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Growing stronger

Just a spritz

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Manna, Garden Project merge to pool efforts, resources p8

Up your summer walktail game with this simple sparkler p10

Take a roadtrip with Durango’s favorite ‘moose’cot p12

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Stronger together

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Manna, Garden Project merge to combine efforts, resources

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Elevate your summer walktail game with this sparkly refresher

by Ari LeVaux

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Ear to the ground: “We drink every time someone says ‘unprecedented.’”

– Local discussing her new favorite athome drinking game

Not your dad’s jorts

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Leave it to the folks in Aspen to elevate even the lowliest of mountain wear to new fashion heights. Take the humble jort, a staple on local trails since, well, at least Chad Cheeney moved here in the ’90s. Introducing the world’s first “action sport jort,” made with technical fabric to bring that “I-give-zeroeffs” attitude to any outdoor adventure while supplying that all important stretch and secret anti-chafing properties to the underside.

The sp-jorts were the idea of Aspen resident Elliot Wilkinson-Ray, who launched Ripton & Co., an online start-up last year.

“The idea was to create a young brand with a lot of spunk, a lot of personality,” Vermont-native Wilkinson-Ray said. “We are taking an object from the ’90s that was ubiquitous in that time period and we are making it really comfortable, we are making it a little bit technical – we are just updating it.”

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Remembering a beloved summer pastime

by Burt Baldwin

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After launching online sales last year, Ripton quickly sold out of product and hopes to ship out its second batch soon.

Wilkinson-Ray said his inspiration for athletic jorts goes back to 2014 when he was working for Kitsbow, a San Francisco-based company that makes cycling apparel. With a more sophisticated clientele, Kitsbow didn’t take to his idea of athletic jorts, so he took the idea with him to Aspen when he moved to the area three years ago.

“I thought the sports jorts for the athlete was something that was not happening. It was kind of a fun idea,” the 33-year-old said. “It will be something people want to wear to the Fourth of July or to a baseball game or to go hiking or mountain biking with our buddies – kind of a broad range. We did a lot of skiing in them this spring.”

The company’s name comes from the small mountain town of Ripton, Vt., near where Wilkinson-Ray grew up.

As of now, action sport jorts are only available online at riptonco.com, or via a quick five-hour drive north (Simply shoot them a message on Instagram @ripton_co and they can make it happen, they say). As with all things Aspen, the price may be a little steep for your average dirtbag biker at $89 a pair. But then again, think of all the action you’ll get.

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LaVidaLocal An economics primer “Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.” – D.H. Lawrence Some financial news junkies still associate “trickle-down economics” with Ronald Reagan, our 40th president, who popularized a policy of tax cuts for the wealthy because – as the theory goes – the money would eventually find its way to the working class as surely as water moves from higher to lower ground. Back in 1981, like a school teacher, the President provided a big visual chart which he pointed to during a television broadcast, as if it was a chalkboard and the lesson was easy as pie.

But even before Reaganomics, presidents and pundits both endorsed or disavowed this fiscal concept, as far back as 1932 when Will Rogers coined the phrase: “The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night.”

Unemployed families waiting in long lines for food ought to remind us the economy isn’t working for everyone. Hoarded household staples, a tangled supply chain and our health-care system overloaded to a point of breaking suggests it is time for a new economic metaphor.

We are not simply enduring a sluggish trickle down. It’s more like constipation, what I will refer to hereafter as an improperly functioning digestive economy – one where the money that goes in at the top just isn’t coming out at the bottom.

Proper digestion is easier to understand than finances. Wikipedia explains the body’s processing of food as “the breakdown of large insoluble food molecules into small water-soluble food molecules so that they can be absorbed into the watery blood plasma.” Lean times demand a strength of character, but statistical fiscal formulas are hardly food for thought.

Translated into edible terms, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provided a grocery stockpile for the wealthy. The top 1 percent consumed more sirloin, lobster, Black Forest chocolate cake and lemon meringue pie. The rest of us managed to sneak in a slim helping of pizza, rice, hamburgers and cookies even at the height of the good times. You see, if we consider economics biologically, groceries only nourish workers when they reach the digestive system, and if the decimal point isn’t located in the right place, it doesn’t work.

Here’s where the whole thing gets rather messy. I watched Wall Street hemorrhage gains and losses every day for a month and it made me feel queasy, like riding on a roller coaster. But investors and traders survive on a diet of fear and elation, the financial equivalent of an irritable bowel syndrome. It’s a way of life for them, though for the rest of us not a healthy one. The stock market is said to function as a gauge for our economic wellbeing, but obsessing about Wall Street won’t promote regularity.

A thriving democracy requires cash flow, not speculation, whimsy or selfcongratulatory antics. A nation certainly will not survive by depending on that loaf of highly processed and dangerously malleable white bread in the White House. You see, a strong leader nourishes the whole nation. When the electorate advances a glut of rich and fatty foods, the body politic suffers. It’s time for a healthier diet.

