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Durango Independent Film Fest goes virtual March 3-12 p8

For phabulous pho, broth is the real game stopper p11

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4 La Vida Local

What to do with a neighbor who’s a horse’s a**

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Crossing the line

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On the small screen

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Durango Independent Film Fest goes virtual for 16th annual

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Grid lock Could it happen here? A look at our power strengths and weaknesses

by Sam Brasch and Miguel Otarola / Colorado Public Radio

Ear to the ground: “If I die in a road rage incident, just know that I died doing what I loved.”

– Local woman who has an unhealthy predilection for angry driving

The spirit of ’71

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The Durango High School Ski Team of 1971 is getting the band back together.

This weekend, members of the team, which took the state alpine and Nordic championships 50 years ago, are gathering at Purgatory to relive the glory and prove they still got the knees.

The weekend will include an alpine race Feb. 27 on Upper Hades – the site of the giant slalom race in 1971 – as well as a Nordic race the next day, Feb. 28, at the Durango Nordic Center.

The 1971 win was not just a fluke, mind you: 1971 was the fifth state championship in six years for the team, which was coached by Jerry Davis. Many young Durango skiers placed or scored in the 1971 race, including seniors Daryl Tomberlin and Mary El Hogan Emrich (both still Durango residents); junior Mary Lee Atkins; and sophomore Jack Turner, also local.

Tomberlin, who won the giant slalom event, was named to the All-State Ski Team in both slalom and giant slalom and was also crowned as Colorado’s Giant Slalom King.

As for the ’71 Nordic event, that was won by senior Britt Lovelace. To commemorate that win, fellow DHS Nordic team member and area resident Ronny Yeager will be in attendance at Sunday’s race. Although Yeager – a two-time Olympic

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The 1971 state champion DHS Ski Team cross country competitor (1972 and 1976) – technically wasn’t at the 1971 race, he has a pretty good excuse. He was competing in Finland at the World Junior Championships at the time.

Saturday’s alpine race happens from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. on the Upper Hades NASTAR course. Purgatory has arranged for free lift tickets to members of the 1971 team who wish to attend. The Nordic race will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Here comes the bus Durango School District 9-R is getting on the bus – the electric bus, that is. Last week, 9-R announced it won a $328,803 grant for a fully electric school bus and charging infrastructure. The 81-seat bus is expected to be operational by next fall.

The grant was funded through the Regional Air Quality Council, which aims to improve Colorado’s air quality by replacing pre-2009 fleet vehicles with electric and renewable natural gas vehicles. LPEA will contribute an additional $120,000 for charging infrastructure and bus costs.

Beyond the environmental benefits, the ebus will bring health benefits as well. Roughly 95 percent of America’s school buses run on diesel, which emits pollution linked to asthma, respiratory illness and cancer.

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LaVidaLocal The final frontier Homeowner’s log, Earth date 2020.02.20, 1200 hours: Once again, I must report the trespasses of my neighbor. Let’s continue to call him Jerry (which is not his real name) in case he surprises me by reading this newspaper, or reading anything at all. In this instance, his trespass is trespassing.

Jerry recently acquired a horse. That in itself is not a crime, so long as he didn’t steal it. I quite like having a horse in the neighborhood. One of the reasons I moved out of our dense urban areas in the first place was the distinct lack of wildlife in city life. Sure, the bears came round for tea with increasing regularity – but I wanted REAL animals for neighbors.

Be careful what you wish for: I got Jerry. And Jerry has decided my front yard is a thoroughfare for his horse.

Being such a tough guy, Jerry started riding his horse through my landscaping when I was not at home. I caught him in the act anyway. First, I saw the hoofprints in the dirt. They led straight to the horse, over there a ways, and Jerry sat atop the horse.

“Jerry,” I hollered, earning points for originality. “Did you just ride through here?”

“Yeah,” he hollered back – points, I suppose, for honesty.

“I don’t want you riding through here again,” I hollered back.

Jerry looked around. “I don’t see no fence,” he said, despite the line of hoof prints leading STRAIGHT THROUGH THE GATEWAY IN THE FENCE. I hollered back something super polite, and he hollered back something about fighting, and I stood my ground like John Wayne only quieter, and he stared back, and I calculated whether I could get back inside my car faster than Jerry could run me down with his horse, and then he took his horse and went home.

All kinds of kudos for me. I set my boundaries. I defended my home. I bought a better gate. But judging by the continued hoof prints, Jerry continues not to get the message anytime I am not at home.

Part of me wishes we could sit down with a mediator, Jerry and me and his horse, and talk this through. But I left mediators behind in civilization with the bears. So I turned for help to my next best options: Captains Kirk and Picard.

I grew up without their guidance. In this world, there are Star Wars peo-

ple, and everyone else. I still pretend to be Han Solo. But I finally, for the sake of my own cultural edification, and also because it’s now available on Netflix, decided to watch that other Star thing. So now I debate which one would better solve the incidents with my neighbor.

Kirk would seek a peaceful solution. He’d want to … understand … my neighbor and … communicate … however possible. Then he would punch Jerry several times, get captured in his dungeon, and escape by seducing his daughter.

Picard would also want a peaceful solution. He would hail Jerry and speak to him on a Zoom call. Then he would send a diverse selection of his ensemble cast to Jerry’s house for some cultural misunderstandings before ultimately resolving the impasse by asking Reading Rainbow to reroute the capacitor conductivity circuits through the inverse warp field motivator.

Neither approach sounds exactly right for me. Jerry is too large for me to punch effectively, and his daughter is not yet of age. Nor do I even have a capacitor conductivity circuit to reroute. But still – I can derive insights from both captains while I forge my own solution: Mean no harm. Communicate clearly and firmly. Seek harmony.

