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Without a trace

The places you’ll go

The partial enchilada

COVID contact tracing exposes health-care inequities p7

Amid writing book, author faces adventures big and little p9

The easy way to give everything the red chile treatment p11

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4 La Vida Local

When growing old reaches mythological proportions

4 Thumbin’ It

The Infirmities

by David Feela

5 Word on the Street 6 Soapbox

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7 State News

Losing track

COVID tracing of Latinos in Telluride highlights health-care inequities

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by Markian Hawryluk/Kaiser Health News

11 Flash in the Pan

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12-13 Stuff to Do

Salve for the soul Amid writing kids adventure book, local writer tackles adventures in life

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by Missy Votel

14 Free Will Astrology 15 Classifieds

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15 Haiku Movie Review

The chile rush

A surprisingly easy way to give everything the enchilar treatment

On the cover: A bird’s eye view of Mesa Verde National Park during an aerial flight this week./ Photo by Stephen Eginoire

by Ari LeVaux

Ear to the ground: “I don’t know why they call it a dumpster fire – a fire in a dumpster seems like a good place.”

– Local ruminations on the current state of affairs by which a dumpster fire seems preferable

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A ride or hike might seem like a good idea during the current nonwinter. But before you head out, be forewarned that even though it feels like summer, winter wildlife closures went into effect Dec. 1 on some Durango outdoor playgrounds. The closures, which remain in place through April 15 to protect wintering deer and elk, include: • Grandview Ridge • Big Canyon and Sale Barn trailheads (access located east of U.S. Highway 160) • South Rim Trail and portions of Sidewinder and Cowboy trails on BLM accessed from Carbon Junction or Crites Connect • Grandview BLM trails, accessed from Three Springs • Animas City Mountain upper loops • Upper Twin Buttes loops, as marked • Bodo State Wildlife Area, with the exception of the Smelter Mountain Trail, which is open from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.; dogs are prohibited • Perins Peak area east of County Road 208 and west of Hogsback is closed through July 31 to protect nesting peregrine falcons The good news is, these trails are open: • Horse Gulch, Telegraph, Crites, Meadow, Stacy’s, Mike’s and Sugar trails • All of Raider Ridge Trail to Medicine, Ben’s Down and Out, and the “Charmed” trails • Carbon Junction to Telegraph via Crites • Lower Twin Buttes trails • Dalla Mountain Park • Overend Mountain Park • Fort Lewis College Rim Trails, Lions Den and Chapman Flow • Squawker, Tawker and Skyline trails • The Colorado Trail • Animas City Mountain lower loop

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There’s a saying: conserve water, drink beer.

Well, Colorado’s Molson Coors has put a new spin on that: conserve water, drink seltzer.

A relative latecomer to the hard seltzer game, Coors recently introduced its line of Coors Seltzers with a mission to “do good in the world and restore America’s rivers, with every 12-pack of Coors Hard Seltzer restoring 500 gallons of water.”

Coors Seltzer – which comes in the usual array of black cherry, lemon-lime, grapefruit and mango flavors – has vowed to restore at least 1 billion gallons of water by the end of 2021.

Through a partnership with Change the Course, a national nonprofit that specializes in water restoration and conservation, Coors plans to help restore endangered fish habitat on the Colorado and Yampa Rivers. In all, these Colorado projects will restore more than 260 million gallons of water to the Colorado and 81 million gallons to the Yampa – which is something we can all drink to next summer on the water.

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LaVidaLocal Great Zeus, it’s the Infirmities!

In the pantheon of classical gods, the Furies once stood tall. Also referred to as the “Deities of Vengeance,” these three sisters – born of a union between Gaea (the Earth) and Uranus (a personification of the sky) – mythologically sprang from the blood of their murdered father when he was overthrown and castrated by his son Cronus. You can rest assured the expression “bad blood” was also born from this mythos.

According to Wikipedia, the sisters listened “to complaints brought by mortals against the insolence of the young to the aged, of children to parents, of hosts to guests, and of householders or city councils to suppliants – and punished such crimes by hounding the culprits relentlessly.” One sister meted out vengeance for moral crimes, and the second wreaked havoc on malefactors for infidelity, oath breaking, and theft, while the third sister dealt with murderers. By Greek standards, the Furies stood in judgement over wrongdoing more promptly than our court system – a sister act that would make Whoopi Goldberg proud.

These days the ancient Greeks hold only a passing interest for me, because I’m not required to teach mythology to high school students any more.

Once I retired, the gods and goddesses kindly stepped aside – that is until a new incarnation of the weird sisters emerged, what I will refer to hereafter as the Infirmities.

For youth, believing in the Infirmities will always be a struggle, but I assure you they exist. Daily personal experience informs me of their presence. They congregate around some kind of medical pantheon, and I’m certain they’re sisters. The first one punishes the blood and the bowels, the second wreaks havoc on the skin and the bones, and the third – out of pure spite – just throws a wrench into the brain’s cognition every now and then for the fun of it.