In one form or another what goes in must eventually come out, and if it doesn’t, the people at the top should be the ones experiencing cramps, anxiety and that miserable bloated feeling. They never do, though when resources are distributed fairly we all grow a little stronger. Real food provides energy, shelter bestows safety and a genuine education imparts the insight to recognize the difference between healthy diet and a fast snack political convenience food.

Trickle-down shifts very little to those who need it. A modest individual tax reduction like the one passed in 2017 impersonates a cafe’s daily special because it is designed to quickly expire. The corporate tax breaks, however, were significant, and they were legislated to be permanent, which means the old axiom is true: the top can have its cake and eat it too. In order to maintain the practice of feeding the overfed, workers are expected to put more and more from their pantries back into the government cupboard.

Digestive economics has one special advantage over any other strategy.

Generally, you know when you’re full. Maybe if we thought of our nation’s wealth as food, opening the larder and sharing the bounty would be so much more satisfying than the continual struggle to upgrade the vault’s security system. Food offers a fresher metaphor. Of course, locked away or hoarded, even food spoils, which is when it should be used as fertilizer.

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– David Feela

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A glimmer of hope for sports fans, with MLB and the NHL returning soon for somewhat scaled-back versions of their former selves

The COVID pandemic putting the squeeze on the state’s already-tight education budget, with $621 million slashed from the upcoming school year’s bottom line

A new study by the CDC that corroborates the efficacy of cloth mask-wearing in stopping the spread of COVID, and Walmart jumping abord the mask train, requiring all shoppers to wear them

A new report that found rents outpace wages in every state, with workers in Colorado needing to make $26.45/hour to afford average monthly rent, more than double the state’s current minimum wage of $11.10/hour

The State of Colorado awarding Fort Lewis College $29.6 million for construction of the school’s much-needed new Health Sciences Center

The smear campaign against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the latest pathetic attempt to discredit anyone who dares to speak truth to the Trump regime

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Sixteen years ago, Chex cereal launched a PR stunt in South Korea wherein it asked Koreans to vote for a new cereal president. Cheki would lead the chocolate cereal empire, and Chaka would bring revolution with green-onion flavored cereal. Chex planned on chocolate winning, but the vote was canceled after onion took the lead, and Cheki was declared the winner illegitimately. But after 16 years of political unrest, Chex brought back the vote, Koreans elected Chaka as their new president, and the onion-flavored cereal sold out within two hours. If only all presidents were elected via the popular vote…

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While awaiting the arrival of the summer monsoons, the Telegraph asked, “What are you doing to stay cool?”

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“Swimming, paddle boarding and tubing in the Animas.”

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“Going on hikes in the mountains and taking a dip in the river.”

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“Hanging out on my patio and planting flowers.”

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Remember: wildlife is dying, too To the editor, Every day, Trump and his lackies such as the head of the Department of Interior disbands health, environmental, climate change and wildlife protections and puts you, your family our beautiful lands, and the whole world at risk.

The Clean Air and Water acts have been weakened; safeguards regarding pesticide removed; the Endangered Species Act has been gutted where already in our world we are in an extinction crisis – 10 million species slated to go extinct in next decade or less. They have shrunk our – yours and mine – public lands, such as Bears Ears, to a fraction of what they were and aided oil and gas and cattle to impact those lands. Fossil fuel expansion is aided as much as possible, with oil and gas exploration taking place along our coasts where marine life is already imperiled. Meanwhile the world is in crisis due to climate change, which scientists agree is caused by us humans and our addiction to fossil fuels. (Just ask an Alaskan native – six of their villages have to be relocated due to storms and flooding. Or ask a native islander in the Pacific who had to move to another island due to rising seas).

With removal of protections of wildlife – and lethal attacks on our precious wildlife – including killing bear cubs and wolf cubs in their dens in wildlife refuges in Alaska and scheduled killing of two wolves in Washington State (all that is left after being killed by WDFW). Why aren’t there major protests about this? Where are the college students who should be marching as occurred in the ’70s?

The America we love and our beautiful world are at risk. I ask that you do what you can: contact your congressperson, post on Facebook, support candidates who work for a sustainable future and renewable energy, vote, contact and support organizations such the Sierra Club, and use your money to aid valuable causes instead of buying the latest gadget. In terms of our amazing wildlife

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(do you know how precious our wildlife is and how presidents and individuals fought long and hard for our national parks and to save grizzlies, wolves and whales?)

This is what is precious. I have gone and walked near the

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wolves and grizzlies of Denali, I have watched the antics of grizzly cubs sliding down snow. People from all over the world come to see this, baby bears and wolves deserve our protection, especially in a wildlife refuge. 4

For these immediate issues, I ask that you go to Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity or Endangered Species Coalition. Write a letter to ADFGWE, P.O. 115525, Juneau, AK, 99801. Write a letter regarding the proposed killing of the two wolves to Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, Attn. Nicky Kloepper, P.O. 43200, Olympia, WA, 98504-3200 and contact Washington Gov. Jay Islee. Care deeply and act.