Kiss any sexy aliens, or send my first officer to do so.

I’m a writer. All I have, really, is my words. Isn’t that how Starfleet captains, deprived of phasers and starships and story editors, would solve their problems? But Jerry is also a bully who may respond to a more physical presence. So I have resolved to establish peaceful relations with words made manifest: a No Trespassing sign.

But not any ol’ ugly sign. I’m making my own that says it just like James T. or Jean-Luc would have, if they hadn’t had FCC censors. And I won’t make just one. I’ll manufacture dozens of them, and give them to all the other neighbors who contend with Jerry. And since the sign won’t reference him directly by name – if he reads himself into “Don’t be a dick,” that’s on him – I can sell them to everyone who doesn’t want to deal with their own Jerrys anymore. (Taking pre-orders now!)

Then I’ll have moderately more income than I do now, which won’t matter in the long run because we do away with the need for personal wealth long before the 24th century anyway. But in the meantime, I’ll live a more secure, contented and peaceful life. Presuming Jerry’s horse can read.

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Thumbin’It More runners in the race to get the world vaccinated against coronavirus, with a new one-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson gaining FDA approval for emergency use this week

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– Zach Hively

Shout House Arrival at the mind-boggling and bleak 500,000 milestone of American deaths from COVID in one year

9-R rolling with the green wave, winning a $328,803 grant for an electric school bus and charging infrastructures

The spruce beetle epidemic continuing its march across the San Juans, with recent aerial footage showing the outbreak spreading west toward the high country around Silverton

The return of both the Purgatory sixpack and the KSUT 90.1 radio signal this week after prolonged outages for both of the local necessities

Another record-setting low flow on the Animas River last week, reinforcing fears that despite recent moisture, we’re not out of the drought woods yet

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Shannon Stevens was snowmobiling through the backcountry of Haines, Ak., when nature called, but she decided to wait until she got back to the outhouse at her brother’s yurt. It took a while to get back, so she was in a hurry when she unzipped and sat, but she stood up much more quickly because she was bit in the butt by a black bear that was waiting below. Shannon was bloodied but OK, however, the real story here is that no, contrary to popular belief, bears do not go in the woods.

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With NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars, the Telegraph asked, “Who or what would you like to send to Mars?”

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“Ice cream and a joint, the perfect interstellar peaceoffering combo.”

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“NASA’s Mars Polar Lander. It crashed just before landing and like many of us, it just needs a second shot.”

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“Mitch McConnell.”

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“Jamie Spears. #FreeBritney.”

“Someone to keep Mitch company, like ‘Alien vs. Predator.’”

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Justice not one size fits all To the editor, I am writing this letter to Judge Annie Woods in regards to the Feb. 20 article in the Durango Herald highlighting her work in La Plata County. Before I get to the heart of why I am writing, I want to share a little bit about myself. I moved to Durango in 2012 and have worked locally in both disability services and community mental health. I am currently a licensed professional counselor working in private practice. I share my background and time in the community for two reasons.

First, as a mental health professional trained in traumainformed care, I believe I have a valuable professional perspective to share. Secondly, while I am relatively new to Durango by Durango standards, I care deeply about this community, about mental health in general, and about social justice and anti-racism work.

I support restorative justice. For far too long our criminal justice system has been a poor substitute for robust and accessible mental health care. Progressive criminal-justice practices are something we should strive for particularly when they focus on oppressed and marginalized individuals and communities including BIPOC, people with disabilities, and individuals suffering from mental health conditions and/or addiction. These groups historically and currently bear the brunt of a punitive criminal justice system. Anecdotally, I have seen this pattern here in La Plata County – when I worked in crisis mental health and would visit the jail I was aware of a disproportionate amount of non-white inmates as well as inmates jailed as a result of behavior connected to mental health conditions and/or addiction. I believe that for La Plata County to have real restorative, progressive justice, this is information we need to confront and explore. 4

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From the perspective of a mental health professional, I would specifically like to offer feedback around the recent sentencing of Preston Pitcher. In the interest of transparency, I am currently employed at Riversage Family Counseling and was working there when Mr. Pitcher was arrested. In my work as a mental health professional, I have heard again and again how the criminal justice system fails trauma survivors. A traumainsensitive justice system and lack of consequences for perpetrators often deters survivors from reporting an assault or rape. If they do choose to report, little to no consequences for perpetrators can be invalidating and re-traumatizing. I would argue that the lack of jail time for Mr. Pitcher is the opposite of progressive, restorative justice. As Mr. Pitcher is to my knowledge a white, middle-class male, I would instead say that the lack of jail time in his sentencing maintains the status quo.

Restorative justice efforts should focus on the oppressed and marginalized communities I mentioned earlier, not on those already reaping the benefits of white privilege.

In the article, you talked about learning and growing in your work as a judge. Despite my disagreement with your sentencing in Mr. Pitcher’s case, I do want to recognize, support and uplift women who have fought hard to make room for themselves in historically maledominated professions. It is my hope that you will take my feedback, along with the feedback of community organizations like SASO and the words of trauma survivors, and reconsider what seems to be a blanket approach to restorative justice benefiting the already privileged. I also hope that we can continue to have real conversations in our community about race and criminal justice, and that those most oppressed by the criminal justice system will be the ones who benefit from progressive approaches going forward.

Thank you for your time.

– Anne Hosey, MA, LPC, Durango

Texas – you get what you vote for To the editor, When climate change produces extreme weather events as predicted, like the polar vortex dipping way south this month, or California’s extreme drought and fires in the summer of 2020, we need leaders in our elected officials.