Edith Hamilton’s book relating the timeless tales of gods and heroes is the most famous collection of ancient Greek myths, but any mortal’s life today will gradually turn into a trove of tales, enough to convince a nonbeliever that if nothing else, Medicare must be protected.

Anonimus and the Stone: Once upon a couch, watching a movie, Anonimus felt a needle trying to poke a stitch in his side. As the film progressed, an unseen hand tugged more insistently on the stitch, tightening an invisible thread so that the initial discomfort turned into an acute pain. He stood up and tried to yoga it

away, attempting an Archer’s Pose, Bharadvaja’s Twist the Cow Pose, and, finally, the reliable Downward Dog. But nothing worked. The pain increased.

Anonimus felt as if some hideous creature would emerge from his side. Nausea, cramps, waves of pain pulsed through his body.

Eventually he crawled to his chariot and drove to the ... er ... ER, where a CAT divination procured a reading. The Oracle of Zetroc announced that a stone had rolled out of his kidney and was blocking his ureters. Sisyphus would have sighed. With prescribed drugs, Anonimus returned home to heal and pass the evil pain out his bladder, eternally unsure what he’d done to vex the Infirmities.

Anonimus Grapples with Gravity: In order to apply a layer of wax to the camping trailer, Anonimus grabbed a small step-stool. Hardly as ambitious as Icarus, he simply wanted to reach the roof where he could buff the fresh wax until it sparkled like the sun. Every spring he tended the trailer’s fiberglass skin, keeping it healthy, until a force beyond his control prompted the step-stool to do a sidestep, spilling Anonimus onto the concrete. Ouch, he said, that’s going to bruise.

Overnight the wrist swelled and throbbed like the bass guitar from Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida.” The bruise turned out to be a fracture. As the young orthopedic healer finished shaping and applying the cast, Anonimus asked why bones break so easily. The healer shrugged: You’re old. Well, maybe, but Anonimus had a sneaking suspicion at least one of the Infirmities held him down while another stomped on his wrist.

Anonimus and the Grinder: Chewing on the fragments of a dream, Anonimus woke in the middle of the night with a slight pain in his jaw. He took an aspirin and made an appointment for a reading at the Temple of Teeth, but an X-ray reported the root of the problem too cloudy. No visible decay. Or perhaps Anonimus with the strength of Kratos had been clenching his jaw while sleeping.

Since the pain went away during the day, Anonimus enlisted the help of a night guard, wedging it into his mouth like a clam to keep his teeth apart each night as he slept.

Months passed. Pain that had vanished resurfaced, not just at night but during the day. Gradually a pounding pain. A four-aspirin night, a four-aspirin day. Back at the Temple the priest used a 3D imager, revealing a crack running straight to the root. No choice but to pull the tooth.

Damn the Infirmities!

Sign of the Downfall:

Thumbin’It The Durango High School football team winning the state 3A championship, the first state title for the Demons since 1954

The roll-out of the COVID vaccines this week, with a 90-year-old woman receiving the first vaccine in England on Tuesday

The beginning of snowmaking at Chapman Hill, giving locals at least a small taste of skiing and wintersports

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– David Feela

Finger Lickin’ Dud Forecasts of a strong La Niña continuing to curse the Four Corners with exceptional drought, stubborn high pressure and increased temperatures throughout winter

Signs of new levels of pandemic despair and desperation across the country, with reports that both violent crime and opioid deaths are up by as much as 40 percent

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment data showing that Southwest Colorado’s ICU beds were at or near capacity last week, with staffing shortages looming at area hospitals

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The Lifetime Network and KFC have decided that 2020 isn’t enough of a dumpster fire already, so they made a mini-movie staring Mario Lopez as Colonel Sanders.

Called “A Recipe for Seduction,” it’s slightly Christmasthemed because nothing matters anymore. By coincidence, it was announced around the same time a different company publicized a “Saved by the Bell” reboot, which also stars Lopez from the time before he sold his soul.

Yes, the “movie” is actually a commercial, yes, there will be commercials during the commercial, and yes, they’ll all be about KFC.

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With Trump planning to pardon his cronies on his way out, the Telegraph asked, “What would you like to be pardoned for?”

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“Not making gravy for Thanksgiving dinner.”

Tucker

“Flipping off everyone in Durango who doesn’t know how to turn left.”

Natalie

“Doing a roundhouse kick on my little sister.”

Bailey

“All the massacred tomatoes that went into the bloodies that I drank last weekend.”

Brooke

“Taking my mask off in the stall of a public restroom.”

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ReTooned/by Shan Wells

Stop senseless drilling in ANWR To the editor, Please write letters ASAP re: preserving ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). The BLM has nominations now by the Trump administration for leasing tracts 1-32. ANWR must be preserved for its irreplaceable wildlife: porcupine, caribou upon which the Gwichen tribe depend, polar and grizzly bear, and migrating birds. I traveled to ANWR 30 years ago with a film producer to document the importance of this pristine land to wildlife and culture. Economically it also makes no sense in that oil prices are at record lows, and estimates are that the amount that might be retrieved would be equivalent to the amount of gas used if Americans had correct tire pressure to aid gas mileage.

