarius violin for a program of Baroque music composed by two contemporaries Bach and Vivaldi. Guest artist Koh soon had the audience mesmerized with her ability to lift the notes from the paper, deftly translate these […]
As we entered the stockyard arena, the unmistakable fragrance of livestock sent me tumbling back into a past life. It was a horrific sight for a 9 year-old farm boy to see on a northern Ohio late summer afternoon. There was Pal, my hoped-to-be prize winning sheep dangling from the wire fence, its right front […]
First the sound, then the sight of a sea of people appeared over the crest of the hill on East Colfax Ave. The surreal sight of an empty artery through the city was suddenly replaced by tens of thousands of like-intended people marading[ 1 ] past the gold leaf doom of the State Capitol to […]
Four…. Three….. Two….. One…. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Right on cue, the tops of the buildings on The Strip of this City of Lights erupted into flares of red, green, yellow, and blue fire in celebration of the upcoming Gregorian Year 2011. Gail and I learned from the Universe Story that the upcoming year is more […]
“The new year dawns bright, clear and mysterious. May it be one of inner peace and world peace for all living things.” (from a Unitarian Universalist Service Committee holiday card, saved and savored since the mid-eighties) We welcome January, the gate of the year. This first month refers both to the goddess Jana, the Mother of […]