Here’s what the elected Republicans of Texas had to say about another state’s woes with climate change: “California’s politicians did this, not the heat,” (Attorney General Paxton, 9/6/20). “This is what happens when the Democrats are left in charge” (Lt. Governor Patrick, 8/20/20). “California is unable to perform even basic functions … like having reliable electricity” (Sen. Cruz, 8/19/20). And Texas Gov. Greg Abbott quickly blamed renewable energy for the recent Texas power outages.

Why wouldn’t Texas political leaders listen to reason or the federal government in 2011 when the last polar vortex hit Texas and FERC recommended winterizing their grid? Is deregulation and supporting oil and gas worth the cost to Texas’ citizens? And will Texas’ Republican leaders now refuse the financial help offered by the federal government to repair its infrastructure and help its waterless citizens? Going it alone on the electrical grid didn’t seem to work too well. Not power sharing with other states and deregulation hit some pocket books to the tune of thousands of dollars for a week of electricity.

So I guess “Don’t mess with Texas” is a bit of an oxymoron. Seems like Texas messed with Texas.

Vote progress, not fear of working together or of a renewable future next time, Texas.

– Tim Thomas, Durango

Save lives; allow uphill at Purg To the editor, Killed via avalanches past two years: Peter (dear friend); Bert (my fitness student); Jeff and Olivia (locals) … add to this list? Twenty-eight others over the past

three years in Colorado. Many occurred in our San Juan Mountains, perhaps the most difficult mountain range to determine dynamic avalanche factors during humancaused climate change.

The reason I survived 20+ years as a sponsored extreme mountain athlete beginning in the ’80s? I listened to and respected the mountain! Thanks largely to Outside Magazine chronically promoting Durango as one of the “Top 10 Places to Live,” Durango is now a hotspot for “backcountry” (note: no true “backcountry” in Colorado exists; it’s all side country; park your Tacoma on the highway, ski a line, post it to the ‘Gram) skiers from Colorado’s Front Range and California yuppies. My native back yard has been broken to an overwhelming influx of powder-seeking, SM-addicted sophomores.

One way to stem this inevitable tide of “backcountry skiers” likely to be killed: allow uphill access at Purgatory.

There is a change.org petition you can sign. Search FB/IG for “Allow Access at Purgatory.” Nearly 500 have signed.

I thank Purgatory for allowing us uphillers access to Hesperus. Yet? We need more vert to train. Daddies like ilg? We don’t have time to “backcountry” ski consistently, nor take the risks of questionable snowloads.

Without uphill access at Purg we are pushed into skiing “backcountry” lines, possibly triggering avalanches, adding to the death toll.

The corporation owning Purgatory allows uphill access at four of its seven resorts! We can save lives by allowing uphill access at Purgatory!

– steve ilg, Durango

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A DIFF-erent approach Durango Independent Film Festival goes virtual March 3-12

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t’s a bittersweet 16th birthday for the Durango Independent Film Festival this year. Although COVID has put a damper on live festivities, the good news is the show will go on – at least virtually. The entire festival, including ancillary events, will move to the small screen this year, showing for an extended 10-day run with cheaper, family friendly ticket options.

“We know that it’s been a hard time for everybody, so we wanted to make the pass prices affordable,” Durango Film Executive Director Joanie Leonard said. “Plus we expanded the festival to 10 days to give people more time to watch films.”

This year’s online festival runs Wed., March 3 – Fri., March 12, and features 99 films, from shorts to documentaries to full features, including Native Cinema, adventure and a kids “Reel Learning” program. There will also be a full slate of Zoom Q&A sessions, morning “Coffee Talks” with filmmakers and evening “quarantinis” for those who want a peek behind the scenes. “We’re doing everything we can to keep the festival feel,” added Leonard.

Eager to keep filmmakers involved, DIFF organizers said they were forced to get creative this year on ways to engage filmmakers and the audience.

“We invited all of our filmmakers to Zoom sessions so we could meet them and answer any questions that they had,” DIFF marketing guru Cindy Coleman said. “Many of them said they’d been accepted to festivals and then never heard another word from the festival. They’ve been incredibly receptive to us reaching out.”

Another advantage to going virtual this year, the DIFF can be “attended” by anyone in the United States.

“Each year we sell passes to festival goers from all over the United States, so we wanted to continue to be inclusive and open up our viewing audience to all states,” Leonard said. “Some filmmakers have even requested we open up their films to other countries as well. We’re thrilled to say that only one film is geo-blocked to Colorado residents only, at the request of the distributor.”

There are three price options for passes this year: $55 for a Virtual 5-Pack; $85 for a Virtual All-Access Pass; or $15 for individual tickets. In addition, passes can be used to watch with an entire household.

For a complete film and event schedule or to buy passes, go to www.durangofilm.org. Meantime, here’s a few best bets from this year’s festival:

Features: • “Freeland” (80 mins. United States) With the legalization of marijuana, what has happened to all the “black market” pot growers? “Freeland” follows the story of

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Devi (Krisha Fairchild) a Humboldt County, Calif., weed farmer who’s been breeding legendary pot strains for decades on her remote homestead. When cannabis is legalized, her idyllic life is thrown into disarray as she is forced to confront the rapidly changing industry and fights to go legal in an increasingly hostile landscape.

• “Give or Take” (103 mins. United States) Martin is a pragmatist who’s checked the boxes of an acceptable life yet feels disconnected, especially from his father, Kenneth, who Martin could never quite figure out.

Their relationship gets more complicated when Kenneth comes out after the death of his wife, finding love with a younger man, his lawn guy, Ted. The two are living together in Ken’s house on Cape Cod when Ken suddenly dies.

Martin goes home to sell the house while sharing it with Ted. Grieving, the two men circle each other, butt heads, and negotiate how to remember the different man they both loved.

• “Texas Red” (84 mins.

