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‘Sí, se pudo!’

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Five hours in the on-ramp conga line that I’ll never get back p4

How a marginalized community mobilized to save its home p8

Despite more than fair share of setbacks, artist perseveres p10

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Eastbound & down Five hours in the dreaded freeway conga line that I’ll never get back

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Mobilizing How a community organized to defeat a corporate buyout of its home

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14 Free Will Astrology

Despite more than fair share of curveballs, local singer perseveres

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Keep on rockin’

by Stephen Sellers

15 Haiku Movie Review The mea culpa Last week’s article on the Durango Record Swap incorrectly said Record Man closed in 2003. Then-owner James Kanagy sold Record Man in 2003, and the new owner closed the shop for good a couple years later.

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Bring down the house

Durango has a new theater company: Durango Theatreworks.

Durango Theatreworks, sponsored by Fort Lewis College, plans to produce shows at various on-campus venues, including the Community Concert Hall and the outdoor amphitheater. The troupe will also host pop-up entertainment throughout the city of Durango.

“Even though the company is sponsored by the college and will provide educational and professional opportunities for its students, all auditions, technical positions and internships will be open to performers and technical theatre artists in and outside of the region,” Fort Lewis College said in a statement.

For its inaugural season, Durango Theatreworks will present three productions: • “Jesus Christ Superstar” (or “The Sound of Music” depending on performance rights availability) June 4 & 5 at the Community Concert Hall.

• Reduced Shakespeare Under the Stars, “Much Ado About Nothing,” June 24-26 & July 1-3 at the Fort Lewis College Amphitheater.

• “Heathers, the Musical” on July 8-10 & 1417, Main Stage Theatre on the FLC campus.

In addition, this Saturday and Sunday, Durango Theatreworks will hold open auditions for anyone interested in performing, ages 8 and up.

Michael McKelvey, an FLC faculty member who is heading the troupe, said for the musicals, people will be asked to sing a certain amount of material. For those interested in the Shakespeare play, people are asked to perform a one- to twominute monologue.

“I’m very excited about it,” McKelvey said.

“The only problem now is getting the word out, but people are responding. So far we’ve had good interest but we’re hoping that increases.”

For more info, email McKelvey at memck elvey@fortlewis.edu

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Caring for Kirk OK – this one tugs at the heartstrings.

Lisa Parker, of Parker’s Animal Rescue, sent out a request for help after a puppy named Kirk was saved from severe abuse at the hands of a human a few weeks ago. Parker said the pup required emergency medical care, X-rays and procedures to repair a badly broken jaw.

The good news is Kirk is beginning to heal, both physically and emotionally, and is ready to be adopted. Parker said the Animal Rescue is asking for donations to help pay for the emergency care, and those interested in possible adoption should reach out. More info at www.parkersani malrescue.com April 14, 2022 n

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LaVidaLocal The ice blockade Time is supposedly the most precious thing we have, but when an early March storm dumped 3 feet of snow on Flagstaff, Ariz., we had more time than we could fully appreciate. Brought to a full stop at the north entrance ramp to I-17 on the outskirts of Sedona, we had no way to return to our Flagstaff hotel room.

We’d traveled from Cortez on completely dry roads, and except for strong winds that blew across the highway, sending a circus of tumbleweeds bouncing like balloons off the front of our car, we enjoyed the trip. The car’s grille looked like it had grown a beard, a motorized Rip Van Winkle ready for a Southwestern nap as we checked into our Flagstaff room. I pulled it all loose and watched it disappear across the parking lot.

Then, with only a light rainsnow mix falling the next day and a full day ahead of us before returning home, we decided on a short trip to Sedona. With the interstate open and the plows active, I maintained a reasonable, slightly slower speed, even as a string of vehicles sped past us.

What we couldn’t believe when we exited the interstate, heading into Sedona, was that only a fog hung over the landscape and not a flake of snow anywhere on the ground. A few soft flakes eventually swirled like static in the air around us while we visited a shop or two. Then around noon the sky literally fell, a stiff wind driving thick, white flakes into our faces as we made our way back to the car, as if the fabled vortexes of Sedona suddenly turned mischievous and visible. Back to the freeway we drove, only to confront orange highway department barrels and flashing lights on an ADOT truck blocking the entrance ramp.

I parked on the shoulder and walked over to the truck. The driver slid his window open.

“What’s up?”

“Dunno.”

“Is the interstate closed?”

“Yup.” “An accident?”

“Probably a couple.”

“How long before it opens again?”

“Dunno.”

Behind me, an obviously impatient driver approached, and after hearing the same explanation, proposed he just might give the interstate a try anyway, only to

be warned that the cops would stop him and hit him with a huge fine. He cursed both the worker and his luck as he walked back to his car. I walked back to ours.

“What’s up?” Pam asked, and I told her all that I learned: “Dunno.”