Please send your comments right away (due in Alaska 12/17) to: State Director BLM, Alaska State Office, 222 West 7th Ave., Mailstop 13, Anchorage, AK, 99513-7504.

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– Margaret Mayer, Durango

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Morning light falls along the plain illuminating infinitesimal sand grains.

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Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center, emigrated from Mexico more than 20 years ago. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has performed contact tracing in the small Telluride community, including among many Latino front-line workers./ Abie Livesay for KHN

Without a trace Tracking COVID in Telluride’s Latino communities exposes health care inequities

by Markian Hawryluk, Kaiser Health News

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arly in the pandemic, Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center, needed to find everyone who’d been in contact with a sick Latino worker whose boss had told him he would lose his job if he didn’t show up.

The man had gone to work and infected four co-workers, all Latinos, with COVID-19 – so Rebolledo León had to track down their movements to determine who else had been exposed.

“I ended up calling 13 different families, and I put a total of 85 people in isolation or quarantine,” Rebolledo León recalled.

People fighting the spread of COVID-19 face many unique challenges when doing contact tracing among lowincome Latino immigrants in tight-knit communities.

Long-standing health-care disparities, job insecurity, immigration status, language barriers and a profound distrust of government all complicate the already tricky task.

COVID-19 has also highlighted how essential those immigrants are to their communities. While Telluride is known for its glitz, it functions because of the workers – many of them first-generation immigrants – within San Miguel County. When the medical center implemented new COVID-cleaning protocols, it fell to a staff of Latinos.

Grocery stores, restaurants and many other businesses re-

mained open only because their Hispanic workers continued to work.

“They are the backbone of what makes this town go round,” Rebolledo León said.

That’s why Latino front-line workers in Telluride and across the country suffer some of the greatest consequences of COVID-19. Hispanic people in the U.S. face higher rates of infection than the general population. And while they make up about 17 percent of the population, they have accounted for 24 percent of COVID deaths.

San Miguel County had 267 confirmed cases of COVID19 as of Dec. 6, but no deaths. Hispanics account for about 11 percent of the population of roughly 8,000 but 23 percent of the cases from March to August.

Even so, it took weeks as the pandemic unfolded, for the county health department to provide information about the virus in either Spanish or Chuj, a Mayan language spoken by many of the county’s residents from Guatemala.

“We were in crisis mode, and I think one of the first things that falls by the wayside is health equity,” Grace Franklin, director of the health department, said. “It took a little bit of time for us to check back in and say, ‘What are we missing? Who are we missing?’”

So public health officials, in Telluride and beyond, are leaning on trusted voices from within those immigrant communities such as Rebolledo León to track and contain the virus, and to help vulnerable people access the care and resources they need.

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“Trust is a huge factor,” Maggie Gómez, deputy director of the Center for Health Progress, a Denver-based health advocacy group, said. “When you show up in a Latinx community in a suit, and you’re knocking on the door and they don’t know who you are … they’re going to be pretty suspicious.”

Many of the people Rebolledo León was calling hadn’t received even the most basic information about COVID-19 in words they could understand. She said they hadn’t gotten clear messages on why they had to stay home if they weren’t feeling sick or why a negative COVID test didn’t mean they were in the clear. She was calling homes every morning, checking to see if anybody had developed symptoms, or needed food or other support to remain in quarantine. She gave them her personal cellphone number.

“I wanted them to have access to a nurse,” Rebolledo León said. “So it became a round-the-clock job.”

A woman with diabetes called asking whether she’d be safe working in a restaurant. A house cleaner wondered if it was safe for her to clean if the owners were at home. They would call her late at night, wondering if they should go to the emergency room when having trouble breathing.

“If you’re insured? Yeah, you go to the ER,” she said.

“But if you’re uninsured? You’re terrified of that $2,000 bill.”

Whenever new information became available, Rebolledo León, who emigrated from Mexico more than 20 years ago, recorded Spanish-language videos on her phone, posting4 Dec. 10, 2020 n 7

Telluride from p. 7 them on Facebook and texting them out. She doesn’t speak Chuj, but the health department hired an interpreter and posted a COVID video in Chuj on its website.

The videos went viral among the Latino communities in the county. So much so that many people Rebolledo León had never met recognized her as Nurse Ximena from the videos.

But by summer, Rebolledo León was overwhelmed and had to step back to focus on her work at Telluride Medical Center. The county health department in April had hired Dominique Bruneau Saavedra, an architect who emigrated from Chile in 2016 and had been working at a local nonprofit. Bruneau Saavedra took over the bulk of contact tracing among Spanish-speaking residents.