United States) Inspired by a true story, an African-American man named Texas Red is hunted through the Mississippi winter wilderness in 1940 after an unlawful raid on his cabin leads to the death of a young white man.

Barefoot and unarmed, Red (played by Grammy-nominated blues singer Cedric Burnside) and his partner, the Oklahoma Kid, must do everything they can to survive freezing temperatures and stay ahead of the posse of sheriffs, vigilantes and federal law enforcement to make it to salvation.

Documentaries:

• “Eddy’s World” (19 mins. United States) An engaging portrait of Eddy Goldfarb, a 98-year-old toy inventor who brought us such classics as the “chattering teeth.” Watch how Eddy embraces creativity and optimism to not just look incredibly young but young at heart.

• “Piano to Zanskar” (86 mins. United Kingdom) Facing a future in retirement, a 65-year-old piano tuner Desmond O’Keeffe takes on the most challenging delivery of his career: transporting a 100-year-old Broadwood & Sons piano from London to a faraway Buddhist village 14,000 feet above sea level, deep in the Indian Himalayas. The expedition takes him through a world on a brink of change, filled with equal measure serenity and hardship.

• “We are all in This Together” (70 mins. United States) During divisive times in America, a man sets off on a crosscountry bicycle journey, with no food, no money and the hope of gaining a better understanding of human connection. After traveling through 23 states and having conversations with all walks of life, he learns there is much more that brings us together than separates us. 4

Shorts: • “Malakout” (11 mins. Iran) Music was his passion … love was his masterpiece. A piano player tries to bring his wife back to life, but the deal awakens the devil inside him.

• “The Mirror” (23 mins. Australia) When a young girl discovers a mysterious mirror in the basement of her ailing grandmother’s house, she accidentally opens a portal into war torn Nazi-occupied Poland.

• “No Backsies” (10 mins. United States) A couple with kids and a single woman have very different experiences during the lockdown of 2020.

Adventure: • “Chronicles of Gnarnia: The Rex Chadwick Story” (34 mins. United States) A sports mockumentary about the controversial (purely fictitious) life of U.S. Ski Team superstar and bad boy, Rex Chadwick. Follow along on this spoof of the ski bro culture and film genre through a series of parallel interviews with family, friends, scorned lovers and other professional athletes as the story of a sports legend who “could have been” unfolds. From adrenaline-induced highs to devastating lows, the questions remains ... can the human spirit rise from the depths of disaster?

• “With Spirit” (52 mins. United States) Endurance athlete Chelsey Magness has experienced some of the toughest adventure events in the world ... but perhaps none as challenging as becoming a mother. After losing one twin during birth and beginning to raise the other, she returns to where it all began: the Patagonian Expedition Race – one of the most rugged and grueling expedition races on the planet. Pushing her mind, body and spirit to their limits, she races across the Patagonian wilderness for seven days in an attempt to beat the environment, the competition and her grief.

• “Cholitas” (80 mins. South America) With their distinctive bowler hats, long braids and colorful pleated skirts, the “Cholitas” are among the most iconic

symbol of the Central Andes. Travel along as five indigenous Bolivian Cholitas embark on a quest to climb the highest mountain in the Americas, Argentina’s Aconcagua (22,838 feet). But these women are more than brave women, they are a symbol of female liberation and empowerment who see the mountains as a space to feel free, happy and alive.

Their adventure offers inspiring insight into what it is to live traditionally and in harmony with Mother Nature.

Native Cinema • “Almost an Island” (59 mins. United States) Elmer Goodwin was raised in a sod igloo, wearing animal

skins and traveling by dog sled. Now he rides a snow machine and his children are half-white. This multi-generational portrait shows an Inupiaq family preserving its subsistence lifestyle despite the dramatic threats facing Arctic Alaska.

• “Earl Biss: The Spirit Who Walks Among his People” (96 mins. United States) A master painter and descendant of great Crow chiefs, Earl Biss (1947-98) brought inherent, ancient spiritual power to his dynamic oil paintings in the 20th Century. With talent and fortitude, he became part of a renowned core group of artists that birthed the Contemporary Native Art Movement. Recognized as “the greatest colorist of the 20th Century,” follow his joyous, bold, tumultuous journey to success in the fine art world.

• “Nolan: Here nor There” (80 mins. Canada) The coming-of-age tale of a Nolan, a young man growing up on a reservation in the throes of a suicide epidemic.

His mother, fearing for his life, sends Nolan to live with family in Fort Qu’Appelle, in southern Saskatchewan.

While there, Nolan meets a quirky girl who becomes unwitting support as he navigates personal grief and finds his place in history. n

Justthefacts What: 16th annual Durango Independent Film Festival When: March 3-12 online Tickets: $55 for a Virtual 5-Pack; $85 for a Virtual All-Access Pass; or $15 for individual tickets.

For info: www.durangofilm.org

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Can it happen here?

Cold isn’t the biggest threat to Colorado’s grid – other climate disasters might be

by Sam Brasch and Miguel Otárola Colorado Public Radio News

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n a summer evening in 2018, tracer rounds from a shooting range ignited a fire near Basalt. Dry weather let the blaze grow into the Lake Christine Fire, which would burn more than 12,000 acres and destroy about half a dozen homes.

It also burned three of four transmission lines running into Aspen. If the fourth had gone down, the city could have lost electricity for weeks, according to Holy Cross Energy, the local power supplier.

“They had a near miss,” Mark Dyson, a researcher for the Rocky Mountain Institute who studies Colorado’s energy grid, said.

The clean energy think tank would later help the utility harden its grid against future threats from extreme weather.

Those challenges are getting more attention after a recent cold snap caused millions to lose power in Texas. The same frigid blast froze wind farms and restricted the natural gas supply in Colorado, but the state did not experience widespread blackouts.