Our belongings were still in Flagstaff. Computers. Clothes. Toiletries. Snacks. A bottle of wine, everything we might need if we were forced into an unscheduled overnight stay in Sedona. I glanced at my watch. Only half past high noon, so we settled into our saddles on the frontier of interstate Arizona.

We had plenty of entertainment, for we were right beside the entrance ramp, a spot with a perfect view as, one by one, more and more vehicles formed a Möbius strip behind us, parking in a loop until every available space, even under the interstate bridge, was packed bumper to bumper.

A precarious convoy of semi-trucks exiting the freeway approached the bottom of the down-ramp. Too large to join us, they created their own blockade – not as any organized protest movement but as an unhappy, obstructed chain of commerce stuck along a busy north-south free,way corridor. Meanwhile the weather staged its own mandate against travel, imposing a stay-at-home order that in hindsight seemed more reasonable as the snow came down. None of us were happy being caught in the wrong place for a long time, but shouting at the DOT worker stuck with crowdmanagement duty, who must’ve wished he’d pulled a longer straw?

Not cool.

As the afternoon plowed on, every semi forced off the northbound freeway had to maneuver a tight U-turn under the bridge, then up the ramp just to find enough room for the rig along the southbound freeway shoulder. And those drivers parked under the bridge – instead of moving out of the semi’s way – just cringed and looked the other way as each semi that couldn’t quite make a clean U-turn backed up, repositioned, and likely cursed their encounter with the obstacle of an uncompromising human brain.

We spent five hours at the head of the waiting line while the wind kicked up a floating wall of indignant snowflakes. When the interstate eventually reopened, I felt like we’d been chosen to lead a parade as the highway patrolman directed traffic back onto the entrance ramp. But instead of beeping my horn and waving out the window, I just drove white-knuckled and quietly thankful we had all been loosed from our frustration, a meteorological stay-at-home mandate no one could refuse.

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Good old-fashioned grassroots action taking it to Goliath, with Westside Mobile Home Park residents organizing to purchase their land from corporate interests, ensuring preservation of Durango’s dwindling affordable housing supply.

Headway in the stalemate over a location for a homeless camp, with county commissioners voting to buy four properties along Highway 160W for a managed camp. The parcels are within walking distance of Manna and have City water and sewer.

The Biden Administration’s “America the Beautiful Challenge,” announced this week, which will leverage $1 billion in federal and private and philanthropic funds to accelerate land, water and wildlife conservation across the country.

The pollen-pocalypse gripping the Four Corners, with April winds whipping up dust storms and making life miserable for allergy sufferers or really just anyone wanting to recreate outside.

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The EPA proposing to downgrade the Front Range from “serious” to “severe” for ground-level ozone. The upside: stricter emissions regulations. The downer: having wrangle out-of-state sources, who account for as much as twothirds of the problem.

The “Pillow Fighting Championship League” is a real-life, sanctioned, professional pillow-fighting organization for pro-fighters who don’t want to get hurt, and for fighting fans who don’t want to see blood, according to PFC’s CEO, Steve Williams. For real, this sport exists, it’s televised, and soon, children will be able to participate and train in certified gyms thanks to “PFCKidz.” But I wonder… in an adult match, if two very strong guys fought and one of them died, what would the reaper-cushions be?

Another lasting gift from COVID: 9-R reported behavioral incidents were nearly double for 2021-22 than the average of the preceding five-year period, which the district attributes to the pandemic.

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Putin’s Ukraine irony

Putin’s military adventurism into Georgia in 2008 and the “bloodless” occupation and annexation of the Crimea in 2014 may have “seduced” him into believing that a war with Ukraine would be brief, relatively bloodless and that the Russian military would be greeted as “hero liberators.”

Perhaps, also, Putin believed the long, involved web of lies about the Ukraine government and its leaders, which his minions flooded into the international media.

Clearly, Putin had no appreciation for just how poorly his forces would do. He was oblivious to the weaknesses that widespread corruption, inadequate training and shortages of basic military logistical needs would mean in terms of combat preparedness and performance.

In what may be the perfect irony, the Ukraine military was engaged in a separatist war with Russian-backed elements in eastern and southeastern Ukraine since 2014.

Although there is a sense that conflict was a stalemate, it gave the Ukraine military eight years in which it accepted significant training and equipment. In effect, the Ukrainian military became an effective and modernly equipped force while the Russian-backed insurrectionists did not.

In addition, in those eight years, Russia’s actual military forces did not modernize, and because of the annual turnover of a military with significant conscription numbers (Russian men are required to spend one year on active duty), military training was suspect, at best.

Finally, as the Ukrainian military forces out-fought and out-performed the Russian combatants in almost every way, glaring evidence of corruption at all levels of the Russian military (from equipment development, manufacture and maintenance) became obvious.

Ironically, Putin’s proxy war in eastern and southeastern Ukraine from 2014 to the 2022 invasion may have ensured that the Ukraine military was better equipped, better trained, had more battlefield experience and was better suited to meet and defeat the Russian onslaught.

