The Durango Telegraph, May 13, 2021

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In the hot seat

Pulling through

Hitting rewind

‘New normal’ hotter, drier and a taste of what’s to come p8

Studio & stages first art show in nearly a year p9

Junkies’ Cody Tinnin releases solo album on ... cassette p11

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T.C.B. The painful irony of having nowhere to go steps from the sewer plant

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Too hot to handle?

NOAA predicts hotter, drier future for Colorado

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Ear to the ground: “The only thing I really learned over the last four years was how to go to the hardware store to buy stuff to make explosives.”

– Recent FLC grad on some of the life skills learned during his stint in Durango

Time to roll

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While area trails rested under a notquite-deep-enough blanket of snow over the winter, new trails were being born for local public lands. The Mancos Trails Group announced last week that there soon will be two additions to the Montezuma County trail landscape: the Chicken Creek Trails and the Aqueduct Trail System.

While details on the Chicken Creek trails will be forthcoming, trail advocates in the M.C. are ready to roll on building the Aqueduct, with the first of what will likely be many build days slated for this Saturday.

Located 2 miles northwest of Mancos, the Aqueduct’s planned 11.7 mile system of singletrack will be open to nonmotorized users plus

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Comeback kids Studio & stages ‘Through,’ its first show in almost a year

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13 Ask Rachel 14 Free Will Astrology A tiny speck of a rider in the huge vistas of the Durango-Farmington Cycling Tour.

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Turning back time

On the cover: A wall of Hovenweep’s Cutthroat Castle, built over a gap in the bedrock, offers a glimpse through time on various levels./ Photo by Stephen Eginoire

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ebikes. The vision is that eventually, when the Paths to Mesa Verde project connecting Mancos to Mesa Verde National Park is done, riders will be able to access the Aqueduct using just trails and County Road 39.

This Sat., May 15, 9 a.m., the Mancos Trails Group will hold an orientation followed by a work day at the Aqueduct. Trail work will be dependent on trail alignment approval in advance of the work day and having sufficient crew leaders. If there is no trailwork that day, volunteers will instead hike part of the trail system.

Folks interested in coming out and swinging a Pulaski for a few hours can RSVP to: mancostrailsgroup@gmail.com. Space is limited.

And speaking of riding, this fall will usher in a new regional biking event: the Durango-Farmington Cycling Tour. Taking place Oct. 23, the ride is being organized by longtime cyclist and former “Chip Peddler,” Neil Hannum.

The 50-plus ride will start at Santa Rita Park in Durango and end at San Juan College, in Farmington. The “half-road, half-dirt” route follows mostly scenic backroads and BLM singletrack including La Posta Road, HWY 550 and San Juan CR 2300 before descending into Farmington via what Hannum calls the “Big Apple” in a nod to the iconic Road Apple trails.

In addition to local scenery, the route also takes in local history. Not only does it follow parts of the Spanish Trail, it also takes in the Aztec arches and the once-flourishing Spanish settlement of La Posta, Colo.

For more info. on the tour, email Hannum at: neilhannum@gmail.com

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LaVidaLocal Oh, what a relief it isn’t!

With two doctor appointments scheduled five hours apart in Durango – 50 miles from my home –I decided to use Santa Rita Park as my waiting room. It’s located right beside the melodious Animas River, equidistant from both medical offices. As I pulled into the parking lot, a coveted spot in the shade opened up.

I eased into it, slick as slipping into a pair of silk pajamas, lowered the windows, and reclined into a comfortable napping position.

A disagreeable breeze forced me to sit up. I wondered if I’d parked on a decaying mound of picnic garbage until I remembered this park is also home to the Santa Rita Water Reclamation Facility, so I settled back down. The SRWRF’s name, cleaned up from “Wastewater Treatment,” sounds more sparkly. I may get in trouble for mentioning this like I did when I referred to my own county landfill as a “dump,” but the SRWRF processes sewage, which is also an indispensable feature in a city where 19,000 residents plus droves of tourists who travel through leave their “calling cards” every day, which is also another way of not calling a turd a turd.

Obviously, I couldn’t sleep, because I also had to find a toilet.

My brain summoned up a memory of a bathroom at the old visitor center building, thinking the facility might have reopened after being “temporarily” closed and relocated many years ago during the sewage plant’s first phase of reconstruction. Unfortunately, the door remained locked, the windows blocked. A sign taped to the glass declared “Public restrooms are now available on the exterior of the Santa Rita Water Reclamation Facility Administration building adjacent to White Water Park.”

I walked in that direction and found an aesthetically rusted rugged steel outdoor bathroom clearly identifying its men’s and women’s entrances. I went inside, both sides actually, because the entire structure was deserted, and not just by park enthusiasts. Inside I found no toilets, no sinks, no plumbing, no anything except blank walls and empty stalls. I stepped back into the sunshine.

Nearer the sewage plant a sign declared “RV Dump Closed; In Case of Emergency Call... .” Well, I wasn’t experiencing an emergency, not yet, and I didn’t drive an RV, but I appreciated the note. Nevertheless, I had a mission, so I continued snooping around, hoping to discover one of those rentable Tardis-

shaped toilets sheltered perhaps beneath a shady stand of trees. Even in these COVID days, a park that remains open to the public ought to provide some kind of privy.

I walked a wide arc along the perimeter, but couldn’t find one. I noticed the playground had none, likely because most of the children wore diapers. I noticed the Pick-up-after-your-dog stations were fully supplied with plastic bags, but hardly appropriate for two-legged beasts like me. I walked over to ask one of the flower garden spring cleaning volunteers if she knew where the toilet was located. She shrugged, said she didn’t think the park had one anymore.

Oh, the knee-deep irony of it, that on the multiple acres of a $64 million sewage treatment facility with attached recreational grounds where at least 40 other cars had parked with me, a public restroom did not exist.