– Margaret Mayer, Durango

The write way to fight racism To the editor, Really, Mr. Mehall? All done at 41 and welcome the new gen to do all the advocacy work, the boring but essential joining of committees to make your town/state/country/planet a little cleaner, healthier and less racist? Wow. At 68 this week, I must be a fool for continuing to be active in these realms and thinking I still have some brain power and ideas to offer.

You say you’ve done a lot of contemplating. That sure is a grand start, but follow-up is what actually gets the job done although the job of making America a better and more decent place for everyone to live in is a wheel that you, at 41, and the younguns and even that 75-year-old guy up in NY state who got his noggin knocked must persevere at turning. So yes, pick your greatest cause and fight like hell. Saving rocks for climbing is not bad but not quite the stretch that I know you are capable of with your capable pen.

Reading stuff is good, yes essential for us white people, teaching stuff as I did last semester at Pueblo Community College with my Ethnic Literature course where we hit Native American and African American and Asian American experiences and lit hardest. Fun to learn from my AsianAmerican friend who was called a banana (yellow on the inside, white on the outside) and you probably already know about apples (Indians who are red on the inside and white on the outside), and one of my beautiful Hispanic students taught us about coconuts ... you get the picture.

Having the difficult conversations about race, yup, and some students learned about white fragility for the first time. I feel good that people left the course more enlightened (count me in), and it only broke my heart to know that in the real world where George Floyd et al, my teaching and learning counts for only so much. I have to believe that Biden’s admin will turn the wheel forward in a much more massive way than has been done for too long, including during Obama’s time. But hope does spring eternal in us teachers. I couldn’t continue to teach unless I still believed in the transformative power of the written word and the action that must follow.

Once you read, once you hear the stories of racism, if you don’t act ... ugh.

Keep on the path and get cracking, Mr. Mehall. There is work to be done, and you have the power to do it.

– Stephanie Moran, Durango Dear Stephanie, Thanks for your letter. As a writer, I normally let my words speak for themselves, but I feel like I have an opportunity here for further elaboration. As I wrote in my essay, I feel similarly to what the comedian Dave Chappelle said in his “8:46” special. I think watching that special – though its vulgarity will surely offend some – would give some insight into what I was trying to express.

I’m going to continue to be an advocate, and I believe I outlined some of those ways in my essay. While you may have interpreted the essay to assume I was giving up, that could not be further from the truth. I was merely agreeing with Chappelle that this new generation is behind the steering wheel. But I am still in the car, with my laptop, writing, recording, and putting some gas money in the tank when it is needed.

I hope you will be relieved that I will never stop being an advocate for what is right, and you are welcome to continue to follow that journey in my work.

– Luke Mehall

ReptileDysfunction:

T-Rex wishes for longer arms so he can drink his beer while trying not to go extinct outside Carver Brewing Co. last week./Photo by Missy Votel

Vote like it’s your life at stake

Turn about is fair play

To the editor, A small handful of police departments, such as Camden, N.J., and Cincinnati, Ohio, have had restructured policies since 2012. Templates that keep communities safe from brutality should be used everywhere.

The deathly incident in Atlanta, where a black man was asleep in his car, created yet another reason for protests. Somehow, two Wendy’s were burned down in less than a month. Fires and looting dilutes peaceful protests, unfortunately.

Ironically, a person named Wendy used to work at a local liquor store in Ignacio, where a customer fell asleep in her car at the drive-thru, without police called. Everything was handled in-house without drama.

Both Black men whose deaths led to protests had substance-abuse issues but they did not deserve to die from a knee or a gun. The woman in Ignacio was treated with compassion despite her obvious problems with alcohol.

What happens after days of protesting, who knows?

New policies are only good if followed. A better path takes consistent leadership from top to local by voting.

Register as if your own life is at stake.

– Sally Florence, Durango

To the editor, An old quote attributed to Sinclair Lewis goes, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” This was perfectly manifested by the sad white males (I wouldn’t call them men), straddling and clutching their substitute manhood while waving flags and revving their big greasy engines to silence and intimidate peaceful protesters on the right side of history in Rifle earlier this month. Social justice advocates could not have made their point more perfectly, especially when you think about how the openly gun-toting, engine-revving bullies would have been treated by police in Rifle had they been black or brown.

– MJ Foulger, Rifle, Colo.

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The Manna garden in full bloom. After a 15-year relationship, The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado and Manna have merged.

Although merger plans pre-dated the pandemic, the current state of affairs solidified the benefits of combining the two nonprofits’ forces. Manna will absorb most of The Garden Project’s programs and staff with an added emphasis on expanded community education related to food insecurity./Photo by Kyler Grandkoski, Manna Garden and Food Security Manager

Growing stronger Manna and Garden Project combine efforts to fight food insecurity

by Missy Votel

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ome things just grow better together, like beans and corn or carrots and tomatoes. So perhaps it’s not surprising that two Durango nonprofits dedicated to growing and giving food to people, The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado and Manna, have become one. Like two peas in a pod.