Perhaps even more surprising than the Ukrainian military’s success has been the ways in which Ukraine President Zelenskyy has measured up to the challenges placed on him. Almost overnight, he became a national hero. He rallied the entire country into an iron fist of political, economic and military defense.

President Zelenskyy’s dedication to staying in Kyiv, his refusal to accept any notion of defeat or surrender, his international appeals to legislative bodies and TV audiences around the world, and his trips to the various battlefields have gone a long way in bolstering Ukraine and its people. He has been an important part of the outcome so far.

On the other hand, Putin’s appearances have been far from inspiring. In addition, his raising the unthinkable specter of nuclear war has unsettled the entire world.

The shock-and-awe battle plan simply did not work.

Instead of the Russian version of Blitzkrieg resulting in a quick and overwhelming victory, the shock and awe steeled the Ukrainian people. Nearly everything the Russ-

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ian military tried resulted, mostly, in failures.

Hence, the Russian use of force against innocent and largely unprotected civilians and their cities. The entire world has viewed the consequences of this war against the elderly, the young and the non-military, including the destruction of hospitals, schools and other non-combatant sites and entities.

No matter what the total history and present circumstances are for Putin and his military, there is one overriding problem: There is no easy way out.

– Hal Mansfield, emeritus professor, Fort Lewis College

The immoral enemy After Putin invaded Ukraine, the U.S. timidly succumbed to Putin’s threats to widen the war if the U.S. and NATO became directly involved. We abandoned Ukraine to the Russian war crimes machine by not confronting the aggression. Economic sanctions against Russia and the supply of military equipment to Ukraine will not stop

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the wanton deaths and destruction. They need combat aircraft, tanks and long-range offensive missile systems.

The murdering of Ukrainian civilians by the Russian military is similar to the German atrocities committed during World War II, and the ramifications of the U.S. and NATO not going into Ukraine will reverberate for many years.

Russia could have military forces closer to the borders of NATO countries, and Russia could threaten these countries unless they agree to leave NATO. The world is faced with a tyrant who is intent on expanding into other countries and willing to achieve his aims by warfare. The free world will be locked in a new Cold War and possible military confrontations as Putin tries to recreate the Soviet empire.

NATO should increase its military, and missile systems should be deployed in NATO countries.

Russia has exhibited inhumanity to man, and it is the immoral enemy of mankind.

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‘Sí, se pudo!’

How a marginalized community organized against a corporate buyout

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n uncertain and suspenseful haze hung over Westside Mobile Home Park on Thurs., March 31.

That day, residents were awaiting news on their second offer to purchase the park, located about a mile west of town on Highway 160. Alejandra Chavez has been a park resident for 20 years and is an overseer of the community co-op seeking to buy the land. Surrounded in her home by generations of neighbors and families that Westside has housed for decades, Chavez waited for news.

Sitting beside Chavez, a resident named Maria spoke of finally feeling safe and secure when she arrived at Westside after enduring constant violence and displacement in Mexico. “I can walk late at night, and I know nothing will happen to me. I can walk long distances, and I know I’ll come back home.” Maria continued, “After I moved here, I not only made neighbors and friends but family. And after everything I’ve been through, I feel blessed to be here.”

As a community of predominantly working-class immigrants, many in the park can relate to these sentiments.

While residents recounted memorable moments living in the park, Chavez received a phone notification. “I have to answer this – I think we might have some good news,” she said.

Stefka Fanchi, CEO of Elevated Land Trust, relayed the news over Zoom. “It has been a really tough week,” Fanchi told residents, “but I have an update. And that is that we are buying the Westside Mobile Home Park.”

The suspense turned to celebration as the families erupted in tears of joy and relief. They would no longer have to endure another corporate landlord or the fear of increased rents or displacement.

Though the contract is currently in due diligence, after months of mobilizing, the residents of Westside have taken a major leap in taking collective control of their mobile park.

“You have to fight no matter what,” Chavez said as the joy overwhelmed her.

“Whatever we want to do in the future, if we keep together, then we’re going to go a long way.”

Through Elevation Land Trust, a Denverbased nonprofit working to preserve afford-

Westside Mobile Home Park residents celebrate with laughter and tears after discovering their second offer had been accepted. Meanwhile, other Westside residents raised their fists, chanting, “Sí, se pudo!” (“Yes, it was possible.”)/ Photo by Jamie Wanzek able housing in Colorado, Westside secured public and private funds to help buy the park.

“This is really an investment in the real estate itself so that it becomes a piece of public infrastructure,” Fanchi said. “A onetime investment is something that is still going to be serving the community three generations from now.”