Then I noticed a truck pull into the park with a green plastic PortaPotti strapped to its flatbed. It sped off toward the sewage plant and I followed it.

Along the way I paused beside a sculpture of two laborers, one raising a hammer to pound a shank of steel held by his partner into the ground. The plaque beneath it commemorated the historic Durango smelter, but I thought, hmmm ... smelter. A word I should have expected. At that moment the sculpture made me imagine two desperate men digging a latrine.

Eventually I found the toilet delivery truck parked behind the sewage plant’s gate and realized the driver didn’t plan to set up a clean one in the park, but instead to carry out a commercial dump. A larger tanker truck parked nearby had the same plan. Oh, what a relief for them.

I considered giving up my shady parking spot and driving to a convenience store where the insurmountable task of keeping a toilet open during business hours was still possible. The virus is dangerous and all precautions must be considered, but encouraging park people to wander into the bushes along the river is hardly a solution.

Back at the car, I glanced at my watch. Nearly time for my next doctor appointment. Despite arriving early, at least I’d have the opportunity after checking in to ask that important question: Where’s the bathroom? My mask might muffle my question for the receptionist, but at least my body language ought to explain my state of mind.

– David Feela

Sign of the Downfall:

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Misteak Manna receiving $260,600 in state grants to provide basic supplies to assist those who are housing insecure in the community

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Continued drought conditions coupled with high winds leading to a rash of wildfires in the area in recent days

Sally Buzbee being named the executive editor of the Washington Post, the first female editor in the paper’s 143-year history

NOAA latest 10-year climate “normals” showing significantly drier and warmer conditions with the annual temperature in Durango increasing by 0.5 degree and the annual precipitation decreasing by 0.38 inches.

The Biden Administration announcing the restoration of protections for gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care

The cyber attack on a gas pipeline leading to higher prices at the pump and “gas hoarding” in the Southeast

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The latest social media trend proving the end is nigh is something called “high meat.” According to an article in Newsweek last week, people are allowing raw meat to rot for months and then eating it (after posting it on Twitter, of course), which purportedly causes a “euphoric high feeling” that one can only assume is the beginning of death. The article goes on to say that moldy meat may be intoxicating due to a variety of bacteria, but that severe illness is the more likely outcome. It’s just a good thing there aren’t any teen-agers on social media, because that would be dangerous.

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ToonedUp/ by Kayla Shaggy

Chief has no place in 2021 I had a riveting conversation with Jackson Clark, coowner of Toh-Atin Gallery, the other day about where he stands on taking down the “Chief,” which so many Native people find offensive and damaging.

After telling me all about how much good he and his family continue to do for the Native community, he said, “If someone can give me a good enough reason why the statue is racist, then I’m open to hearing that, but no one has been able to do that.”

The thing is, it’s 1,000 percent not the place of a nonNative person to decide what a Native person considers to be racist or offensive. If a Native person says that the sign is racist and offensive – and many have – then it is. Period.

There are many contemporary Native artists and sculptors who would likely be delighted to contribute a less problematic and more representative work of art for the prominent corner. It’s also entirely possible to create a community fundraising initiative to compensate the artist.

There are possibilities, the owners just won’t hear them.

The predominantly white colony of Durango was built upon stolen Native land. That’s not just a trendy slogan ... it’s real life and an ugly history. The Native residents of the area haven’t gone anywhere. They never left. Fort Lewis College (once an Indian boarding school) now enrolls an average of 1,100 Native students from 160+ tribal nations. What message does the “Chief” send to those young people making their way in this college town in the year 2021?

The owners of Toh-Atin Gallery have options and can make this right. Yet they keep the statue in place. In the same breath in my conversation with Clark, he said, “This statue has been here in Durango since the 1950s.

It’s time to let go of the past and move forward.”

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Many Native people believe that the caricature is degrading and offensive, that it reinforces stereotypes about indigenous people and that it serves as a symbol of systemic racism. So yes, you are absolutely correct ... it’s time let go of the past, move forward and take down that sign. #notyourmascotdurango – Jaime Nicole Becktel, Mancos

Outdated sign is clearly offensive I’m a concerned citizen writing about “The Chief” statue that is still standing in our town. It has been clearly regarded as offensive to many of our Native community members; they have shouted this over and over again. Why are we ignoring the requests of our community members? This is a democratic society where we all work together for the betterment of each other as a whole. Please listen! Please take the statue down!

Times have changed ... let’s adapt Durango!

– JJ Simms, Durango

committees. In LPEA board meetings, I count on Tim to ask the hard questions and give thoughtful, communityfocused opinions. Even before Tim was elected, he kept abreast of issues the LPEA board was tackling. That is what we all hope for when choosing a director.

Before stepping up to run for this position, Tim was involved in our community as a business owner. He is largely responsible for the formation of Local First, which advocates for local businesses in the area. He had a hand in the birth of the Four Corners Office for Resource Efficiency, which benefits many in the region. You can thank Tim that local restaurants compost their food waste rather than trash it. He started doing it at the Coffee Co. and others followed. You’ll often see him at City Council meetings making comments.

All this goes to show that when Tim identifies a need in our community, he takes the next step to address it. Tim Wheeler’s the one you want representing you at LPEA. – Lissa Ray, Durango

Ted has eye for tech, bottom line

Ted will connect, cooperate

Ted Compton will get my vote for La Plata Electric Coop Board of Directors District 3 (Durango) when my ballot arrives in mid-May. Ted has the technical education – dual degrees in engineering; leadership experience – a professional energy executive; history – four generations in La Plata County; and future-looking passion for the work of energy delivery.

Ted is focused on ending our reliance on Tri-State’s polluting sources, while balancing reliability, affordability and bringing clean energy generation closer to home.