Dyson warns future disasters might not be so forgiving. Hackers or terrorists could find ways to cripple the electrical system.

Climate change is also set to increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events and wildfires.

• Did Colorado’s electric grid face challenges in the recent cold snap?

Yes. The most notable example occurred in Northern Colorado, where communities rely on the Platte River Power Authority for electricity. One of its wind farms froze on Sun., Feb. 14. A far larger problem occurred later in the day when Xcel Energy curtailed the supply of natural gas to preserve fuel for home heating. That meant the Platte River utility couldn’t flip on turbines to meet peak energy demands.

The stacked problems forced the utility to ask customers to reduce power usage that evening. Steve Roalstad, a Platte River spokesman, said people answered the call and helped avoid any outages.

The Colorado Public Utility Commission has since opened an investigation into how utilities handled the cold snap.

The competition for natural gas caused a spike in prices. Commissioners plan to find out if any of those costs could be passed onto ratepayers.

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The main reason is the difference between states’ natural gas systems.

Officials for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages power distribution, said natural gas providers simply weren’t set up to handle the cold. Frozen pipelines restricted the supply of fuel to power plants, where components also failed.

A few factors helped keep the lights on in Colorado. Dyson said the state’s natural gas infrastructure is built for cold weather. Most Colorado homes also rely on gas furnaces for heat, which means cold temperatures don’t cause a massive spike in electric demand.

By contrast, buildings in Texas aren’t insulated against the cold and use inefficient electrical resistance heat. When temperatures drop, electricity demand spikes just as power plants struggled to produce enough power.

• Are other weather events or natural disasters more likely to cause power outages?

A 2010 state report found winter weather is one of the most common problems for utilities in the state. Infrastructure in rural counties is also damaged by lightning, strong winds and fires, which bring

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down lines and cut power.

Dyson said utilities are set up to handle those local power outages. A report he authored looks at the potential for more expansive power losses, where natural disasters or malicious attacks take out fuel supplies or power plants. Those disasters could create “cascading failures” affecting far more energy users. Extreme weather like cold spells, high winds and wildlife could all cause such a failure in Colorado. The state’s critical energy infrastructure is also at risk from physical attacks or solar storms.

• Colorado climate plans call for more renewables and fewer fossil fuels. Will that make the grid more vulnerable?

Not necessarily. Renewables could actually help make the grid more resilient with the right technologies.

In the aftermath of the Texas power outages, fossil fuel advocates and some Republican politicians blamed frozen wind turbines for the problems. Texas officials have since debunked the claims, showing natural gas failures were the main cause of the blackouts.

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cates insist the state’s grid needs natural gas to remain reliable. Lynn Granger, the executive director for the American Petroleum Institute Colorado, told CPR News natural gas is unique in its ability to “ensure grid reliability,” especially as the state transitions to more and more wind and solar. While those energy sources depend on the weather, gas turbines can power up so long as fuel is available and systems aren’t broken.

Clean energy advocates counter renewables could help solve a deeper problem with traditional energy grids. Dyson said 20th-century power systems rely on centralized plants, which means a single failure can cascade down to millions of homes.

New technologies, like solar panels and energy storage, could allow a community to generate and distribute power at a much more local level.

“With generation sources on-site, communities wouldn’t need to rely on imported power or fuel,” Dyson said.

• What puts more strain on the grid: extreme cold or extreme heat?

Experts say extreme heat is a far bigger challenge. On a hot summer afternoon, people crank up the air conditioning and create huge spikes in electricity demand.

Utilities are also more equipped to handle extreme cold in Colorado than in Texas, said Justin Brant, co-director of the utility program with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project.

Hotter temperatures brought on by climate change, however, could pose a greater risk to the grid down the line. Brant said energy conservation could help protect the electrical system. Having smaller grids all over the state instead of a few larger ones could also help prevent large-scale outages.

• Are wildfires a major threat to the electricity grid?

In short, yes. Brant said wildfires are both a cause and effect of problems with the electric grid.

Though they can burn power lines and cause outages, those lines can also start fires when there are strong winds and dry conditions, such as the Camp Fire in California in 2018. Utilities in the state now turn off the electric grid when there is high fire danger, a strategy that is also being discussed in Colorado as climate change makes large wildfires more common, he said.

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lame it on the news cycle, but last week I found myself simmering a stock of bones from last year’s hunt. A game stock, as it were.

Earlier, I had purchased a “put” option on GameStop for my IRA, a modest investment in the possibility this particular stock might crater. Sure, three hedge funds had lost their shirts, and a combined $3 billion, on precisely the same bet just a few weeks before. But I had structured my investment so the maximum loss would be limited to $44, whilst my gains, if the Game were to stop in short order, would be in the thousands of bones.

You don’t need GameStop in your portfolio, of course, and you don’t need game bones to make a bone stock, when beef, chicken or basically any other bones will do.

When I noticed that my elk bones had achieved a rich umami bronze in the pan, I put them in an Instant Pot – one of those electric pressure cookers that doesn’t rattle and hiss on the stovetop like it’s about to blow up a la Melvin Capital. (Any pressure cooker will do, or a big kettle and a longer time horizon.)

I was ready for dinner, but dinner was not ready for me. Making game stock means playing a long game of cooking, and I had to let it cool to room temperature and skim the fat.

Eventually, I had my stock, a versatile enhancer of flavor and mouthfeel, fortified with minerals and dissolved connective tissues.

These glorious, protein-rich materials feel like fat, despite being mostly amino acids. Add this protein creme to sauces, soups, stir-fry and curry, or this recipe for Short Rib Pho with Squeezed Lime.