In one case, Bruneau Saavedra asked four Latino men to isolate. One lost his job because of it. Many of the people she contacted worked multiple jobs. That expanded their potential contacts.

Housing intended for four people often sheltered six or seven, she said. Some homes had a single bathroom, making it hard for one person to isolate from the rest of the household. For many immigrants, she said, their entire social circle is the people at work. When asked to stay away from their jobs, they may not have other friends outside their home who can help with food or other needs.

Bruneau Saavedra also discovered that many who worked multiple jobs used different names or nicknames with different employers. In trying to track possible cases, at times she discovered two people on her list were one and the same, having the same cellphone number. But she also found households where multiple residents shared a single number.

Bruneau Saavedra said that, when she called non-Hispanics, she noticed a contrast in their level of concern. Some chose to isolate by going camping alone in the woods, she said, almost like a vacation. For low-income immigrants, iso-

Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center, has performed contact tracing in the small Telluride community, including among many Latino front-line workers. Language barriers as well as fear of deportation and lack of health insurance have complicated efforts./ Abie Livesay for KHN lation can be an economic and legal crisis. In Colorado, an estimated 1 out of 3 immigrants are undocumented.

While social services could help with food and other assistance, the agencies needed to know Social Security numbers, immigration status and who else lived in the home.

Those were nonstarters for many who had status issues or undocumented family members living with them.

“It’s been a fight every single step,” Rebolledo León said.

“If you’re undocumented in this country, you are aware

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thesecondsection Local writer Kate Siber with her latest book, 50 Adventures in the 50 States, for adventurous kids (and kids at heart.)/ Photo by Eileen Dawson

Oh, the places you’ll go Amid writing children’s adventure book, local writer tackles adventures in life

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of the U.S.A., came out in 2018.

“I never thought I would write a children’s book, but it was a fun departure,” Siber said. “At first, I thought, ‘Is this really where I want my career to go?’

But I was just having so much fun doing it.”

Siber was approached by Quarto to write both books based on her experience in the outdoor and travel industry. “They thought I was a natural fit,” she said.

“With my involvement in the outdoor industry, and adventure travel especially, I know that terrain really well.”

She was commissioned by Quarto for the 50 Adventures book in the fall of 2019, and in the ultimate twist of art imitating life, soon had an unplanned itinerary of another sort thrust upon her.

“I agreed to the book, and all hell broke loose in my life,” she said.

In November 2019, Siber, who at the time was 39, was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Obviously something one never expects, Siber, a vegetarian and all-around health nut with no family history of the disease, was particularly blind-sided.

“The idea that it was breast cancer really didn’t occur to me,” she said of finding a lump during a self exam. “It was quite a shock to the system. I wanted to say, ‘No, no – you don’t get it. I do all the things right.’” 4

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hances are, most of us could use a little adventure in our lives right about now. And speaking of little adventures, the “littles” among us are no exception.

Fortunately, local travel and adventure writer Kate Siber has just the ticket with her newly released book, 50 Adventures in the 50 States, meant to spark the big imaginations of small readers. (While technically a children’s book, it has plenty of keep adults engaged during storytime, too, from splashy retro illustrations to interesting tidbits on animals, plants and natural wonders.)

“It’s the perfect time for a book like this,” Siber said of the unexpected timeliness of the book. “Even though most of us aren’t travelling anywhere, it feels like it’s what’s needed. Something that is cheerful and celebratory of our amazing public lands in this country … and all the beautiful things we can do in this world.”

For Siber, who is a frequent contributor to Outside magazine and is perhaps best known for her National Geographic hiking guide 100 Hikes of a Lifetime, a children’s book may seem like a bit of a departure. But, as one would expect, she took the new adventure in stride. In fact, this is her second children’s book for the U.K.-based Quarto Publishers – her first, National Parks

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For the next few months, the project was put on the back burner as Siber threw her efforts headlong into fighting the cancer. “It was actually a lot of work,” she said, describing the medical gauntlet, from research and appointments to chemo and surgery. “I was pretty disoriented in the general scheme of things … all work ground to a halt.”

And then, just as she began to come back up for air, the pandemic hit. Siber admits the virus took a bit of a backseat to the cancer, but she still found herself stuck at home due to a chemo-compromised immune system. That’s when she decided to sit back down at her keyboard, with a sense of déjà vu. The last time she sat down to write a book was in January 2017, on the heels of a presidential election that didn’t exactly go as she – and many others – had hoped.

“It was like a trauma; it felt like a very bleak time,” she said. “This was almost like a similar situation. These big writing projects were like a tonic for what my life was serving up at the time.”

While her husband “sheepishly” snuck out the door to ski last spring, Siber poured herself into the book – writing, fact-checking and working with her young U.K. illustrator, Lydia Hill.

“She was just out of school and did an amazing job …

I won the illustrator lottery,” Siber said. However, there were some perhaps more American things that Hill wasn’t so familiar with, like surfing. “I had to tell her, ‘OK, we’re going to need to have the surfers pointed toward shore,” Siber recalled.