Scroogin’ Days before Christmas, on Dec. 20, 2021, the residents of Westside Mobile Home Park first received news that the park’s owner, the New York-based IQ Mobile Home, intended to sell the park. Thanks to the Mobile Home Park Act, signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis in June 2020, residents of mobile home parks must be given a 90-day advance warning and the chance to make a counter

offer to buy the park. Residents acted quickly, forming a cooperative to buy the land. Westside drew inspiration from Animas View Mobile Home Park, where residents successfully purchased their park for $14 million in 2021. According to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, these Durango parks are two of four parks in the state that have successfully bought their properties under the new act.

At Westside, the owner began negotiations with Harmony Communities, a California-based corporation that owns 33 parks across the county, last fall before the 90-day notice. A deal with Harmony was disconcerting – in 2021, it purchased a mobile home park in Golden and within days raised lot rents by 50% without making any changes to the deteriorating infrastructure,

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according to the community watchdog group Golden United.

Ben Waddell, an associate professor of sociology at Fort Lewis College who has been advocating and reporting on Westside, acquired documents from IQ that revealed the two corporations were set to close April 29. Harmony Communities was also pursuing the Triangle Trailer Park adjacent to Westside on Highway 160, according to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs.

Corporate Investment Craze Harmony Communities and IQ Mobile’s efforts in Durango are part of a more significant trend in the West of real estate investors purchasing mobile home parks. The trend is problematic in that oftentimes it threatens an area’s dwindling affordable housing supply.

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The same week Westside residents awaited news about their offer, The New York Times published an article sounding the alarm about investment companies buying mobile home parks. In its coverage of Golden Hills, The Times noted, “With prices and rents for all kinds of housing soaring in many parts of the country, demand for manufactured housing is climbing.” The article explained that ongoing stratification of the housing crisis has created a surge in demand for mobile homes, rousing cporporate interest.

According to real estate research firm Real Capital Analytics, there was a 23% increase in corporate investor mobile park purchases in 2020. This is on top of a 13% increase for the years 2017-19.

In fact, Mobile Home University, an online “boot camp” that gives investors advice on how to turn a profit on mobile parks, states on its website that “mobile home parks are the hottest sector of real estate right now” due to the decline in the U.S. economy.

“From a corporate perspective, (mobile parks) cash flow like crazy,” said Fanchi. “If all you care about is those rents, and you’re not caring for the homes themselves, you’re basically just the landowner ... the result is crumbling infrastructure.”

In 2013, IQ Mobile Park bought the property from the previous local owners, Walter and Bonny Kerr, for $2.2 million.

Once under new ownership, residents said they felt an immediate shift, with upkeep and park maintenance being neglected.

“Everything went to hell within a month of the new ownership coming in,” Chavez said. While the park owner lived in New York, the local property manager had been

absent, too, she said.

When residents needed help with issues, they were referred to a 1-800 number with no response from anyone in charge. This ongoing neglect left some in uninhabitable homes, with limited access to utilities, like sewage and water.

Chavez recalled the condition of one neighbor’s home in particular. “The first time I saw their home, I came home and cried,” she said. “How could someone let another live like that?”

After to reach IQ Mobile Home Parks for comment were unsuccessful.

The Funds and the Future Residents of Westside explain that corporate management was the driving force behind their desire to organize and form a cooperative to purchase the park.

“If we own the park, we can get rid of the current management who doesn’t care,” said Susana Chavez, Alejandra’s sister.

Despite the price tag of $5.5 million for the 5.6 acres of land, many groups within and outside the county provided support. Elevation’s financial backing, as well as a $1.5 million loan approved by the La Plata County commissioners, resulted in an initial offer of $5.46 million. However, IQ Mobile rejected the offer due to Harmony’s more favorable cash offer. Undeterred and given a deadline extension for March 27, Westside residents continued fundraising in earnest to present a cash offer as well, including everything from bake sales to a “Westside Needs a Miracle” GoFundMe page.

Other community members stepped up as well. On March 25, a benefit was held at The Hive, a youth center downtown Du-

Once fearing displacement, Westside families can now breathe a sigh of relief./ Photo by Jamie Wanzek rango. Featuring foods prepared by Westside residents and performances by local artists, it raised more than $13,000.

“Seeing how the community is supporting Westside, for me it’s hope,” Beatriz Garcia, program manager of the local immigrant rights group Compañeros, said on the night of The Hive fundraiser.

In addition, the Local First Impact Fund contributed a total of $535,000 – $140,000 from local businesses contributing and $395,000 from two private donors.

With this outpouring of financial support, Westside was able to make a second offer of $5.56 million in cash, plus a $25,000 penalty for breaking Harmony’s contract.

“That’s the power of organizing,” Waddell

said. “When you bring a whole community together and reporters are looking into things, that matters. Now that community will be preserved, and that’s so important.”

Waddell mentioned the tragedy of Durango’s Santa Rita neighborhood – a predominantly Hispanic community on the south side of Durango from the early 1900s to the late ’60s. The Santa Rita community’s efforts at organizing were unsuccessful, and the neighborhood was displaced when the state expanded Highway 550.