As for my bet against GameStop, that short squeeze is old news. What goes up must come down.

Whatever the game – be it stocks, bonds, bears, bulls,

Short Rib Pho with Squeezed Lime Serves 8 For the broth: 2 lbs beef short ribs 2½ star anise pods (20 robust points, total) 1 3-inch piece of cinnamon 3 whole cloves 2-inch section of ginger, peeled, sliced, 1 large yellow onion, thickly sliced 2¼ teaspoons fine sea salt 1 apple, cut into quarters 2 tablespoons fish sauce Added separately to each bowl: 10 oz. dried, narrow rice noodles Cooked meat from the pot ½ small red or yellow onion, thinly sliced and soaked in water for 10 minutes 2 thinly sliced green onions, green parts ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro Black pepper, to taste 2 limes, quartered, or more to taste Optional: bean sprouts, chile slices, mint, Thai basil, hoisin sauce, sriracha sauce Rinse ribs. Brown them under the broiler on the bottom shelf to melt off some fat.

Toast the spices on medium heat in the pressure cooker for a few minutes, until fragrant.

Add ginger and onion; stir until aromatic and slightly charred. Add 4 cups water to stop cooking process. Add the ribs, salt, apple, fish sauce and 5 more cups of water. Lock the lid and pressure cook for 20 minutes.

While the broth cooks, soak the noodles in hot water until pliable and opaque. Drain, rinse and drain again. At serving time, dunk noodles in boiling water to ensure they’re cooked.

Divide among bowls. Add rib meat, along with onion, green onion, cilantro and other herbs if desired. Heat the broth to a simmer and ladle into the bowls. Add condiments to tweak flavor. Finish with a big squeeze of lime.

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hunting, gathering, wheeling and/or dealing in the game of life – the quest for survival guides our decisions and has sculpted our bodies, increased our mental processing capacity and sharpened our instincts through the ages.

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Thursday25 Gary B. Walker plays piano, 11a.m.-1 p.m., JeanPierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave. The Hive’s Heartwarming Soup Sale, featuring Rustic Italian Tomato, 4-6 p.m., Dandelion Café, 725 E. 2nd Ave. $10 min donation/quart. All proceeds go to support local families in need. thehivedgo.org “Return to House of Rain” with Craig Childs, two-part zoom talk, Feb. 25, 4 p.m. Part of Crow Canyon’s Discover Archaeology series. Also takes place Thurs., March 4. Register at www.crowcanyon.org Durango Virtual Green Drinks, 5:15 pm., hosted by the Mountain Studies Institute, Four Core and the Sustainability Alliance of SW Colorado. Join via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us

Friday26 Winter Bike to Work Day, clean commuters can come to the Transit Center to pick up a reusable tote bag with items including socks and a Winter Bike to Work Day hoody (while supplies last) as well as a card with a list of businesses offering discounts to clean commuters that day.

Deadline for “Stuff to Do” submissions is Monday at noon. To submit an item, email: calendar@durangotelegraph.com

Montezuma County Forest Fridays, also March 12 & 26, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, ice skating snow science, free to Montezuma County youth, grades 7-12.

Presented by San Juan Mountain Association, to register: sjma.org/learn/forest-fridays Friday Grit Gatherings, 4-7 p.m., downtown on 10th Street, between Narrow Gauge and Main avenues.

Featuring live music and food from local restaurants.

Tables and chairs will be set up to encourage socially distanced takeout dining and shopping. Also takes place March 5 and 12. Sponsored by BID and Local First.

Jack Ellis & Larry Carver play 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Alpine Bank Full Moon Howler, 6-9 p.m., Durango Nordic Center. Fun for the whole family. Pass required, rentals available.

The annual Powder Hounds Art Auction benefitting La Plata County Humane Society kicks off this Monday. The fund-raiser features the snowboard artwork of 15 artists, which can be bid on or bought outright. There will also be a photo contest to benefit the LPCHS as well. The auction runs through March 14 at www.powderhoundsart.com.

An evening with Victoria Vox & Jack Maher, online concert, 7-10 p.m., part of the Community Concert Hall’s “Artists You Should Know Series.” For tickets, go to: www.durangoconcerts.com.

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Suicide Prevention, 6 p.m., a talk by Jason Armstrong, Thriving Communities Program Manager at San Juan Basin Public Health. Presented the Rotary Club of Durango. For log-in, email: Mtnman16@gmail.com.

Wolf Creek College Day, Lift tickets are $58 for students with a current class schedule and valid college photo ID. Tickets must be bought in advance: wolfcreekski.com.

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Henry Stoy plays piano, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Jean-Pierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave. “Decarbonizing Transportation,” zoominar presented by FLC Lifelong Learning Lecture Series, 7-8:30 p.m., featuring Mark Swanson, retired senior engineer at Intel Corporation, and Deborah Lycan, retired professor of Molecular Biology at Lewis & Clark College. tinyurl.com/2o6ltmsq

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Saturday27 Durango Devo spring registration opens, 7 a.m. at Durangodevo.com Henry Stoy plays piano, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Jean-Pierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave. Telefestivus Telemark Festival, Purgatory Resort.

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Commemorative Ski Race, marking the 50 anniversary of the DHS Ski Team’s state championship in 1971, Feb. 27-28, Purgatory and Durango Nordic Center.

Weston Snowboards Demo Day, Feb. 27-28, Purgatory Resort. Featuring free demos.

artisans, La Plata County Fairgrounds. Masks and social distancing required.

Powder Hounds Online Art Auction begins and runs thru March 14, featuring snowboard art to benefit the La Plata County Humane Society. To bid or “buy now,” go to powderhoundsarts.com.