Eventually, with the understanding of her editor, Siber’s book came out in October – on deadline.

“It was published on time, and everything ended up being OK,” she said.

Since coming out, the new book has sold close to 5,000 copies on Amazon alone and was featured on the site’s chil-

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The Colorado spread from Kate Siber’s children’s book 50 Adventures in the 50 States, which includes something near and dear to Durangoans’ outdoorsy hearts: ice climbing and mountain bighorns. drens holiday gift guide. Of course, Siber encourages all you locals to buy your copy from Maria’s Bookshop, which will even which will even get Siber to write a personal message on the inside cover.

“It was such a delight. It turned into a real blessing,” she said of the book. “It’s fun to have these random things drop in on you. There’s something so gratifying about creating

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an object in this world.”

And while Siber has her sights set next on an adult book – subject TBD – perhaps she’ll put down the pen long enough to go on a little adventure of her own. (This time the fun kind.)

“A lot of the things I’ve done in (the book),” she said, “but there are some I’d like to do.” n

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The partial enchilada

by Ari LeVaux

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inter is the season for red chile enchilada sauce.

You can almost smell the piñon and juniper smoke drifting from the leaky wood stove, as your mouth explores the profound depths of a good red chile made from scratch. It’s good on potatoes, squash and other wintry foods, keeping you warm inside and out, from your spicy mouth to your sweating skin, and, for better or worse, everything in between.

You can find the ingredients for a good red chile nearly everywhere, from the bulk section of Whole Foods to the “Ethnic foods” aisle of a small town supermarket with little more than salsa, soy sauce and ramen.

We aren’t going to call it “chili,” by the way. The Mexican word for the plant from Mexico is “chile.” Enchilada, meanwhile, is the past participle of enchilar, a Spanish verb that literally means “to put chile on something.” In the popular dish enchiladas, named after that verb, the “something” to which chile is applied is corn tortillas.

In Spanish language slang, enchilada can mean redfaced and triggered, like a charging bear sprayed with mace. Meanwhile, researchers have determined capsaicin does indeed trigger endorphins, which give a rush that has been compared to those of sex, drugs, rock and roll, and runner’s high, depending on what you’re into. The endorphins can dull pain, too, including, fortuitously, the pain of hot chile.

I used to feed cayenne powder to my chickens to make their yolks extra-red. Although they didn’t taste spicy – the capsaicin doesn’t make it to the eggs, even though the beta-carotene does – those yolks, grammatically speaking, were enchilados.

The world’s first enchiladas were little more than tortillas dipped in chile sauce. Generations of Mexican chefs took this initial breakthrough in countless directions.

Chips and salsa are one derivative, although some might argue the chips are actually entomatadas, aka treated with tomato. (Not to be confused with enfrijoladas, treated with beans).

I’ve got some red chile drying in my living room, strung up in ristras New Mexico-style. The peppers are Italian Long Hots, a thin, crinkled chile that is sometimes described as like playing Russian Roulette, because you never know when one will be searing. Mine are consistently sweet at the tips. You take a bite, feel the pungent power, and brace to be slapped, but you get kissed instead by that bright red sweetness. Encouraged, you keep eating, until you get slapped for real as you approach the seeds. It’s a great pepper for red chile sauce, but any whole pod will work, preferably not too hot. When one eats as much chile as I do, one has to pace oneself. If you can’t get whole pods, you can substitute ground chile; depending on its quality and freshness, that can turn out fine.

At some point folks like myself might as well concede that we aren’t actually applying chile to this or that substrate, because chile IS the substrate. And all the other stuff like tortillas, chicken, cheese, et al, are all just different ways to season and decorate the chile. But until then, we’ll keep calling it red chile sauce.

While most New Mexican red chile recipes are thickened with a little flour, I prefer corn masa, the same stuff tortillas and tamales are made of. Masa is a flour made from corn treated with calcium hydroxide. This ancient process (it used to employ wood ash) is called nixtamalization, and it gives the cornmeal a creamier texture.

I gently fry the masa in butter into a kind of roux.

This masa-based roux is easier to manage than a flourbased, and has this fun, smooth foaming action that will eventually develop a nutty brown color and flavor, but isn’t eager to burn. (To stay with this saucy French theme, you could stir in some cream at the very end).

Just a few spoonfuls of masa adds a distinct, dissolvedtortilla flavor that is so noticeable I often skip making the “whole enchilada,” if you will, and simply apply this thick chile sauce to my choice of protein. I’ll garnish with onions, cilantro and avocado and call it good.

Red Chile Treatment 1 quart chicken stock (1+ tablespoons Better than Bouillon paste in a quart of water, or equivalent) 1 ounce dried red chile pod, clean and devoid of seeds and stems 3 cloves garlic 1 tablespoon oregano 2 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoon oil 2 tablespoons masa 1 pound minced onion Optional: cooked chicken meat, corn tortillas, grated jack or similar cheese for the entire enchilada; fresh onions Heat the stock to a simmer. Add the cleaned chile and simmer 10 minutes. Then let sit for an hour.