This would result in high-paying local jobs and investments in broadband, electric vehicles and battery storage.

Ted is unaffiliated acting with non-partisan issue-based decision making. His varied service includes board membership of Fast Track Broadband and La Plata Open Space Conservancy. As a team member with Colorado Advanced Industries Grant Program, he has helped bring $2 million in new technology investment to Durango.

Ted will carry the substantial progress of LPEA forward with one eye on the bottom-line and one eye on the technology. What more could our citizenry want in an LPEA Board Director? Join me in voting for Ted Compton, LPEA Board of Directors.

– Kathleen Adams, Durango

Elect Ted Compton for LPEA Director. Our electric cooperative delivers essential energy to our homes, communities and workplaces. Our systems that provide food, water, health, information, communication, transportation, security and waste treatment are connected to LPEA. Ted Compton’s engineering education and career with local manufacturers providing electronic and energy distribution infrastructure throughout the world gives him a technologist’s deep understanding of creating and maintaining reliable networks.

We need LPEA directors who have a history of connection and cooperation in our diverse local community. We see Ted daily with the leading agriculturists, cyclists, philanthropists, naturalists and volunteers in La Plata County.

The gifts of electrification have brought degradation and hazards to our local and global environment. We need directors who have a balanced, long view of managing electric power generation and distribution to protect our natural heritage. Working with Ted on the board of La Plata Open Space Conservancy for nine years has shown us his dedication to environmental protection.

If you live in LPEA’s District 3, vote for Ted Compton.

– Karen and Jerry Zink, Durango

The cost of plastic bags

Wheeler goes the extra step Tim Wheeler is the incumbent running for re-election to the LPEA board of directors in District 4. I am glad Tim has opted for another term, as he has done an excellent job representing his constituents. Tim helped draft LPEA’s Strategic Goals, which did not exist before his term. He’s been deeply involved as a director, serving as the Board Treasurer, the FastTrack board representative, and on the LPEA Broadband, Power Supply and Finance and Audit

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1) Plastic bags pollute our city. Lightweight and easily airborne, they tumble into the Animas, get caught in trees and litter our trails.

2) Plastic degrades into tiny particles that contaminate our food chain, water and soil, exposing humans to toxins absorbed by the plastic and a host of other compounds that are dangerous to our health.

3) Plastic bags are costly. Our city has to pay to clean up litter from parks, trees, storm drains, etc. and plastic

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bags caught in drainage systems can cause flash flooding.

We pay for these costs in the form of increased taxes and emergency cleanup funds.

4) Plastic bag manufacturing requires nonrenewable fossil fuels – oil or a natural gas byproduct – and emits greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, which is not sustainable.

Plastic bags are what economists call an externality: an expense that’s paid for by society rather than the person who’s responsible for it. Luckily, there are ways we can ensure that at least some of these external costs are paid by whoever actually uses the bags. The idea isn’t to punish people for using plastic bags; it’s to create an incentive for every person to pay their fair share.

As the state deliberates HB21-1162, I call on our new and existing City Council members to address this lowhanging fruit. We the citizens voted for environmental expertise, entrepreneurial savvy and the ability to get things done. Now let’s get this done.

– Alex Whittow, Durango

The hand of God & golden toilets In the 2000 election, the Brooks Brother’s rioters bullied their way in Florida attempting to halt vote counting. We were brought to George W. Bush with his hand of God. He spent his first day in office signing the universal gag order that controlled more women’s bodies worldwide than Bill Clinton could imagine. That was followed by attempting to spark Armageddon with shock and awe, and calling torture “enhanced interrogation.”

Republicans have now brought us the Jan. 6th riot, the same action women’s clinics have faced daily for decades.

The fundamentalists’ hand of God begins with humiliation, proceeds to intimidation and ends in violence. In state after state, Republicans use their hand of God to deny women self-governing free citizenship, and control their fertility and children. Republicans are also denying voting rights to those who may not vote for them.

The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion to all.

The conservative Supreme Court gave corporations “personhood” in 2010. In 2014, it ruled a wealthy male white corporate executive held the power to coerce his religious hand of God upon the bodies and actions of his female employees. Poor women are funneled into bearing unplanned children that the Republicans program for failure. They deny children access to decent nutrition, education, housing and opportunity. Our lucrative prison industry is filled with programmed failure. Corporations thrive on cheap labor. The American Legislative Exchange Council and the Federalist Society council laws that raise humans for incarceration, at an obscene profit. The past four years have seen the golden toilet mafia and its vaudevillian burlesque golden mafioso selling control of women’s bodies. This is mafia activity. Let us aim our arrow of time toward true freedom of religion for all, and embrace equality and mutual benefit.

– Ann T. Johnson, Durango

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In the hot seat Colorado’s ‘new normal’ is warmer and drier – and a preview of the future

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emperatures may be rising across most of the United States, but it’s the Southwest that has become hotter and drier in the last 30 years, according to data published Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The new climate “normals” compile temperatures and precipitation levels collected from about 8,700 weather stations across the country from 1991-2020. The 30-year averages are updated every 10 years – the last period was 1981-2010 – and are used by meteorologists to gauge how current weather conditions compare to the overall climate.

“It’s literally the new normal,” Greg Hanson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boulder, said.

The latest report shows that the last 30 years were not only warmer on average than the previous period from 1981-2010, but warmer than the 100-year average of the entire 20th century, Hanson said.

“That average also includes early in the 20th century, before we really started to feel the effects of climate change,” he said. “So this last 30 years is really markedly warmer than the previous century.”

The entire country warmed over this latest 30-year period, except for parts of the northern plains in the Dakotas and Montana, according to the data. The Southwest had the biggest increase in temperatures, especially New Mexico and west Texas.