“A generation from now, people will look at (Westside) ... except it’ll be a different story,” Waddell said. “It’ll be a story about how they saved the community, as opposed to how it was bulldozed.” ■

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Local visual and performing artist Jenn Rawling. With the help of the illustrious Bailey brothers and their infamous Blue House Studio, Jenn survived a literal hole in the heart to record what is easily her most compelling album to date./Courtesy photo

When life gets epic Quarantine, series of curveballs help shape Jenn Rawling’s newest album

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reetings from the coast of Croatia where I am on the hunt for elusive ex-Yugoslavian communists.

Thanks for your continued support as we continue the Telegraph’s insatiable lust for arcane leftist propaganda of yesteryear.

Beforehand, I spent a week exploring the hyper-woke-but-still-tolerant-of-assholes paradise known as Amsterdam. No joke, rent is cheaper in Amsterdam – one of the world’s swankiest cities – than in Durango, one of Austin’s most charming suburbs. Highlights include a healthy dose of record store visits, night after night of great music and dancing (to get

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my mind right for the upcoming Durango Bluegrass Meltdown), frites with mayonnaise, and not getting any guff about being an American for once. It turns out western Europe has their own nationalist terrors to worry about, yet again. Ah, the circle of life!

Speaking of the Bluegrass Meltdown, it’s going down this year, from April 22-24. I insist you get a ticket, a weekend pass or whatever floats your folk boat. This year will be a celebration like none other as top-tier bluegrass musicians like Bruce Molsky and Tony Trischka descend on our humble, increasingly out-of-state-owned town for a weekend of celebration, community and, my personal favorite, high-energy dance music from 100plus years ago. For more info, check out

www.durangobluegrassmeltdown.com Moving on, for this week’s interview, I recently sat down with local artist and musician Jenn Rawling under a tree at the Smiley Building, drinking feverfew and skullcap tea, talking about her new record. With the help of the illustrious Bailey brothers and their infamous Blue House Studio, Jenn survived a literal hole in the heart to record what is easily her most compelling album to date – and during the lockdown, nonetheless. Local musicians Alissa Wolf, of the Stillhouse Junkies, and Scott Roberts, of La La Bones, lent their talents on fiddle and pedal steel guitar, respectively. The core trio are playing live Sat., April 16, to celebrate the imminent release of the record.

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SS: Thank you for this delicious tea, Jenn. So, tell me everything.

How did this amazing new record of yours come to be?

JR: When you start a creative project, when you decide to build anything and bring it into the world, you have this idea of what’s going to happen. There’s this naivete where you step into it, and you’re like, “Holy Moly! [laughs] I didn’t see any of that happening!”

I’ve been working on this record for almost two years. Looking back, thinking about the story and the circumstances around the record, the personal things I’ve gone through, it’s been pretty epic. When you’re working on a body of songs or a body of art … all of these things get

woven into the making part. It’s been like a dream as I look back.

SS: When and how did this process come to fruition?

JR: During the early stages of quarantine, I lost access to my art studio. I was just at home alone, like a lot of people. I wasn’t really able to work at home, because I live in a small house. So, I grabbed my instruments. I never intended to make this record. I got GarageBand on my laptop. I felt really inspired and supported by my creative process. I thought, “Hey, if I don’t do this … I’m going to drink a lot of wine.” [laughs] SS: It sounds like this was born out of necessity then.

JR: Absolutely. This process was a life preserver for me.

The songs started coming in torrents. I love it when that happens, because I don’t really write every day. Then, I made these real funky DIY-style songs – just going for it.

And I was like, “Wow, cool! I’m writing a record!”

I was in a COVID bubble with Jon Bailey at the time. He was doing a lot of drumming with me, and we decided to take all of this to the Blue House. I wanted to collaborate and get bigger than just me and my little acoustic guitar.

So, I asked to work with Jon’s brother, Thomas Bailey, a phenomenal songwriter in his own right. He brings so much creativity to his projects. He helped produce it. He helped me with arrangements and to stay true to my vision. He also brought all of his sound design, sampling skills and multi-instrumental talents to the table. It was such a huge moment for me to work with someone who had that kind of perspective and style.

Shortly after, I had an accident and cut my foot badly.

I thought, “What could possibly happen? This is going to be done in like two months.” And a month later, I’m in the ER, and I have to get several surgeries to correct everything. As a result, I had a minor blood clot, and then a heart attack. On top of all this, the doctors discovered a half-inch hole in my heart. So, there was all of this very intense health stuff happening while I was continuing to

Rawling’s archival print of an illustration for her song “Wolf in You.” The print was offered as a reward for her album’s Kickstarter./Courtesy photo try and return again and again to this project. If I had never cut my foot, I never would have found the hole in my heart, and, not to be overdramatic, but I would have had a severe heart attack later down the road, for sure.