When it’s cool, add to a blender with the oregano and garlic, and blend until smooth. It will coalesce into a magical, near translucent state of chile gel, and some cooks will call it good right here.

Heat the butter and oil in a saucepan on medium heat.

Add the masa and fully stir it into the oil and butter.

When it starts to brown, add the onions and a cup of water. Cook until the onions are translucent, stirring as necessary to prevent sticking; about 10 minutes. Then add the chile blend and heat to a simmer. Keep it there 510 minutes, stirring often. Don’t overcook. You want to keep that bright red hue.

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Thursday10 National Lager Day

Friday11 Durango’s COVID Drive-In Nutcracker, presented

by Durango Dance, 7 p.m. La Plata County Fairgrounds.

Performances also take place Dec. 12-13. Online streaming available starting Dec. 19. Tickets at: dancestudiopro.com/tickets/durangodance Virtual Pro Se Free Legal Clinic, 4-5 p.m. Call the Ignacio Library to sign up: 970-563-9287.

Reel Rock 15 Online Premiere, hosted by Alex Honnold, featuring four new films, giveaways, Q&As and live interactions. www.reelrocktour.com A virtual evening with author Angelique L’Amour, New York Times Best-Selling author and daughter of Louis L’Amour, 5 p.m., facebook.com/laplataopenspaceconservancy. This event will wrap up the Holiday Market at www.lposc.org.

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Holiday Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds. Masks required and social distancing observed.

Holiday Donation Drive to support the Boys and Girls Club of La Plata County, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Brennan gas station, 1200 Carbon Junction, or visit www.radiodurango.com. Sponsored by Four Corners Public Broadcasting and Brennan Oil. Free Bayfield community drive-thru flu shot clinic for under- and uninsured and frontline workers, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., 271 N. Mountain View Dr. Sponsored by TBK Bank. Coupons for free ice-cream cones at The Pine Cone Restaurant, along with merchandise and samples from TBK Bank and Tailwind Nutrition.

With the cancellation of Durango’s annual Nutcracker Ballet performed by State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara, Durango Dance has stepped up –literally – to fill the void. Dec. 11-13, they will be screening a filmed, COVID safe and all-local version of the holiday classic. The drive-in viewings take place at 7 p.m. each night at the La Plata County Fairgrounds (gates open at 6 p.m.) For tickets, go to dancestudio-pro.com/tickets/durangodance. Online streaming will also be available starting Dec. 19.

Home for the Holiday Spirits – a live virtual holiday cocktail demonstration by the Bookcase & Barber, 5:30 p.m.

Presented by the Professional Women’s Network of Durango. Pre-order to-go cocktail kits by emailing info@book caseandbarber.com. Pre-register at pwn durango.com.

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Sunday13 “Navajo Skies,” a free virtual event hosted by the Powerhouse, 4:30-5:30 p.m. This is the fourth lecture in the Apollo 14 Speaker Series. Tune into @powscicenter live Facebook stream to hear two indigenous astronomy experts, Nancy Maryboy and David Begay, co-authors of Sharing the Skies, a book on Navajo astronomy and the unique way Navajos view the cosmos.

Monday14 Durango Transit Virtual Town Hall meeting, 5 p.m., to hear from the community about priorities for public transit, as well as updates on current projects. Link at DurangoTransit.com Meditation and Dharma Talk with Guy Armstrong, 5:30-7 p.m. online at www.durangodharmacenter.org/

Tuesday15 7 Rivers Farmers Market, winter farmers market, Tuesdays, 12-3 p.m. featuring local farmers, food vendors and artisans, La Plata County Fairgrounds.

Virtual screening of “Trust Me,” a documentary that explores how lack of media literacy is causing physical, emotional and political problems, thru Dec. 31. Fundraiser for Mountain Middle School. Buy tickets at tinyurl.com/yydwoxjv

National Chocolate-Covered Anything Day

Ongoing Holiday Hive Drive, fill out a wish list to hang on the tree or pick one up to help a local family in need, 600 Main Ave., #111. Donations can also be dropped off at Alpine Bank, 1099 Main Ave., or mailed to The Hive, P.O. Box 4432, Durango, CO 81301, now thru Dec. 21.

Animas Museum’s Online Holiday Store is now open, shop for books on regional history and winterthemed historic images. Purchases can be picked up via a contactless system thru Dec. 24.

Visit: animasmuseum.org/HolidayStore.

The D&SNGRR Polar Express and Cascade Canyon trains run on select dates through Jan. 3. Socially distanced cars; masks required. For info, go to: durango train.com.