Precipitation patterns tend to emerge over longer periods of time, State Climatologist Russ Schumacher said. Still, a split is clearly visible along the Continental Divide: Precipitation has dropped in the West while it has increased in the East.

“The conditions over the last 20 years or so have been generally more extreme and drier and warmer (west of the divide) than what we’ve seen east of the divide,” Schumacher said.

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Smoke billows from last year’s Cameron Peak fire, near Fort Collins. Fires will become more common under the state’s hotter and drier scenario being forecast by NOAA./ Photo by Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Mountains, in a strange situation. While precipitation has dropped significantly in the west and southwest parts of the state, it has remained relatively stable and even risen in the east.

Average temperatures across the state rose only slightly except in pockets of southern Colorado, where they jumped by more than a degree, according to the data.

These climate normals are also used by cities for planning purposes and farmers to determine how much rain could fall on their crops, Hanson said. Utilities can also use the normals to anticipate electric use, though an Xcel Energy spokesperson said the company uses its own data,

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which it updates annually.

The climate is clearly changing, Hanson said. Colorado had its three largest wildfires in state history last year, which also tied records for being the second driest on record.

The latest “normals” provides an important snapshot, but scientists want to stress the warming climate is anything but normal.

“That’s kind of what we’re used to now,” Schumacher said. “We run the risk of interpreting this new normal that’s warmer as being normal in our minds.”

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Lorna Meaden, left, and Tim Kapustka, Studio & members, pose inside the gallery this week with a poster for their newest show, “Through.”

The invitational show will feature the works of 28 artists, many Studio & alumni./Photo by Missy Votel

Pulling through Studio & stages first show since pandemic-forced shut down

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here’s no doubt, with the pandemic, presidential election and racial unrest, we’ve all been through a lot in the last year.

Since its last show nearly a year ago, Main Avenue’s venerable contemporary art gallery Studio & was forced to close down, only re-opening in March. And in that time, co-owner Tim Kapustka, whose COVID hair has even his closest friends doing double takes, yearned for the day when the gallery could once again hold its lively, well-attended and sometimes boisterous openings.

Well, that time has come.

This Fri., May 14, Studio & opens its first show in 11 months, “Through,” featuring the work of 28 artists from near and far, many Studio & show regulars.

“I’m really looking forward to having people back, and this show is going to be a celebration of that,” said Kapustka.

In keeping with the times, the show will be a socially distanced affair, with only eight masked attendees (or however many San Juan Basin Health Department deems is allowable on opening day) in the studio at once. Everyone else can (carefully) congregate outside in the gallery’s parking lot, where there will be live music, refreshments and, of course, lots of catching up to do.

JusttheFacts What: “Through,” a group invitational show When: Opening reception Fri., May 14, 4-9 p.m.; show runs through Sat., May 22 Where: Studio & Gallery, 1027 Main Ave. Featuring work from: Dan Groth, Scott Dye, Miki Harder, Crystal Hartman, David Holub, Rosie Carter, David Butler, Jenn Rawling, Ilze Aviks, Tony Holmquist, Shay Lopez, Clint Reid, Lorna Meaden, Tim Kapustka, Noah Stotz, Jeff Madeen, Minna Jain, Shawn Lotze, Roger Seliner, Maureen May, Ron Fundingsland, Elizabeth Kinahan, Leesa Zarinelli Gawlik, Jon Bailey, Carol Mehesy, Cody Tinnin, Luke Davis, and a film by Jon Bailey featuring 20 Moons Dance Co.

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“I can already feel what the camaraderie is going to feel like,” said Kapustka. “So many people have been starved for social interaction.”

As for the show’s theme, Kapustka is the first to admit it was a bit of a no-brainer.

“I don’t want to say ‘low-hanging fruit’ to discredit it, but we’ve all kind of been in a semi-shared experience, separately,” he said Monday in what also happened to be one of this writer’s first in-person interviews in a year. “It was a huge blanket event. This is really something that touches us all. I like the commonality of that.”

As with Studio &’s past “challenge” invitationals, artists are given a theme word and asked for their interpretation.

Past shows’ topics include “Year,” “Bound” and “24 Durango.” Of course, there is no right or wrong answer – or no rock-solid definition of the word “through” (or threw, if you want to get really crafty) – because that’s where the real artistic magic happens, according to Kapustka.

“It’s a simple word, but there are three or four rich interpretations, which is always the aim with these things,” he said. “It’s like, ‘Here’s your parameters. How are you going to bounce around in here?’ It’s a challenge in its simplicity.”

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“This time, what I wanted to do was reach out to Studio & alumni. I think of those people in particular – and all the artists in the show – as the & family,” he said.

While some of the artists in the show live in Durango, many have moved away, broadening the show’s perspective even farther. For example, Jain moved back to her home of Minneapolis about a year ago, just a few blocks from where George Floyd was killed. Her triptych of stark cyanotype prints on cotton fabric with embroidery, titled “It’s Loud Here,” were taken during the armed military occupation of the city in May 2020.

“It’s crazy; this was our country last year,” said Kapustka, looking over one of Jain’s three pieces, of a Black Hawk helicopter swooping down over the city. “It looks like Kosovo.”

Many of the pieces reflect the darkness of the past year – like Crystal Hartman’s “Hive,” which at first glance appears to be a whimsical sketch but upon closer inspection is a pile

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of skulls and bones. However, others are more nuanced or upbeat, like Tony Holmquist’s abstract intaglio (engraving), “Port Clyde Cyclegraph,” or David Butler’s space-age sculpture, “Retrolux Rocket.”

But one thing all the works have in common: they chronicle the last 365 days, which is the beauty of the show, Kapustka said. “We experienced it differently, but we all have David a larger frame of reference Butler’s to talk about it,” he said.

“Retrolux As for Studio &’s own Rocket” experience making it “through” the pandemic, Kapustka was overwhelmed with appreciation for support from the community over the last year.