You can’t always see what’s happening when you’re in the middle of life. And, even when you’re in the middle of something like making a record, there’s this part of learning how to trust the unfolding. And, that’s really hard, because it’s a wild ride, and you want to think you’re in control. But, you’re really not. That’s a huge

part of the record. Picking up the pieces and returning again and again.

SS: The record is called “Hand Me a Shovel.”

Are we talking about a grave here?!

JR: No! [laughs] It’s the idea of digging yourself out of something, moving through something. Understanding that you have to move through the obstacles life brings.

SS: What do you hope people experience or take away from listening to your music and seeing you perform?

JR: I love to be inspired and take that and make something. You hear something, and it’s like food. I love where my songs go, and years later hearing a friend say, “When my friend was dying, I held her feet and sang one of your songs to her.”

SS: Is that true?

JR: Yes! That’s so beautiful and crazy to me. I have tried to do music full time and make my living as a musician. It was so incredibly difficult. Right now, I’m not doing music full time. But, I will always want to write songs for the moments in our lives when music helps us to transcend.

SS: Or maybe even settle into the moment. Like when you share a first kiss with someone and there’s this song playing and you’re like, “I’m always going to remember this kiss, this moment, this song.”

JR: Absolutely! Or, when you listen to a particular record on a road trip. The next time you play it, it’s like all you see is the Badlands. To be a soundtrack to people’s experience is more than enough.

SS: Cheers to that. Where can people find you and your music?

JR: On the web at www.jennrawling.net. Also, Handcrafted House is having an anniversary party April 16 at 6 p.m., and I’m playing. My CD will be available at Studio & later this spring. I’ll also have it on all the streaming platforms, too. You can also find me through Studio & on Main Ave.

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Thursday14 SkyWords Student Creative Writing Open Mic, 4 p.m., Fort Lewis College Busby Amphitheater.

Bingo Night, 5 p.m., Fenceline Cider, Mancos.

Rob Webster plays, 5 p.m., Fur Trappers Steakhouse, 701 E. 2nd Ave. Live music, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

“The Diné Reader,” book presentation & signing, 6 p.m., Fort Lewis College Ballroom.

Random Rab, Edamame & Smiley Coyote play, 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 129 E. College Dr.

Durango Elks Lodge Pub Trivia, 6:30 p.m., Durango Elks Lodge, 901 E. 2nd Ave. Non-members welcome.

Open Mic Comedy, 8 p.m., EsoTerra Ciderworks, 934 Main Ave.

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Easter Egg Scramble, 9:30 a.m., Santa Rita Park, 149 South Camino del Rio.

Karaoke, 5:30 p.m., Mancos Brewing Company.

Sound True Duo plays, 6-9 p.m., 11th Street Station.

La La Bones plays, 6 p.m., Durango Hot Springs.

Kids Festivity Follies, youth variety show, shows at 2 p.m. & 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.

Open mic night, weekly 7:30-9:30 p.m., Moe’s Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave. Comedy Open Mic, weekly, 8 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Wednesday20 Open Bluegrass Jam, every Wednesday, 5-8 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Art Reception: Hannah Wilson, 4 p.m., Fenceline Cider, Mancos.

Live music, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Jack Ellis Band plays, 5 p.m., Fur Trappers Steakhouse, 701 E. 2nd Ave.

Light Up the Night Glow Run, check in 7 p.m., run starts 8 p.m. Hosted by Fort Lewis College for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. More info at fortlewis.edu/glow

Live music, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Live music, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Author Kevin T. Jones, 6 p.m., Rochester Secret Garden, 726 E. 2nd Ave.

Arise Roots with special guest Kyle Smith play, 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 129 E. College Dr.

McCurry Organ Trio plays, 6-8 p.m., 11th Street Station.

Powerhouse Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio.

Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 8 p.m., The Roost, 128 E. College Dr.

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20MOONS Dance Theater, 7:30 p.m., Stillwater Music, 1316 Main Ave, Suite C. Info at www.20moons.com

Hello Dollface plays, 6 p.m., Fenceline Cider, Mancos.

Community Yoga, 6-7 p.m., Yoga Durango, 1485 Florida Rd., C-201. Donations accepted.

Arbor Day Celebration, 10 a.m., Santa Rita Park, 149 South Camino del Rio.

Banyan & Cheap Skates play, 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 129 E. College Dr.

Gary Walker plays, 10 a.m.-12 noon, Jean-Pierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave.

“I and You” (a play), 7:30 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.

Youth Poetry Slam, 4 p.m., Fenceline Cider, Mancos.

20MOONS Dance Theater, 7:30 p.m., Stillwater Music, 1316 Main Ave, Suite C. Info at www.20moons.com

Live music, 4:30-6:30 p.m., James Ranch, HWY 550.

Donny Johnson plays, 5 p.m., Fur Trappers Steakhouse, 701 E. 2nd Ave. Jack Ellis & Larry Carver play, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Live music, 5:30 p.m., The Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Freestyle Friday, weekly, 5:30 p.m., The Hive, 1150 Main Ave.