The merger, which became official June 25, did not completely come from the left cornfield. The two organizations have a 15-year history of working together, through such projects as Manna’s community garden and free market as well as its new greenhouse. The two even share volunteers and grant funding. However, a changing funding landscape and dwindling resources for nonprofits caused the two organizations to finally make the relationship official.

“We just felt like we could do more collectively for the community by collaborating resources,” Nora Stafford, a board member of both The Garden Project and Manna, said this week. “We have similar missions, which is to get at the root of why people are in this cycle of food insecurity. It just seemed like a natural thing.”

As per the merger, The Garden Project was officially dissolved. The school gardens the organization helped start at Miller and Needham will continue to be operated in conjunction with Darrin Parmenter of the CSU Extension Of-

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fice, and School District 9-R. The Ohana Kuleana garden, which was also operated under The Garden Project’s umbrella, recently secured its own fiscal sponsor.

Manna will absorb The Garden Project’s staff, volunteers and programs and expand on the educational component.

This includes a re-envisioned school program, which addresses food security through the lens of gardening, nutrition and community, as well as expanded classes and opportunities for Manna clients and the public.

“After many years of partnering with the Garden Project, I feel this is the perfect merger, especially during these unprecedented times,” Ann Morse, Manna’s Executive Director said. “It was the direction both organizations were going in.”

Although not a direct result of the pandemic – merger talks began in January – the timing was fortuitous for both organizations.

“Although this merger was planned prior to the pandemic, the realities of the current global and local situation have brought the reasons for our union into clearer focus,” said Morse. “By providing food in times of need ... we are building a healthier and more resilient community.”

Manna is one of only a handful of soup kitchens in the United States that has an onsite garden, which was started with the help of The Garden Project as well as the City of Durango. Food harvested from the nearly half-acre garden

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feeds Manna’s clients and supplies produce for Manna’s culinary program, which offers job skills to clients. Roughly 2,400 pounds of produce were harvested in 2018, contributing to nearly 25,000 meals from June to October of that year. With the addition of the greenhouse this year, Manna hopes to provide even more produce by extending its growing season to eight months.

“We have amazing tomatoes in there ... it’s been a huge addition,” Morse said.

The Garden Project was founded in 1998 by Shari Fitzgerald with the original focus of serving at-risk youth through horticultural therapy. Since then, The Garden Project has helped build 22 community and school gardens, worked with the CSU Extension 4-H program to implement a Junior Master Gardener Program, and hosted the annual “One Garden at a Time” farm-to-table event.

Stafford, a retired teacher from Needham who has been involved with The Garden Project for 10 years, said its demise is bittersweet. “We had a mission of growing one garden at a time,” she said. “We met that mission, so maybe it was time to merge. We’ll be stronger with more people to carry on the new mission.”

Fitzgerald, who started The Garden Project as a school project while a student at Fort Lewis College, gave the union her blessing. “My dream for The Garden Project was that it would happen without me, that one day I would wake up4

and hear something great about it,” she said.

Sandhya Tillotson, who served as executive director of The Garden Project for several years, also applauded the move. “I am proud of how much we’ve accomplished together,” she said. “I’m thrilled to see this merger, to continue The Garden Project’s mission of growing a healthier community – in a way that is relevant to the times and increases our focus on food security.”

Members of The Garden Project’s Board of Directors have joined Manna’s Garden Committee to provide continuity in programs, leadership and fundraising. Garden Project staff and AmeriCorps members have also been transferred to Manna to help support its programs as well as the school garden programs – something near and dear to Stafford.

“My passion is to continue this horticultural education for kids,” she said. “In my involvement over the years, I’ve seen the value of an education in a green space vs. screen time.”

But, even more so than feeding minds, it’s also about feeing mouths. And hunger in the community only increasing – Manna has doubled the number of meals it provides since the pandemic started – growing efforts can only help.

“We’ve been partnering with The Garden Project for 15 years, and every year it’s just gotten stronger,” said Morse.

“This is the perfect time for Manna to add programs through Growing Partners and grow into one really strong organization.”

Manna and The Garden Project received a $15,000 grant from the Moniker Foundation, a Colorado-based private philanthropic organization established by the family of local resident Frank Sinton. Moniker has pledged an additional $5,000, contingent on $10,000 in matching community funds. If you’d like to contribute, go to www.mannasoupkitchen.org/donate with a designation to garden programming. n

Doubling down: Manna sees ‘huge increase’ in pandemic

Manna’s Program Services Manager Marissa Hunt displays a cherry tomato from Manna’s new greenhouse, which was built in conjunction with The Garden Project. Rural Alliance for Dignity Americorps Member Sarah Marcus works in the background. Three Americorps members who previously worked for The Garden Project will now work at Manna under the merger./Photo by Kyler Grandkoski

Since the coronavirus pandemic started, families across the country have been struggling to put food on the table – and Durango is no different.

“We’ve doubled the number of meals served since the pandemic started,” Manna Executive Director Ann Morse said. “We’ve seen a huge increase in food insecurity.”