“People really stepped up to support us in COVID,” he said. “People we really didn’t know came out of the woodwork to ask ‘how do we help?’”

To pivot during the new normal, the gallery put its offerings online and also started selling gift certificates, which proved to be quite popular and helped keep the studio afloat.

“This community is special,” said Kapustka. “The validation in a really tough time – it’s so humbling and will propel us through.”

For more, visit Studio & on Facebook or go to www.anddurango.com. 

Kapustka with Minna Jain’s series “It’s Loud here,” cyanotype prints taken during the military occupation of Minneapolis last May./Photo by Missy Votel

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Hitting rewind Stillhouse Junkies’ Cody Tinnin releases solo record on … cassette

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The result is the 10-song cassette tape, “Perennial,” released a couple of months back. You read that right – cassette. Tinnin opted not to put this out on CD or vinyl, explaining that those mediums were outdated. “Nobody my age is buying CDs anymore,” he told me. I didn’t bother telling him that the cassette was even more of a dead medium – I just didn’t have the heart. That said, each tape has a download card inside it allowing the user to access the album in a format that’s a wee bit more contemporary.

Cassettes aren’t a setback for me. My 2006 Toyota Tundra has an AM/FM stereo with a six-CD changer and cassette deck that was factory issue back in the day, and I frequently keep a small assortment of tapes in the center console. I think the current batch includes a Steve Earle & the Dukes “Exit O” cassette that Beth Lamberson gave me at a garage sale; the “Eddie & the Cruisers” soundtrack I bought back in the mid ’80s; a handful of fifth-generation Grateful Dead and Jerry Band shows; and the odd mixtape. Thousands more are stored in my garage for the home stereo, which still has a tape-to-tape dual rack for dubbing cassettes for friends … in other words, mostly collecting dust since 1998.

The Tundra’s CD player gets a lot more use than the cassette. Since my real job is in radio, and I still get a handful of new releases each week from A&R folks, I use the 40-minute drive to and from the station as a chance to preview albums.

Maybe my pal was onto something with this cassette-only release. For luddites and low-fi junkies like me, the cassette tape has a set it-and-forget it quality. I popped the little yellow tape into my truck’s player a few weeks ago after he gave me a copy at Tico Time Bluegrass. I haven’t ejected the tape or switched the mode to CD ever since.

Fans of old-time music will be happy to hear that the cassette isn’t the only thing retro. Jon Atkinson traveled to Durango

from Bristol, Va., a place that knows a thing or two about old-time music, what being just 20 miles from the Carter Family Fold, where the famous musical family once lived. Atkinson is the in-house engineer at BigTone Studio, which hails itself as America’s most authentic tape-recording venue. There’s nothing digital in Atkinson’s work – he uses vintage microphones, Ampex tape machines, and tube recording consoles, limiters, equalizers and pre-amps. “There wasn’t even a computer in the room,” Tinnin said of the recording session.

The sessions were done live – no overdubs. The resulting 10 songs – which include seven originals, a cover of Don Stover’s “Things in Life” (often associated with Tim O’Brien, who has recorded versions with Hot Rize, Jerry Douglas and solo), and traditional numbers “Moonshiner” and “Bury Me Beneath the Willow.” “‘Perennial’ is a snapshot into my personal study of clawhammer banjo, oldtime and my lifelong relationship with music,” Tinnin explains in the liner notes.

“Years before I joined StillHouse Junkies and became a full-time musician, my grandmother, Mary Bartee, told me that she believed music was my true calling. It

has taken some time and searching to find my path as a musician but in the past few years, I believe I have finally found what it is I’m supposed to do in this life. Turns out Grandma was right.”

The album isn’t to be confused with Tinnin’s work in StillHouse Junkies, who are expected to resume touring outside La Plata County this summer. It’s something totally different. Don’t expect to hear “Perennial” songs or Tinnin plucking a banjo at a Junkies concert any time soon.

That trio – which includes guitarist/mandolin player Fred Kozak and violinist Alisa Wolf – has a unique sound rooted in equal parts bluegrass, country, folk and rock.

StillHouse is also primarily a vehicle for the words and music of Kozak, the group’s chief songwriter and main vocalist … although Tinnin’s “Five Doors Down in Leadville” often kicks off Junkies shows.

“Leadville” didn’t make it onto “Perennial” as it’s a song that Tinnin wrote specifically for a future StillHouse album.

Which is all fine and good, as it shows how he’s juggled band responsibilities with solo endeavors. Besides, there’s no need for a love song on an old-time tape that’s chock full of songs about death, murder and work. Videos for “Haskell Town” and “No Man for Workin’” live on Tinnin’s website, YouTube and social media. Like the cassette, retro is theme in these two videos produced by Rees Gibbons.

The old-time community has already taken notice. “Old-time banjo lovers need to hear Cody Tinnin,” noted legendary musician Bruce Molsky, who was supposed to be on the bill at the 2020 Durango Bluegrass Meltdown that was cancelled by COVID-19. “His arrangements are solid and clean, playing strong and the compelling timbre of his voice draws you into a very personal and fearless musical statement. I love how he gives respect and freshness to oldies like ‘Things in Life’ and ‘Moonshiner,’ and presents them alongside new originals.”

Even Tinnin’s description of the Oct. 19, 2020, recording location is retro. In the liner notes, he writes “recorded and mixed live to tape at The Little House in Animas City.”

Animas City? That little town that was founded in 1876 on the banks of the Animas River some 2 miles north of Durango?

Yep, that one. At Tico Time, Cody’s father, Glenn, sported a 1970s-style white ringer t-shirt with “Animas City” emblazoned across the chest. The simple design was done by Tim Kapustka of Cabbage Creative. Not coincidentally, Kapustka did the artwork and layout for Tinnin’s cassette.