Sunday17 Easter Brunch, 9 a.m., VFW Post 4031, 1550 Main Ave. Proceeds go to local veterans.

“I and You” (a play), 2 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.

Live music, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

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Open Mic Night, 6 p.m., The Hive, 1150 Main Ave.

Ongoing Storytelling & Songwriting night, every second and fourth Thursday, 6-8 p.m., Mountain Monk Coffee, 558 Main Ave. More info at iAMmusic.us The Hive Indoor Skate Park is open, offering open skate and skate lessons. Waivers required. For schedule and online waiver, go to www.thehivedgo.org Shock Wave Drag Night, first and third Friday of every month, 9 p.m., Father’s Daughters Pizza, 640 Main Ave. 18+ Creativity Festivity – A Celebration of Children’s Art, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. Events run thru April 30, more info at durangoarts.org

Upcoming Sacred Smokes, book presentation & signing, April 21, 6 p.m., Fort Lewis College Ballroom.

Smelter Mountain Boys, The Scrugglers, Benny “Burle” Galloway & Kindred Spirit play, April 21, 7 p.m., Animas City Theater, 128 E. College Dr.

Ru Paul’s Drag Race watch party, every Friday, 6-8 p.m., Father’s Daughters Pizza, 640 Main Ave.

Live music, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Paula Poundstone, April 21, 7:30 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.

Mark Smith plays, 6 p.m., Mancos Brewing Company.

Live music, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Duranog Trails Earth Day Celebration, Ska Brewing, April 22, 4-8 p.m., featuring live music and rollout of Trail Crew Brew. 225 Girard St.

Chuck Hank plays, 6-9 p.m., 11th Street Station.

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Kids Festivity Follies, youth variety show, 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.

Great Decisions 2022, topic is “Demographics,” 11:45 a.m., register at lwvlaplata.org

“I and You” (a play), 7:30 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.

Live music, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Heartwood Cohousing tour & potluck, April 22, 5 p.m., 800 Heartwood Lane, Bayfield.

Performing Arts Extravaganza, April 22, 6 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.

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Dear Rachel, I had a date with a fella last weekend, and it went so well I felt like a 15-year-old again. He even smelled great, which doesn’t always happen around here (downside to being attracted to dirtbags). But now, days later, my first-date jacket still has the same tasteful level of cologne it picked up that night. It’s less tasteful when it lingers. I can’t date this guy if I’ll have a drycleaning bill after every dinner. Any tips for getting that cologne smell out of nice clothes?

– Eau de Hombre Dear Man Scent, Yeah! Borrow your friends’ clothes to wear on your dates. No seriously, if you like the smell so much, why not just wrap the jacket in plastic to preserve the odor and pull it out whenever you’re feeling lonely. Basically I’m saying, just date the jacket. You don’t have to dress up or leave the house. You don’t have to deal with his secret wife or surprise children down the line. And when you’re ready to break it off, you just spring for one single dry-clean bill.

– Passing the smell test, Rachel Dear Rachel, I always hear “don’t drink too much coffee or you’ll be dehydrated.” How can coffee dehy-

drate you when it’s literally made of water? If coffee pulls water out of things, wouldn’t it just pull water from the cup it’s in? I could understand it if I was just chewing up dry coffee beans like aspirin tablets, but I’m drinking a cup of water with some brown coloring in it. I just need to know what’s what, because it hasn’t killed me yet, so why stop now?

– Justifying My Habit Dear Hopped Up, Hold on. You chew your aspirin? I can’t even chew a Tic Tac. I pretty much let gum dissolve in my mouth before I sink my teeth into it. The thought of crunching some medicine that is probably bitter and acrid like it’s no big is enough to send me screaming and crying to a sensory deprivation chamber. I think dehydration is the least of the reasons you should consider cutting back on the coffee, amigo.

– All cream no sugar, Rachel Dear Rachel, I hired a contractor to do some cutting-intoceilings-type work at my house. He asked for a 50% deposit before ordering supplies & starting work. Fine. Months later, he got halfway done, stopped because of inclement weather and asked for the remaining 50%. I laughed him out of my house. My friends tell me I just guaranteed a jobcrappily-done, whereas I want him to have incentive to come back. What’s the right strategy here?

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” Aries author Erica Jong said that. Since I’m not an Aries myself, her aspiration is too strong for me to embrace. Sometimes I just don’t have the courage, willpower and boldness to do what I fear. But since you decided to be born as an Aries in this incarnation, I assume you are more like Jong than me. And so it’s your birthright and sacred duty to share her perspective. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to carry out another phase of this lifelong assignment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” writes novelist Kate Jacobs. “It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character.” Now is your special time to shed suffering that fits this description, Taurus.