Meals at Manna can take many forms, from grab-n-go lunches to take-home backpacks for local school children to bulk meals for other nonprofit groups.

“We have an open-door policy, if you need help, we’re here for you,” said Morse.

The nonprofit also offers 50 families in need low-cost shares in a CSA, which is comprised of produce from Manna’s garden, as well as food from the Good Food Collective and local farmers. Morse said the benefits are twofold: helping put food on local tables while also helping to support local farmers.

“We’re trying to give families a really good deal while giving money back to farmers,” Morse said.

Although the pandemic has put a strain on everyone, she said one upside is that it has solidified Manna’s relationship with partnering organizations, from the Durango Food Bank to Compañeros.

“It’s made a strong bond; Manna can do what Manna does best,” she said.

Manna’s dining room remains closed to both clients and volunteers at this time, but grab-and-go meals can be picked up seven days a week from 9 - 11 a.m. For more info, go to www.mannasoupkitchen.org

– Missy Votel

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Summer superhero spritzer (*With or without a little extra kick.)

by Ari LeVaux

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very October, I make Concord grape juice and then seal it away in jars. I hoard these sweet vessels until the following summer, when I mix a chilled beverage called spicy grape juice.

I don’t remember my first taste of chocolate, or of bacon, or even mayonnaise, but I’ll never forget my first sip of spicy grape juice. I was an 8-year-old city boy, visiting friends deep in the Massachusetts countryside. One hot day our pack of kids came into the house thirsty. Joan, their mom, emptied jars of grape juice and bubbly into a pitcher of ice, and poured the mixture into glasses on the big dark dining room table. It hit the spot like a jump in the lake.

Carbonated water – aka seltzer or bubbly – contains carbonic acid, which triggers receptors on the taste buds that detect mustard and horseradish. This produces the distinct spicy taste of bubbly. For some reason, a little pain in the water makes it more drinkable, for some people anyway. The action is similar to how a dash of spicy hot sauce can make a taco more delicious. LaCroix has leveraged the resulting endorphin rush into drinks that feel like soda pop, even when completely unsweetened.

It was unusual to consume something so completely satisfying out of Joan’s kitchen. Her style of cooking was my first exposure to the unprocessed, “natural,” far-left wing of food. Of whole grains, carob, nuts and beans. Her archenemy was sugar.

I wondered if this diet had something to do with the fact that Joan’s kids were as tough as superheroes. They would jump off the roof for fun and cover long distances through the woods (sometimes popping out near a gas station that sold candy).

Although I didn’t realize it at the time, Joan’s simple drink harnessed multiple forces into that unusually satisfying drink. It contained plenty of those elusive sugar molecules, thanks to that sweet grape juice. Because of the carbonic acid, bubbly has a sour taste which harmonizes with the sour component of the grape. In that hot, dehydrated moment around the dark wooden table, the cold combination of

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spicy, sour and sweet was like being plugged into an electrical socket of thirst-quenching power.

Years later, I found myself with a Concord grape plant of my own and, as luck had it, a home seltzer maker. Sud-

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denly, I had all the spicy grape juice I cared to drink, which is a uniquely satisfying feeling. Nowadays, I use Joan’s mix as a base for exploring more complex combinations of sweet, sour and pain.

My current spicy grape juice recipe includes both lemon and grapefruit juices as well, which add extra shades of tartness to complement the grape and carbonic acid. Grapefruit is also bitter, a flavor that, like sour or bubbles, softens with a little sweetness. I like to add spearmint, which has a sweet flavor. And I add rose petals, when available, preferably yellow, which goes best with purple. The petals float there and smell beautiful while you drink, a reminder to smell the roses while you can, because summer won’t wait. And this is one of the best ways to enjoy it. Whether you take your spicy grape juice mixed, spiked or straight, the sweet bubbles and acids will help you squeeze every drop of summer onto the melting ice cubes of life.

Rose petals are not essential to the architecture of this drink, so don’t sweat it if you can’t find any. But if you know a rose bush that has not been sprayed, then by all means pick a few – with permission, if necessary. Rinse off any bugs or dust that might be on the petals before you add them to the drink. Make sure to use a straw so you don’t get petals in your mouth.

If you can’t get spearmint, find the sweetest mint you can. If you wish to add booze, I suggest limoncello or something like it, such as the Licor de Limon I brought home from Spain.

Bubbles and Roses Serves 6 2 lemons, 1 juiced and one sliced 1 grapefruit, half juiced and the other half sliced 6 sprigs spearmint Rose petals, preferably yellow (optional) 1 quart grape juice 1 quart seltzer Divide the lemon and grapefruit juice among six glasses. Add a sprig of mint to each glass. Layer in the ice cubes with rose petals and thin slices of fruit in each glass, and then add the grape juice. Finally, add the bubbly to each glass, slowly, so it stays on top and doesn’t mix until you want it to. Serve during a hot summer afternoon. n

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Alice Wallace plays folk, country and blues for the free Concerts @the Park virtual concert series, 5:30 – 7 p.m. To log on, go to www.durango concerts.com.