The tape (and matching T-shirt, also designed by Kapustka) is available on Tinnin’s website and, when he remembers to pack them along, at Rolling Junkies Revues and other live shows.

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Thursday13 “Fancy in Utah: Precious and Exotic Artifacts from the Bluff and Edge of the Cedars Great House Sites,” free webinar, 4 p.m. Register at www.CrowCanyon.org LPEA Board Online Candidate Forum, 5-6:30 p.m.

Hosted by Local First Foundation. Register at: www.localfirst.org.

Tico Time Reggae Fest, 5-11 p.m., Tico Time Resort, 1 mile south of the state line. Also runs Fri. – Sat., May 1516. www.ticotimeresort.com SkaBQ returns, music from Sunny & The Whiskey Machine, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Ska Brewing World HQ, 225 Girard St. Adam Swanson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Rob Webster, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Dustbowl Revival livestream concert, presented by the Sheridan Arts Foundation. Tickets start at $10 and are available at: www.sheridanoperahouse.com. Portion of proceeds goes to the Sheridan Arts Foundation.

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

Trivia night is back! 6:30-8:30 p.m., the Powerhouse, 1333 Camino Del Rio. Socially distanced tables, masks required. No groups larger than eight. $5 suggested team donations. Cash bar, food available from Soup Palette and Mariana’s.

“Carrie: The Musical,” presented by DHS Toupe 1096, 7 p.m. Shows also run May 14-16. Limited tickets available. To purchase, go to: troupe1096.weebly.com Southwest Colorado Community Forum, online, 7-8 p.m. Presented by Colorado Working Families Party, the Colorado AFL-CIO, and United Today, Stronger Tomorrow. Register at: mobilize.us/cowfp/event/374164/ Ben Gibson plays, 7 p.m., Ernie’s @ 11th Street Station, corner of 11th & Main.

Friday14 “Mysteries and Histories” Friends of the Library Book Sale, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., north patio of Durango Public Library. $1 a pound, cash or check only.

Tico Time Reggae Fest, all day, Tico Time Resort, 1 mile south of the state line. Also runs Sat., May 15. www.ticotimeresort.com Gary B. Walker plays piano, 11a.m.-1 p.m., JeanPierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave. “Through” group art show featuring 28 local artists, opening reception, 5-9 p.m., Studio & Gallery, 1027 Main Ave. Only eight people allowed in the gallery at once. Exhibit runs through May 22. For more info, go to: anddurango.com.

One-man show featuring David Yarrow, Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave.

It’s time to swap till you drop. The Durango Devo Bike Swap returns this Sat., May 15, from 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. at Chapman Hill. Gear drop-off takes place Fri., May 14, from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. All current COVID protocols will be followed. For more info., go to: www.durangodevo.com.

Free Virtual Legal Clinic, 4-5 p.m. To sign up, call 970563-9287.

Red Eyed Djinn plays, 4 p.m. The Nugget, south of Purgatory on HWY 550.

Cindy Coleman Pastel Paintings opening reception, 5-7 p.m., Animas Chocolate & Coffee Co., 920 Main Ave., www.duckgirlart.com Gary Watkins, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Dustin Burley, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. “Carrie: The Musical,” presented by DHS Toupe 1096, 7 p.m. Shows also run May 15-16. Limited tickets available. To purchase, go to: troupe1096.weebly.com

Saturday15 Durango Farmers Market, 8 a.m.- 12 noon, Saturdays through October. TBK Parking Lot, 259 W. 9th St. www.durangofarmersmarket.com DEVO 2021 Bike Swap, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Chapman Hill. durangodevo.com/bike-swap/

Harvesting Solar Demonstration and Tour by Derek Wadsworth, Solar Works, 10 a.m.-12 noon, Animas Valley Grange, 7852 CR 203. Short indoor presentation requires mask and social distancing. Outdoor demonstration and tour will follow. For further information see Facebook.

Colorado Public Lands Day “Feel the Burn” interpretive mountain bike ride, 10 a.m.–1 p.m., Boggy Draw Maverick’s Trail. Hosted by San Juan Mountain Association. Free but $10 donation appreciated.

Registers at: www.sjma.org/events/ Cindy Coleman Pastel Paintings Artist Demonstration, 1-4 p.m., Animas Chocolate & Coffee Co., 920 Main Ave. www.duckgirlart.com 4CORE EV Ride and Drive, 1-5 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds featuring the Kia Niro, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt and the Jeep Wrangler 4xe fourcore.org

Garden Club of Durango Annual Plant Sale, 910:30 a.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds. Proceeds go to maintain the gardens at Santa Rita Park.

“Carrie: The Musical,” presented by DHS Toupe 1096, show at 2 p.m. Show also runs May 16. Limited tickets available. To purchase, go to: troupe1096.weebly.com

Tico Time Reggae Fest, all day, Tico Time Resort, 1 mile south of the state line. www.ticotimeresort.com

Leah Orlikowski plays, 4 p.m. The Nugget, south of Purgatory on HWY 550.

Henry Stoy plays piano, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Jean-Pierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave.

Adam Swanson plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.4

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Return of the Jedi! 9:30-10:30 a.m., learn the Japanese weapons and techniques seen in “Star Wars.”

Claire Viles Park (across from St. Columba). www.durangoaikido.com

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Deathly Disney, bad dads and missed connections Interesting fact: Anyone who thinks all Disney movies don’t share a universe has never been to Disneyland, where you can dine with Robin Hood and Cinderella at the SAME TIME. Dear Rachel, So I have become one of these people. I am a Disney conspiracy theorist. There are loads of good theories out there, but my favorites all revolve around characters being dead. Snow White’s prince is actually Death personified, escorting her into the afterlife. Nemo is dead, and the story is actually his dad’s journey through grief. The old man in “Up?” Also totally dead and traveling through heaven. What’s with all the dealing-with-death in Disney that I never realized?