Holiday Market online silent auction for the La Plata Open Space Conservancy, thru 9 p.m., Dec. 11. www.lposc.org

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Free On-Snow Avalanche Awareness Field Sessions presented by Friends of the San Juans, 10 a.m.3p.m. Dec. 12-13, Lizard Head Pass (Cross Mountain Trailhead parking lot) and Jan. 9-10, 2021, Andrew’s Lake.

Pre-registration required: www.thesanjuans.org.

“Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas,” a traveling exhibit from the American Museum of Natural History, Powerhouse Science Center. For gallery hours, go to: www.powsci.org.

Sunnyside and Fort Lewis Mesa libraries are open, providing books, movies, music, audio books and internet, Mon.-Fri., 2:30-7 p.m. or call 970-375-3816.

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Adhering to guidelines, Bob sells out and Advent-ageous Interesting fact: Approximately 1.3 billion Christmas cards are sent every year, so at least 6.5 billion other people also receive none of them.

Dear Rachel, I started sending out Christmas cards last week and I balked at licking envelopes. This is where the pandemic has brought us. I feel like licking a freaking envelope is the opposite of lovingkindness, of ethical living, of all that Good and Truth stand for this year. I’ve gone nine months without hugging a human being, and I’m going to lick envelopes? Yeah right. But the thing is, Scotch tape on a Christmas card looks tacky. How can I seal my envelopes this year?

– Got Licked Dear Lapping It Up, Who still sends Christmas cards? The pandemic might be killing envelope licking, but sending physical notes through the mail died a long, long time ago. The only Christmas cards I get are from my car insurance company, my pet insurance company, and my grandpa, aka my inheritance insurance company. I still stick them all to my fridge with magnets until at least March, because it makes me feel like I have friends.

– With tongue, Rachel Dear Rachel, Who would have thought I’d ever use these words: Bob Dylan the sellout. Mr. Counterculture himself, Mr. Blazing-new-trails, just sold the Durango Public Library Weekly Activity Kits available for curbside pickup every Tuesday. Kits include supplies for one project for preschool, elementary and teenage students. While supplies last. To request, email reference@DurangoGov.org or call (970) 375-3380.

PIVOT: Skateboard Deck Art exhibit, over 100 skateboard decks painted by 30 different Native American artists, on view by appointment through spring 2021, Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College. swcenter.fortlewis.edu/

Upcoming: Heartwarming Soup Sale, featuring Mediterranean clam chowder, to benefit The Hive. Dec. 17, 4-6 p.m., pick up soup at the

rights to all his existing music for like a third of a billion dollars. I grew up thinking he was the voice of the people, sticking it to The Man. Now he’s just another suit. I realized I’ve been clinging to the same icons for almost 60 years. I need a new rebel. Any recommendations?

– Groaning in the Wind Dear Mr. Complainbourine Man, No doubt Pete Seeger and Woodie Guthrie just died a little more than they already had. Dylan could have at least gone for some evil-genius-level amount of money.

But no one asks for a fraction of a billion dollars. “Yes (in a nasally voice), uh, give me slightly less than one third of one billion dollars (blows into harmonica until the world relents and gives him money).” But dude, he was already a sellout. Have you heard his Victoria’s Secret commercial?

– I do believe I’ve had enough, Rachel Dear Rachel, My mom mailed me an advent calendar, which is a nice gesture and all, but I am a grown woman and I buy my own high-quality chocolate. Now I have these 24 pieces of lowgrade milk chocolate sitting on my counter, and my mom calling me every day to ask what shape that day’s chocolate was. She’s never been this helicopter-y, and I’m about to snap. What’s a way to tell her to back off that doesn’t put me on the naughty list?

– Bad Elf

Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com Dear Darling Daughter, Wait, your mother sent you something? In the mail?

Did she lick the big envelope it was in? Does that mean she loves you? Or is she just an insurance representative who sends advent calendars to all her clients? I never thought I’d feel jealous over two dozen pieces of inferior chocolate – milk chocolate at that – but I’m starting to wonder if I need a better family. Someone to send me heartfelt mementos; someone I can lie to when she asks me about chocolate shapes because I threw that crap away long ago.

– Have yourself a merry, Rachel

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to Taoist scholar Chad Hansen, “Western philosophers have endlessly analyzed and dissected a cluster of terms thought to be central to our thinking,” such as truth, beauty, reason, knowledge, belief, mind and goodness. But he reports that they’ve never turned their attention to a central concept of Chinese philosophy: the Tao, which might be defined as the natural, unpredictable flow of life’s ever-changing rhythms. I think that you Aries people, more than any other sign of the zodiac, have the greatest potential to cultivate an intuitive sense of how to align yourselves vigorously with the Tao. And you’re in prime time to do just that.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What’s the cause of the rumbling at the core of your soul?