You are authorized to annul your relationship with it and ramble on toward the future without it. Please keep in mind that you’re under no obligation to feel sorry for the source of the suffering. You owe it nothing. Your energy should be devoted to liberating yourself so you can plan your rebirth with aplomb.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them,” wrote painter Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). “One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them,” he concluded. He was speaking of the art he created, which kept evolving. In his early years, he considered his work to be Neo-Impressionist.

Later he described himself as a “heretic of Cubism,” and during other periods he dabbled with surrealism and abstract art. Ultimately, he created his own artistic category, which he called Orphism. Everything I just said about Delaunay can serve you well in the coming months, Gemini. I think you’ll be wise to accept definitions for yourself, while at the same time not being overly bound by them. That should ultimately lead you, later this year, to craft your own unique personal definition.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a postgraduate student in astronomy, Cancerian-born Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars in 1967. Her supervisor, who initially dismissed her breakthrough, was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work in 1974 – and she wasn’t! Nevertheless, she persisted. Eventually, she became a renowned astronomer who championed the efforts of minority researchers. Among the 25 prestigious awards and honors she has received is a $3 million prize. I urge you to aspire to her level of perseverance in the coming months. It may not entirely pay off until 2023, but it will pay off.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards,” wrote author Oscar Wilde. Let’s make that your motto for the next six weeks. If life could be symbolized by a game of poker, you would have the equivalent of at least a pair of jacks and a pair of queens. You may even have a full house, like three 10s and two kings. Therefore, as Wilde advised, there’s no need for you to scrimp, cheat, tell white lies or pretend. Your best strategy will be to be bold, forthright and honest as you make your moves.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Sagittarian author Pearl Cleage sets the tone for the future I hope you’ll seek in the coming weeks. The Black feminist activist writes, “We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl.” Are you interested in exploring such blithe extravagance, Sagittarius? Do you have any curiosity about how you might surpass your previous records for rowdy pleasure? I hope you will follow Cleage’s lead in your own inimitable style.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “In all the land, there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than 16,” said comedian and actor Amy Sedaris. She was making a sardonic joke about the possibility that none of us may be quite as unique as we imagine ourselves to be. But I’d like to mess with her joke and give it a positive tweak. If what Sedaris says is true, then it’s likely that we all have soul twins somewhere in the world. It means that there are numerous people who share many of our perspectives and proclivities; that we might find cohorts who see us for who we really are.

I bring these thoughts to your attention, Virgo, because I suspect the coming months will be an excellent time for meeting and playing with such people.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I can never rest from tenderness,” wrote author Virginia Woolf. I won’t ask you to be as intense as her, Capricorn. I won’t urge you to be constantly driven to feel and express your tenderness.

But I hope you will be focused on doing so in the coming weeks. Why? Because the astrological omens suggest it will be “in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.” (That’s a quote by aphorist Jenny Holzer.) For inspiration, consider trying this experiment proposed by Yoko Ono: “Try to say nothing negative about anybody: a) for three days; b) for 45 days; c) for three months.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A team of biologists unearthed a fascinating discovery in Costa Rica. When the group planted a single tree in pastureland that had no trees, biodiversity increased dramatically. For example, in one area, there were no bird species before the tree and 80 species after the tree. I suspect you can create a similar change in the coming weeks. A small addition, even just one new element, could generate significant benefits. One of those perks might be an increase in the diversity you engage with.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Smallpox has been eliminated thanks to vaccination, but it was once among the most feared diseases. Over the course of many centuries, it maimed or killed hundreds of millions of people. For 35% of those who contracted it, it was fatal. As for the survivors, their skin had permanent scars from the blisters that erupted. As disfiguring as those wounds were, they were evidence that a person was immune from future infections. That’s why employers were more likely to hire them as workers. Their pockmarks gave them an advantage. I believe this is a useful metaphor for you. In the coming weeks, you will have an advantage because of one of your apparent liabilities or imperfections or “scars.” Don’t be shy about using your unusual asset.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I gamble everything to be what I am,” wrote Puerto Rican feminist and activist poet Julia de Burgos, born under the sign of Aquarius. Her gambles weren’t always successful. At one point, she was fired from her job as a writer for a radio show because of her progressive political beliefs. On the other hand, many of her gambles worked well. She earned awards and recognition for her five books of poetry and garnered high praise from superstar poet Pablo Neruda. I offer her as your role model, Aquarius. The rest of 2022 will be a fertile time to gamble everything to be what you are. Here’s a further suggestion: Gamble everything to become what you don’t yet know you must become.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman was a trailblazer. He created the genre known as free jazz, which messed with conventional jazz ideas about tempos, melodies and harmonies. In the course of his career, he won a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and MacArthur Fellowship “genius” grant. He was a technical virtuoso, but there was more to his success, too. Among his top priorities were emotional intensity and playful abandon and pure joy. That’s why, on some of his recordings, he didn’t hire famous jazz drummers, but instead had his son, who was still a child, play the drum parts. I suggest you apply an approach like Coleman’s to your own upcoming efforts.

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