– Bambi’s Mom Was an Inside Job

Dear Me at, Like, 15, Yeah, death is, like, so deep and cool and stuff. Did you even know that Disney puts skulls in character’s eyes right before they die? It’s SO TRUE. Unless it’s not. I try not to trust everything that clickbaity headlines on the internet tell me. Just like I didn’t trust that b Katrina in middle school, before the internet was all the rage, when she tried telling me that the “Lion King” is just Hamlet with lions. I’ll believe a lot, but that is asking too much.

– The wonderful world of, Rachel Gary Watkins, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. “Sweet Simplicity,” live-stream concert, 7:30 p.m., presented by the San Juan Symphony and featuring music of William Grant Still, Stacy Garrop, Benjamin Britten and Claude Debussy. www.sanjuansymphony.org.

J. Calvin Trio plays, 7-10 p.m., Ernie’s @ 11th Street Station, corner of 11th & Main.

Sunday16 Henry Stoy plays piano, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Jean-Pierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave. “Carrie: The Musical,” presented by DHS Toupe 1096, show at 2 p.m. Limited tickets available. To purchase, go to: troupe1096.weebly.com Blue Moon Ramblers play, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Monday17 Animas River Days Virtual Silent Auction, May 1723, www.animasriverdays.com Sand Canyon interpretive hike, 9 a.m.–1 p.m., Sand Canyon/Rock Creek Trailhead. Hosted by San Juan Mountain Association. Free but $10 donation appreciated. Registers at: www.sjma.org/events/

Dear Rachel, The last thing any of us want is another Zoom call. But my nephew lives far away, and he’s finally at the age where he’s not just a helpless lump but rather a helpless lump with personality. So cute! Normally I video chat with him and my sister/his mom. This week, though, Daddy stepped in. And his ideas for baby toys include a pill bottle rattle. Do I call child services right away, or do I wait for him to offer up cigarettes and matches too?

– Speakin Up Dear Whistleblower, Now I feel like I need some more context here. Did the pill-bottle rattle have one of those childproof lids?

Because if it did, I have this feeling that babies could stumble onto opening it more easily than I can open it with all the effort and education in the world behind me. Straight up, though? That’s messed up. My parents made my rattles out of pennies and dimes, and look, I survived. So far, at least.

– Stayin’ alive, Rachel Dear Rachel, My friend and I have been playing phone tag for months. It’s not that I miss her calls, per se.

More like, I see her calling, but I don’t feel like talking then. So I don’t answer. But then I really do call back when I want to talk! It’s been going so long that I have to think she also sees me calling and doesn’t answer. How can I be the one to win this standoff by trying to call her last?

– Send to Voicemail

Dear Busy Signal, Sounds like a big ol’ conspiracy you’ve cooked up there. Occam’s Razor says to go with the simplest answer, which is just that she’s missing your calls. But going with the simplest answer also means that Captain Hook killed the mermaid Ariel’s mom. I looked up Disney conspiracies after getting that other letter, and the evidence is undeniable. Just answer your friend’s calls, before you too go swimming with the fishes.

– Ring ring, Rachel

Rob Webster, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

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Tuesday18 7 Rivers Farmers Market, 12-3 p.m., featuring local farmers, food vendors and artisans, La Plata County Fairgrounds. Masks and social distancing required.

Terry Rickard, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Sean O’Brien, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Spring Seminar Part 2: Day Hiking Essentials zoom presentation, 6-7:30 p.m. Hosted by Durango Outdoor Exchange and SJMA. Register at: www.sjma.org/events/ Book Launch: Chasing the Thrill by Daniel Barbarisi virtual conversation, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Maria’s Bookshop Facebook page.

Wednesday19 Return of the Jedi! 5:30-6:30 p.m., learn the Japanese weapons and techniques seen in Star Wars. Claire Viles Park (across from St. Columba). www.durangoaikido.com Donny Johnson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Meditation and Dharma Talk with Kate Siber, 5:306:15 p.m. Online at www.durangodharmacenter.org/

Terry Rickard, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Joel Racheff, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Grant Livingston plays, 7-10 p.m., Ernie’s @ 11th Street Station, corner of 11th & Main.

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Episode 7 of the Actor’s Journal now streaming, featuring Henry Winkler and more. Presented by the Durango Playfest. For tickets, go to: www.durangoplayfest.org/actors-journal “Cindy Coleman Pastel Paintings art show, thru May 31, Animas Chocolate & Coffee Co., 920 Main Ave. www.duckgirlart.com Family Fun Geo-Caching-Style Adventure, a fundraiser for Fort Lewis Mesa Elementary, through May 16, around Durango and Hesperus. Choose from three levels of difficulty and use your smartphone and problem-solving skills to follow a map and clues to the hidden Roadrunner.

Each map purchased will enter your name into a drawing for a grand prize associated with that map. For info., go to www.theroadrunnerchase.com.

Upcoming “How Connected Was the Chaco World? A Social Network Perspective,” free online talk by Crow Canyon, Thurs., May 20, 4 p.m. Register at: www.crowcanyon.org Kathryn Wilder, author of Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman and Wild Horses in the West, zoom talk, Thurs., May 20, 6:30 p.m. www.mariasbookshop.com Ben Gibson plays, Thurs., May 20, 7 p.m., Ernie’s @ 11th Street Station, corner of 11th & Main.

Joy of Missing Outs play, Fri., May 21, 7 p.m., Ernie’s @ 11th Street Station, corner of 11th & Main.

Super Hero 5k fun run, Sat., May 22, 11 a.m., Eagle Park, Bayfield. $10/adults and $5/children. Register at www.ourbayfieldparks.org.