National Junk Food Day, eat a Twinkie.

Wednesday22 “Osteoporosis and Bone Fracture Prevention,” free Facebook live discussion, 6 p.m., presented by Mercy Orthopedic Associates. tinyurl.com/y9nq3qoy

Jose Villareal plays, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Dave Mensch plays solo, 6 p.m., 11th Street Station.

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Lacey Black/Dale Elliott play ragtime and honky-tonk piano, 12 noon – 2:30ish, daily at the Grand Imperial’s Lone Spur Cafe in Silverton.

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Mountain Archery Festival, July 17-19, Purgatory Resort, www.purgatory resort.com. iAM Music Festival Kickoff Party, featuring Cassidy Bacon, Funk Express, Profetic Calaveras and Ghost Tapes, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m., The Nugget Mountain Bar. Tickets and parking are limited. Park at the Purg Gelande lot and take the shuttle or pull into The Nug for valet parking. Buy tickets at www.iammusic.us.

The Hive offers daily youth activities including “Musical Mondays,” “Sewing Tuesdays” and “Theatrical Durango-based artist Alex Blocker headlines the iAM Music Fest this Friday at Buckley Park.

Thursdays.” Space is limited and Tickets are available for VIP tables and 6-, 4- and 2-person lawn circles. A classically trained masks are required. For info or to sign musician, Blocker is making a name for himself on the Colorado hip-hop scene with his up, email Kelsie@hivedgo.org genre-fusing style that blends his Chicago roots with violin, hip-hop, R&B and jazz. and 2-person socially distanced lawn circles. $25-35. Buy at www.iammusic.us/iam-music-fest.

Liver Down the River plays, 6 – 9 p.m., Gazpacho’s parking lot, 431 E. 2nd Ave. Bring your own lawnchair.

Sunday19 Henry Stoy plays piano, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m., Jean Pierre Wine Bar, College Drive and Main.

Saturday18 Durango Dirty Century, 100-mile backcountry mountain bike endurance event sponsored by the Colorado Endurance Series, 6 a.m. start, Durango Cyclery.

Durango Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. – 12 noon, in TBK Parking Lot, across from the Transit Center.

Facemasks required. www.durangofarmersmarket.com.

Edible/Medicinal Plant Excursion, 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Participants meet at the Rec Center and carpool to the site. Register at the Rec Center or at DurangoGov.org.

More information: AlpineHike@gmail.com. $35.

Men Who Grill at Home, a fundraiser for the Womens Resource Center, will stream live on the WRC’s Facebook page at 5 p.m. Donate to your favorite team at https://tinyurl.com/y8mf2qzl.

Andrew Schuhmann plays, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave iAM Music Festival, featuring J-Calvin, Ghost Tapes and Alex Blocker, early show 4 - 6 p.m., late show, 7 9:30 p.m., Buckley Park. Tickets for VIP tables or 6-, 4-

Blue Moon Ramblers play Americana/bluegrass, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Devon Scott performs everything from R. Kelly to Patsy Cline on ukulele, July 19, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., 11th Street Station.

Bear Safe 65-Gallon Container giveaway, for secure storage of livestock and pet feed, harvested fruit, compost and more, 4 – 6 p.m., Lewis True Value Mercantile parking lot, 311 Bayfield Center Drive, Bayfield. $50 donation suggested, first-come, first-served. For info, visit bearsmartdurango.org or email bp@frontier.net.

Monday20 Adam Swanson plays Ragtime piano, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Meditation and Dharma Talk with Louije Kim, 5:30- 7 p.m. online at www.durangodharmacenter.org/ Rob Webster plays, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

“Earth … Sky… and Soul” of COVID-19, a new show by Karyn Gabaldon, Thurs., Fri. and Sat., noon – 6 p.m. and by appt. 680 Main Ave. Pine River Library is offering curbside checkouts Mon.-Fri., 2-6 p.m., and Sat., 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. For info., call 970-884-2222 or visit www.prlibrary.org.

Durango Public Library’s Summer Reading Program for kids, teens and adults, thru Aug. 1. Register at DurangoGov.org/library or call 970-375-3380.

Upcoming: The Southwest Civic Jazz Orchestra plays for the free Concerts @the Park virtual concert series July 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m. To log on, go to www.durangoconcerts.com.

Larry Carver & Jack Ellis play, July 23, 7 p.m., Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave. Sean O-Brien plays, July 24, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Zion Spencer plays, 6 – 9 p.m., 11th Street Station.

Kirk James plays solo blues July 24, 6 p.m., Union Social House,3062 Main Ave. The Black Velvet Duo, with Nina Sasaki & Larry Carver, play July 24, 6 p.m. at the Dandelion Café (previously the Cyprus Café), 725 E. 2nd Ave.

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Bird brains and insufferable vegans Interesting fact: Twenty-five percent of peanuts sold between March and October go to baseball stadiums. But not this year. Save the peanuts! Feed them to your animals. (Without xylitol.)