“Spring’s Promise” art show, March 1-31, watercolors and digital designs by Nadya/Tron. Durango Rec Center Gallery Wall. Sign up at gallery for five prizes to be drawn March 27.

Meditation and Dharma Talk with Erin Treat, 5:307 p.m. Online at www.durangodharmacenter.org/

Tuesday02 7 Rivers Farmers Market, winter farmers market, 12-3 p.m. featuring local farmers, food vendors and

Durango Independent Virtual Film Festival begins thru March 12, featuring 99 films from around the globe, plus coffee talk with filmmakers, Q&As, and quarantinis (virtual happy hour). For schedule, passes and more info., go to: durangofilm.org.

Ongoing 7th annual Unchain my heART a multimedia virtual youth art show, runs thru March 4 at www.lpys.org. All proceeds go directly to the artists.

High Camp Hut Raffle, a fundraiser for the La Plata Open Space Conservancy, thru Feb. 26, 10 a.m. $10/ticket or $40/five. Learn more or buy tickets at www.lposc.org.

Durango Arts Center’s 11th annual 10–Minute Play Contest submission deadline Feb. 28. For guidelines, rules, schedule and link, visit: durangoarts.org/10-minute-play/.

Upcoming Future Garden Favorites: Native Plants, 6:307:30 p.m., March 4, zoom talk featuring Jennifer Bousselot, PH.D, Colorado State University. Sponsored by the Old Fort’s Southwest ag webinar series. Preregistration required at: tinyurl.com/11fmb35s 4

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Too old to tik tok, suck-ulents and Mary mania Interesting fact: Despite a 50 percent drop in sales from 1998-99, JNCO jeans still exist, at about 50 percent of the cost (and 50 percent of the leg width).

Dear Rachel, Can you explain to me what Tik Tok is? At first, it was just some Chinese company our temporary overlord wanted to ban. Now, it shows up as the videos in my Facebook feed that my much younger brother-in-law likes to tag me in.

It feels like a non-thing, except that it’s very much a thing, and maybe now I’m just officially old because I don’t get it. I mean, is this how my parents felt when I asked them to buy me JNCOs in middle school?

– Too Old to Die Young Dear Geezer, Duh, Tik Tok is clearly an app targeted at a younger demographic for constructing videos for later transference to Facebook. Did you buy that explanation? Seriously, don’t rely on me for explaining what the cool kids are doing. I thought I was cool when I got invited to Gmail back in the day. Before that, I was the kid wearing sweatpants instead of baggy jeans. Such a cool chick.

– Hip to be square, Rachel Dear Rachel, I recently got an adorable little single-pot succulent collection for my birthday. I called my friend to thank her, and the last words she said were, “Oh, don’t put it by your other plants in “Coping With Loss,” zoominar presented

by FLC Lifelong Learning Lecture Series, March 4, 7-8:30 p.m., featuring local counselors. tinyurl.com/2o6ltmsq Creede Repertory Theatre presents “To the Moon,” 6 p.m. March 5 and 2 p.m. March 6, a livestreaming docu-drama based on surveys and interviews with survivors of domestic violence. Facilitated talk back to follow both live performances.

Production will also be streamed March 15 April 11. Tickets are free but must be reserved via www.creederep.org.

Wolf Creek Local Appreciation Day, Sat., March 6. $58 for adults; $40 for seniors; and $31 children. Tickets must be bought in advance: wolfcreekski.com.

“The Joys of Bach and Bologne,” Sat., March 6, 7:30 p.m. virtual concert presented by the San Juan Symphony from the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. www.sanjuansymphony.org Durango City Council Candidate Forum, Mon., March 8, 5-6:30 p.m. Hosted

case it has bugs.” What a horrible parting shot.

This is as bad as those one-night stands where you spend the next day googling how long after exposure it takes for chlamydia to show up on an STD test. Do I have any other options besides burning the adorable little succulent collection?

– Bad Pot Dear Suck You Lint, It’s worse than that. It’s more like those one-night stands where you’re googling how long until that stranger will show up in your pregnancy test. Because you’re potentially stuck with these little cactus wannabes for life.

Watering them, repotting them, changing their soiled diapers. Your friend enlisted you in parenthood. You didn’t ask for that. So if you’re going to set fire to the buggers, do it soon, before you enter the second trimester.

– Green thumbs down, Rachel Dear Rachel, My sister is way, way, way into the iconography of the Virgin Mary. Weird, because she’s not Catholic or even Christian, but that’s another story. She’s decked out her house and yard with statues and paintings and figurines of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Which is the same as the Virgin Mary Magdalene, right? All these names confuse me, and I’m not even sure we’re talking about the same person, which is fine except that now all these Marys are judging me. Can you give me the crib notes for keeping my Marias straight?

– Too Much Maryment

Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com Dear Quite Contrary, There is something rather Tolkienian about the Virgin Mary, huh? We should have to list all her titles, just like we do for Aragorn, son of Arathorn, King Elessar, the Elfstone; Isildur’s Heir, Thorongil of the Dunedain, Wingfoot, Longshanks, Strider, Ranger of the North, wielder of Anduril the Sword Reforged, and damn sexy with that greasy hair hanging in his face. Mary should try that look sometime. I’d wear that patch on my JNCOs. – Blessed art thou, Rachel

by Local First: tinyurl.com/y3prv4p8 “Brexit and the European Union,” a virtual talk Tues., March 9, 11:45 a.m. with moderator Paul DeBell. Presented by the 2021 Great Decisions International Affairs Discussion Program. For link, visit www.lwvpaplata.org.

Recognizing Opportunities Around Resilience, or “ROAR,” and substanceabuse prevention, Tues., March 9, 6 p.m. a zoom talk featuring Paige Wagner (San Juan Basin Public Health) and Della Turque (Celebrating Healthy Communities).