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In one of her poems, Emily Dickinson tells us, “The pedigree of honey / Does not concern the bee; / A clover, any time, to him / Is aristocracy.” I suggest you be like Dickinson’s bee in the coming weeks, my dear Aries. Take pleasure and power where they are offered. Be receptive to just about any resource that satisfies your raw need. Consider the possibility that substitutes and stand-ins may be just as good as the supposed original. OK? Don’t be too fussy about how pure or prestigious anything is.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A fan once asked composer Johann Sebastian Bach about his creative process. He was so prolific! How did he dream up such a constant flow of new music? Bach told his admirer that the tunes came to him unbidden. When he woke up each morning, they were already announcing themselves in his head. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Taurus, a comparable phenomenon may very well visit you in the coming weeks – not in the form of music, but as intuitions and insights about your life and your future. Your main job is to be receptive to them, and make sure you remember them.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I love unmade beds,” Gemini poet Shane Koyczan writes. “I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be anything but honest. I love the look in people’s eyes when they realize they’re in love. I love the way people look when they first wake up and they’ve forgotten their surroundings. I love when people close their eyes and drift to somewhere in the clouds.” In the coming days, Gemini, I encourage you to specialize in moments like those: when you and the people you’re interested in are candid, unguarded, raw, vulnerable, and primed to go deeper. In my opinion, your soul needs the surprising healing that will come from these experiences.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Trailblazing psychologist C.G. Jung said his loneliness wasn’t about a lack of people around him. Rather, it came from the fact that he knew things that most people didn’t know and didn’t want to know. He had no possibility of communicating many of the interesting truths that were important to him! But I’m guessing that won’t be much of a problem for you in the coming months. According to my astrological analysis, you’re more likely to be well-listened to and understood than you have been in quite some time. For best results, ASK to be listened to and understood. And think about how you might express yourself in ways that are likely to be interesting and useful to others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The French government regularly gives the Legion of Honor award to people deemed to have provided exceptional service to the world. Most recipients are deserving, but a few have been decidedly unworthy. In the latter category are Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, as well as drug-cheating athlete Lance Armstrong, sexual predator Harvey Weinstein and Nazi collaborator Marshal Pétain. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because the coming weeks will be a favorable time to reward people who have helped and supported you. But I also suggest that you pointedly exclude those who have too many negatives mixed in with their positives.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 2010, an American engineer named Edward Pimentel went to Moscow to compete in the World Karaoke Championship. He won by singing Usher’s “DJ Got Us Falling in Love.” His award: 1 million dumplings, enough to last him 27 years. I have a good feeling about the possibility of you, too, collecting a new prize or perk or privilege sometime soon. I just hope it’s a healthier boon than dumplings.

For best results, take some time now to clearly define the nature of the prize or perk or privilege that you really want – and that will be truly useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I will love it if sometime soon you find or create an opportunity to speak words similar to what novelist D. H. Lawrence once wrote to a lover: “You seem to have knit all things in a piece for me. Things are not separate; they are all in a symphony.” In other words, Libra, I’ll be ecstatic if you experience being in such synergistic communion with an empathic ally that the two of you weave a vision of life that’s vaster and richer than either one of you could summon by yourself. The astrological omens suggest this possibility is now more likely than usual.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometimes people don’t like the provocative posts I publish on Facebook. They leave comments like, “You stupid idiot!” or “I hope you commit suicide!” and far worse. When I delete their messages, they become even more enraged, accusing me of censorship. “So you don’t believe in free speech, you jerk?” they complain. I don’t try to reason with them. They don’t deserve any of my time or energy. But if I did communicate with them, I might say, “My Facebook page is my sanctuary, where I welcome cordial conversation. If you came into my house and called me an idiot, would it be ‘censorship’ if I told you to leave?” I hope these thoughts inspire you to clarify and refine your own personal boundaries, Scorpio. It’s a good

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Have you ever kissed a monster in your dreams?

Have you won a chess match with a demon or signed a beneficial contract with a ghost or received a useful blessing from a pest? I highly recommend activities like those in the coming weeks – both while you’re asleep & awake.

Now is a good time to at least make peace with challenging influences, and at best come into a new relationship with them that serves you better. I dare you to ask for a gift from an apparent adversary.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What does it mean to “follow the path with heart?”

I invite you to meditate on that question. Here are my ideas. To follow the path with heart means choosing a destiny that appeals to your feelings as well as to your ambitions and ideas and habits. To follow a path with heart means living a life that fosters your capacity to give and receive love. To follow the path with heart means honoring your deepest intuitions rather than the expectations other people have about you. To follow the path with heart means never comparing your progress with that of anyone else’s, but rather simply focusing on being faithful to your soul’s code.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It’s a good thing when people are different from your images of them,” Aquarian author Boris Pasternak wrote.

“It shows they are not merely a type. If you can’t place them in a category, it means that at least a part of them is what a human being ought to be. They have risen above themselves, they have a grain of immortality.” I love that perspective!

I’m offering it to you because right now is a favorable time to show that you are indeed different from the images people have of you; that you transcend all stereotyping; that you are uncategorizable.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ve personal possession of the universe’s most monumental creation: consciousness.

This mercurial flash & dazzle whirling around inside you is outlandishly spectacular. You can think thoughts any time you want to – soaring, luminescent, flamboyant thoughts or shriveled, rusty, burrowing thoughts; thoughts that can invent or destroy, corrupt or redeem, bless or curse. You can revel & wallow in great oceans of emotion. Whether they’re poignant or intoxicating or somewhere in between, you relish the fact that you can harbor so much intensity. You cherish the privilege of commanding such extravagant life force. I bring these thoughts to your attention because the time is right for a holiday I call Celebrate Your Greatest Gifts.

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