Dear Rachel, I put out birdfeeders this spring for the first time since kindergarten, back when I rolled pinecones in peanut butter and hung them out for the birds. I had way more success with the PB&P than with my $30 feeders filled with $40 feed. The birds ate the seeds down about 2 inches and then just … stopped. They’ve literally eaten nothing since April. Did a disgruntled bird leave me a bad Yelp review? How can I recover my visitors?

– Eating Like Birds Dear One Starling Review, So many variables here. Did you use locally sourced sunflower seeds? Is the millet organic? Did you offer bubbly water in a birdbath, or just tap? All I know is that the customer is always right, even when they are bird-brains. I think you have no choice but to return to peanut butter on pinecones. Better make it almond butter, in case of peanut allergies. And a cashew butter one, just in case. On local Colorado ponderosa cones. Naturally.

– Cheep ass, Rachel Dear Rachel, My boyfriend recently went vegan. I support him in his decision. I just made him swear that

he would not be an insufferable vegan. He agreed, but I now realize that insufferability is part of the job description. I can’t eat a (veggie!) pizza without him berating me about the dairy cows who suffered for my cheese. Then he criticizes me for eating the whole pizza. (What, I’m supposed to throw out the half he used to eat?)

Even when he shuts his trap, his expressions are more vivid than a TV drag queen. Do I break up with him in person, or will a note on the empty pizza box suffice?

– Bite Me (Oh Wait, You Can’t Because I’m Meat) Dear Milk Maiden, If there’s anything worse than an insufferable vegan, it’s an insufferable vegan who thinks you’re still together. Too bad he couldn’t find more subtle ways to criticize your life choices. He might not be willing to touch the pizza box. Traces of cheese, and all that. Better make the message clear: write out your signature, the whole thing, in whipped cream on his side of the bed.

– Veg out, Rachel Dear Rachel, There’s a shop I used to take my dog into, back in the days when we could feel safe in public places. They always gave him a treat, and he L-O-V-E-D their treats, and I really saw how he bonded with them. So I bought him a bag of those treats. Not only does he ignore the treats, he ignores me too. How can I get back in my buddy’s good graces?

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Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com Dear Canine Style, Is your dog an insufferable vegan? I hope not. Vegans can actually be really cool people. They often have admirable reasoning behind their dietary restrictions. It’s the judgy evangelical fervor that ruins it for the rest of us. Don’t let your dog go down that road. Ditch the treats. Try rolling him some pinecones in peanut butter to win his love. Or, just roll him in peanut butter.

– Good dog, Rachel

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time,” Aries educator and activist Dorothy Height wrote. This approach worked well during her 98 years on the planet. Her pioneering advocacy for African American women generated a number of practical improvements in their employment opportunities and civil rights. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Aries, I highly recommend her guiding principle for your use.

You now have the power to ripen the time, even if no one else believes the time is ripe.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.’” A wise and talented woman said that: Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s excellent advice for you to embrace during the coming weeks. You’re close to finding and accessing a mother lode of inspiration, and one of the best ways to ensure that happens in an optimal way is to make “I don’t know” your mantra. In other words, be cheerfully devoted to shedding your certainties. Lose your attachment to the beliefs and theories you tend to overly rely on. Make yourself as empty and clear and spacious as you possibly can.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini-born author Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) was a world traveler who wrote in several different genres, ranging from lesbian fiction to essays on boxing to plays that used poetic language. She was experimental and empirical and experiential. On one occasion, she voluntarily submitted to the force-feeding endured by hunger-striking suffragists so she could write about what it was like to be tortured.

Another fun fact about Djuna: Every morning, she did up her hair and put her make-up on, then climbed into bed and wrote for many hours. In the coming weeks, Gemini, I recommend you draw inspiration from every aspect of her life – except the torture part, of course. The coming weeks will be a fine time to be versatile, exploratory, and committed to expressing yourself purely in whatever ways make you comfortably excited.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Cancerian, you have a natural propensity to study and understand what author Margaret Atwood describes as “echoes and emptiness and shadow.” I believe this aspect of your repertoire will be especially active and available to you in the coming weeks. For best results, regard your attunement to these echoes and emptiness and shadow as an asset, even a precious talent. Use it to discern what’s

missing or lost but could be recovered. Invoke it to help you navigate your way through murky or confusing situations.

Call on it to help you see important things that are invisible to others.

minimize. Another good trick is to reinterpret challenging past events so that you can focus on how they strengthened you and mobilized your determination to be true to yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark,” actor and screenwriter Nia Vardalos said. That’s a rousingly poetic speculation – and more metaphorically true than literally. But I suspect that if it ever might have a useful and meaningful application to an actual human struggle, it will be yours in the coming months. In my view, you are in fact capable of harnessing the magic necessary to transform a wound into a lovely asset. Be bold and imaginative as you carry out this seemingly improbable feat – which is actually not improbable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): “A person must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur,” Sagittarian author and activist Jean Genet wrote. “And dreaming is nursed in darkness.” According to my analysis of your astrological omens, this is an apt description of what has been unfolding for you, Sagittarius – and will continue to play out for you in the next two weeks. If you’re aligned with cosmic rhythms, you have been nursing your dreams in darkness – exploring and cultivating and learning from the raw creative energy that is simmering and ripening in your inner depths.