How do we explain the smoke and steam that are rising from the lower depths? From what I can discern, the fire down below and the water down below are interacting to produce an almost supernatural state of volatile yet numinous grace. This is a good thing! You may soon begin having visions of eerie loveliness and earth-shaking peace. The clarity that will eventually emerge may at first seem dark, but if you maintain your poise it will bloom like a thousand moons.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author and student Raquel Isabelle de Alderete writes wittily about her paradoxical desires and contradictory qualities. In accordance with current astrological omens, I encourage you to ruminate about your own. For inspiration, read her testimony: “I want to be untouchably beautiful but I also don’t want to care about how I look. I want to be at the top of my class but I also just want to do as best as I can without driving myself to the edge. I want to be a mystery that’s open to everybody. A romantic that never falls in love. Both the bird and the cat.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What would it take for you to muster just a bit more courage so as to change what needs to be changed? How could you summon the extra excitement and willpower necessary to finally make progress on a dilemma that has stumped you? I’m happy to inform you that cosmic rhythms will soon be shifting in such a way as to make these breakthroughs more possible. For best results, shed any tendencies you might have to feel sorry for yourself or to believe you’re powerless.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Novelist Tom Robbins says you have the power to change how you perceive the world.

You can change reality – and

how reality responds to you – by the way you look at it and interpret it. This counsel is especially useful for you right now, Leo. You have an unparalleled opportunity to reconfigure the way you apprehend things, and thereby transform the world you live in. So I suggest you set your intention. Vow that for the next two weeks, every experience will bring you a fresh invitation to find out something you didn’t know before.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was re-elected in 2019. During his campaign, the Virgo-born politician arranged to be photographed while wearing the saffron robes of a Hindu priest and meditating in an austere Himalayan cave. Why did he do it? To appeal to religious voters. But later it was revealed that the “cave” was in a cozy retreat center that provides regular meals, electricity, phone service, and attentive attendants. It will be crucial for you to shun this type of fakery in 2021, Virgo.

Your success will depend on you being as authentic, genuine, and honest as you can possibly be. Now is an excellent time to set your intention and start getting yourself in that pure frame of mind.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When author Ernest Hemingway was working on the manuscript for his novel A Farewell to Arms, he asked his colleague F. Scott Fitzgerald to offer critique. Fitzgerald obliged with a 10-page analysis that advised a different ending, among other suggestions. Hemingway wasn’t pleased.

“Kiss my ass,” he wrote back to Fitzgerald.

I suggest a different approach for you, Libra. In my view, now is a good time to solicit feedback and mirroring from trusted allies. What do they think and how do they feel about the current state of your life and work? If they do respond, take at least some of it to heart.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mistletoe is a parasite that grows on trees, weakening them. On the other hand, it has been a sacred plant in European tradition. People once thought it conferred magical protection. It was called “all-heal” and regarded as a medicine that could cure numerous illnesses. Even today, it’s used in Europe as a remedy for colon cancer. And of course mistletoe is also an icon meant to encourage kissing. After studying your astrological potentials, I’m proposing that mistletoe serve as one of your symbolic power objects in the coming months. Why? Because I suspect that you will regularly deal with potencies and energies that could potentially be either problematic or regenerative. You’ll have to be alert to ensure that they express primarily as healing agents.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): I’m envisioning a scene in which you’re sitting on a chair at a kitchen table.

At the center of the table is a white vase holding 18 long-stemmed red roses. The rest of the table’s surface is filled with piles of money, which you have just unloaded from five mysterious suitcases you found at your front door. All of that cash is yours, having been given to you no-strings-attached by an anonymous donor. You’re in joyful shock as you contemplate the implications of this miraculous gift. Your imagination floods with fantasies about how different your life can become. Now, Sagittarius, I invite you to dream up at least three further wonderfully positive fantasies involving good financial luck. That’s the medicine you need right now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Boisterous Capricorn novelist Patricia Highsmith (1921–95) once made the following New Year’s Eve Toast: “To all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle – may they never give me peace.” Right now I suspect you may be tempted to make a similar toast. As crazy-making as your current challenges are, they are entertaining and growth-inducing. You may even have become a bit addicted to them. But in the interests of your long-term sanity, I will ask you to cut back on your “enjoyment” of all this uproar. Please consider a retreat into an intense self-nurturing phase.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the French city of Strasbourg, there’s a wine cellar built in the year 1395.

Among its treasures is a barrel filled with 450 liters of wine that was originally produced in 1472. According to legend, this ancient beverage has been tasted on just three occasions. The last time was to celebrate the French army’s liberation of Strasbourg from German occupation in 1944. If I had the power, I would propose serving it to you Aquarians in honor of your tribe’s heroic efforts to survive – and even thrive – during the ordeals of 2020.

I’m predicting that life in 2021 will have more grace and progress because of how you have dealt with this year’s challenges.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There are too many authorities, experts, know-it-alls and arrogant ideologues trying to tell us all what to do and how to do it. Fortunately, the cosmic rhythms are now aligned in such a way as to help you free yourself from those despots and bullies. Here’s more good news: Cosmic rhythms are also aligned to free you from the nagging voice in your own head that harass you with fearful fantasies and threaten you with punishment if you aren’t perfect.

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