Presented the Rotary Club of Durango. For log-in, email: Mtnman16@gmail.com.

38th annual virtual Monte Vista Crane Festival, special web presentation, Fri., March 12, 7 p.m. Tickets $15 and available at mvcranefest.org. Folks can also watch the presentation anytime March 13-17.

“A.J. Croce by Request,” Thurs., March 18, 6:30 p.m., presented by the Community Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 per household: www.durangoconcerts.com.

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to think about one or two types of physical discomforts and symptoms that your body seems most susceptible to. Meditate on the possibility that there are specific moods or feelings associated with those discomforts and symptoms – perhaps either caused by them or the cause of them. The next step is to formulate an intention to monitor any interactions that might transpire between the bodily states and emotional states. Then make a plan for how you will address them both with your own healing power whenever they visit you in the future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet Billy Collins describes “standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.” I have high hopes that your entire life will be like that in the coming weeks: that you’ll feel as if the world is alive with special messages just for you; that every situation you’re in will feel like you belong there; that every intuition welling up from your subconscious mind into your conscious awareness will be specifically what you need at the moment it arrives.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re entering a potentially heroic phase of your astrological cycle. The coming weeks will be a time when I hope you will be motivated to raise your integrity and impeccability to record levels. To inspire you, I’ve grabbed a few affirmations from a moral code reputed to be written by a 14th-century Samurai warrior. Try saying them, and see if they rouse you to make your good character even better. 1. “I have no divine power; I make honesty my divine power.” 2. “I have no miracles; I make right action my miracle.” 3. “I have no enemy; I make carelessness my enemy.” 4. “I have no designs; I make ‘seizing opportunity’ my design.” 5. “I have no magic secrets; I make character my magic secret.” 6. “I have no armor; I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle,” Cancerian author and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield writes. I disagree with him.

There are many other modes of awareness that can be useful as we navigate our labyrinthine path through this crazy world. Regarding each minute as an opportunity to learn something new, for instance: That’s an excellent way to live. Or, for another example, treating each minute as another chance to creatively express our love. But I do acknowledge that Kornfield’s approach is sublime and appealing.

And I think it will be especially apropos for you during the coming weeks.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The coming weeks will be a poignant and healing time for you to remember the people in your life who have died – as well as ancestors whom you never met or didn’t know well. They have clues to offer you, rich feelings to nourish you with, course corrections to suggest. Get in touch with them through your dreams, meditations and reminiscences. Now read this inspiration from poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.” (Translation from the German by Stephen Mitchell.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m fond of 18th-century Virgo painter Quentin de La Tour. Why? 1. He specialized in creating portraits that brought out his subjects’ charm and intelligence. 2. As he grew wealthier, he became a philanthropist who specialized in helping poor women and artists with disabilities. 3. While most painters of his era did self-portraits that were solemn, even ponderous, de La Tour’s self-portraits showed him smiling and good-humored.

4. Later in his life, when being entirely reasonable was no longer a top priority, de La Tour enjoyed conversing with trees. In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that we make him your patron saint for now. I hope you’ll be inspired to tap into your inner Quentin de la Tour.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with your overall health, Libra. In fact, I expect it’s probably quite adequate.

But from an astrological point of view, now is the right time to schedule an appointment for a consultation with your favorite healer, even if just by Zoom. In addition, I urge you to consult a soul doctor for a complete metaphysical check-up. Chances are that your mental health is in fair shape, too. But right now it’s not enough for your body and soul to be merely adequate; they need to receive intense doses of wellwrought love and nurturing. So I urge you to ask for omens and signs and dreams about what precisely you can do to treat yourself with exquisite care.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Love commands a vast army of moods,” author Diane Ackerman writes. “Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate.” This fact of life will be prominently featured in your life during the coming weeks. Now is a fertile time to expand your understanding of how eros and romance work when they’re at their best – and to expand your repertoire of responses to love’s rich challenges. Don’t think of it as a tough test; imagine it as an interesting research project.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet and visual artist William Blake (1757–1827) cultivated a close relationship with lofty thoughts and mystical visions. He lived with his wife Catherine for the last 45 years of his life, but there were times when he was so preoccupied with his amazing creations that he neglected his bond with her. Catherine once said, “I have very little of Mr. Blake’s company.

He is always in Paradise.” I hope that you won’t be like that in the coming weeks.

Practical matters and intimate alliances need more of your attention than usual.

Consider the possibility, at least for now, of spending less time in Paradise and more on Earth.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Poet Robert Graves regarded the ambiguity of poetry as a virtue, not a problem.

In his view, poetry’s inscrutability reflects life’s true nature. As we read its enigmatic ideas and feelings, we may be inspired to understand that experience is too complex to be reduced to simplistic descriptions and overgeneralized beliefs. In fact, it’s quite possible that if we invite poetry to retrain our perceptions, we will develop a more tolerant and inclusive perspective toward everything. I’m telling you this, Capricorn, because whether or not you read a lot of poetry in the coming weeks, it will be wise and healthy for you to celebrate, not just tolerate, how paradoxical and mysterious the world is.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to shed old habits that waste your energy, and create constructive new habits that will serve you well for months and years to come. To inspire and guide your efforts, I offer these thoughts from author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau: “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean author Anais Nin was a maestro of metamorphosis, a virtuoso of variation, an adept at alteration.

She regarded her ceaseless evolution as a privilege and luxury, not an oppressive inconvenience. “I take pleasure in my transformations,” she wrote. “I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.” Her approach is a healthy model for most of you Pisceans – and will be especially worth adopting in the coming weeks. I invite you to be a Change Specialist whose nickname is Flux Mojo.

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