Keep doing this important work, even if there are not yet any productive results.

Eventually, it will enable you to “act with grandeur,” as Genet said.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Would you like to boost your mental and physical health in the coming weeks? Try this: Immerse yourself in the understanding that you’re interconnected with everything in the world. Tell yourself stories about how the atoms that compose your body have previously been part of many other things. This isn’t just a poetic metaphor; it’s scientific fact. Now study this passage by science writer Ella Frances Sanders: “The carbon inside you could have existed in any number of creatures or natural disasters before finding you. That particular atom residing somewhere above your left eyebrow? It could well have been a smooth riverbed pebble before deciding to call you home. You are rock and wave and the peeling bark of trees, you are ladybirds and the smell of a garden after the rain.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s a favorable time to celebrate the fantastic privilege of being alive. Are you willing to believe that? Will you cooperate with my intention to nudge you in the direction of elation and exaltation? Are you open to the possibility that miracles and epiphanies may be at hand for you personally? To help get yourself in the proper mood, read this passage by Libran author Diane Ackerman: “The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): ‘“Deciding to remember and what to remember, is how we decide who we are,” poet Robert Pinsky writes.

That’s useful counsel for you right now, Scorpio. You’re entering a phase when you can substantially reframe your life story so that it serves you better. And one of the smartest ways to do that is to take an inventory of the memories you want to emphasize versus the memories you’d like to

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau said, “There are truths that one can only say after having won the right to say them.” In my estimation, you have recently earned the right to express a fresh batch of scintillating and useful truths.

Please do us all a favor and unveil them – preferably with both candor and tact. In behalf of everyone who will benefit from your insights, I’m sending you congratulations for the work you’ve had to do on yourself so as to win them.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works,” musician & singer Gwen Stefani testifies. In my own life, I’ve had to make a fool of myself more than a few hundred times to learn what works. My number is closer to a thousand – and I’m still adding new examples on a regular basis. In the coming weeks, Aquarius, I highly recommend that you try what has served me & Gwen Stefani so well. You’re entering a phase when your foolishness will generate especially useful lessons. Being innocent & wildly open-minded will also be very useful.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution,” author and futurist Alvin Toffler wrote. While I hesitate to declare that idea to be absolutely and always true, I do recommend it to you in the coming weeks. Given the fact that you have recently been expanding possibilities and cultivating breakthroughs, I’d love to see you keep on pushing forward until you climax your momentum. To boost your courage, try to think of a crazy cry of exhilaration you might exclaim as you make your leaps, like “YAHOO!” or ‘HELL YES!” or HERE I COME!”

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Ode to the glove Sometimes it was left hanging on the handlebar of the bike.

Sometimes it was left on the workbench in the garage or forgotten on the front lawn. Sometimes it was thrown on the kitchen counter, much to the annoyance of Mom, but wherever it was left, it was quickly relegated to its proper place, the boy’s closet. For you see, the glove was a vital extension of a young man’s life. After school, it was the first thing retrieved while heading to the sandlot. It was the ultimate companion of the game.

The glove was well maintained.

It had its nobility. It was wiped down, oiled, shaped, pounded and then molded with the insertion of a certified major league ball, wrapped tight with a belt and left to sit overnight. The glove was an outfielder’s Rawlings, made of the finest cowhide.

The glove identified you with the neighborhood gang. Whoever you were, the glove was key to where you would play. The glove had kin. Some players wore the first baseman’s glove, modeled to snap and scoop. Others wore the infield variety, compact and light. The catcher needed the circular target with plenty of padding. The pitcher needed a deep pocket to hide the grip. Of course, my favorite was the outfielder’s glove. It was larger than most, with long fingers to

snag the liners and a deep pocket to basket the fly.

The glove was given to me on my 11th birthday during the summer of 1961. I never forgot that day, some 49 years ago, and it has remained with me since. From Little League, through Babe Ruth and varsity ball, it has been by my side. I used it for years, playing softball in Durango. I carried it to the outfield and infield, playing for such teams as Elmore’s Store, Oscar’s Diner and the Old Muldoon Tavern.

It came with me during my coaching days at Ignacio High School. It had experienced the best and worst of games. It had survived the rainouts, hot sun and muddy slide. It was the recorder of the game’s history with its scratches and stains; its torn lacing and bruised fingers. It was a joyful part of a cherished personal memoir.

With the pandemic shutting down most of our society’s sporting activities, the glove has been relegated, once again, to the closet.

And the great game of baseball has been relegated to a memory, for now. I pulled it out of the closet the other day, pounded it to perfection, while recalling the old days. I promised that it would, one day, head out to centerfield with me to make that all important defensive play. Hopefully, we will not have to wait too long.

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