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A Healthy State of Mind F The editor and her figure skating students.

or me, that healthy state is called Colorado. I grew up here, then lived in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. I'm celebrating a five-year anniversary since returning home to the Mile High State on “March forth!”

2011—a memorable date.

Coming home cured most of what ailed me.

No longer oppressed by fog-bound San Francisco summers, I jettisoned my full-spectrum lamp. (That’s a substitute for sunlight; it helps people who get depression related to Seasonal Affective Disorder.) I also ditched a whole drawer-full of asthma inhalers and allergy medications. The formerly sad, breathless, housebound gal marched forth: I was soon back skiing. I began teaching figure-skating classes. In the summer, I went out hiking and bicycling.

It’s wonderful what clean air, 300 days of sunshine a year and abundant outdoor exercise will do for a body, not to mention the spirit!

A decade ago, I took a Kaiser-Permanente class on how to prevent depression. Outside of SSRI medications and cognitive behavioral therapy, the best prescriptions are to go outside, get into the sunshine, exercise and spend time with friends. Mostly, that’s what we do here. It’s our lifestyle.

It’s part of why Colorado ranks as the nation's eighth-healthiest state. We have the lowest level of obesity, the highest level of active gym membership and a low rate of diabetes. But among our challenges are binge drinking (11th in state rankings in 2014), whooping cough outbreaks, kids who are less active than adults and serious disparities in access to health care.

In this valley, we suffer from binge drinking and too many suicides. And our healthcare challenges are pronounced. There's a serious gap between the healthcare and the housing that many locals can afford and what’s available. I feel the loss of too many people who have moved away because of these issues.

I’m grateful for the leaders who are addressing these problems. I’d like to give a shout-out here to Basalt Mayor Jacquie Carpenter Whitsitt and the Basalt Chamber of Commerce for convening recent healthcare forums and to Amy Kimberly, executive director of the Carbondale Council for Arts and Humanities, for her work on convening folks to think of creative solutions to our housing problems. I'm raising a glass of Big B's apple cider and giving these two a toast.

And while I'm at it, here's a toast to our loyal readers: Here's to your health! May you make age curious, time furious, and all of your friends envious!

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Publisher's Letter

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Good Times

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Around Town

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Artist's Palette

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Healthy Lifestyle

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Parting Thoughts

17 Massage that Opens the Doors to Change Tears and Laughter on Janelle Forbes’ Massage Table

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22 Healthy Parenting & Social Media Tips from Talks with Local Parents

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The Back Door Exit of Winter I

t's mid-February as I write this, and I'm counting the days until warmer temperatures arrive. But back in October, I was one of the people who were looking forward to that first big snow. Anticipation even from me, a non-skier!

Yes, I’m one of the few who don’t tune skis and check bindings three times in anticipation of the first big dump. I have tried skiing a half a dozen times—and visited the hospital twice. First I came out with crunches; the next time, I came out with an arm sling for a separated shoulder. Coming down the slope, my state of mind was comparable to that a semi-truck driver looking for the runaway ramp.

Thus, I look forward to warmer weather, polishing my golf clubs or going through my fly box rearranging my dry fly and nymph selections endless times.

Still, I welcome deep snow. The storms that come from December through February set the tone for winter sports and the local economy. This winter, we went through a spell of 5- to 15-degree nights, with day temperatures never reaching more than 25 degrees. The sun couldn’t peak through, even briefly. Even my ski friends began to complain!

About the time you think you are going to lose your mind, the sun shines brightly and the temperature hits 40 degrees. You unzip your heavy coat and even think about leaving it in the car. We all know that this is a false start to spring, but it does wonders for us mentally. And we know what it means—that soon, the roads will turn sloppy with melting snow.

By the time you will be reading this, it will have started. The joy of Mud Season! A time when the tourists have gone, leaving the slopes to locals and the shops filled with sales. The price we pay for these benefits? The roadways are filled with slop, their shoulders caked with dirty snow. No matter! We have learned to buy our windshield solution in 55-gallon barrels.

As we enter March, my thoughts turn to building elevated planting beds and the landscaping changes I have planned. And then there’s golf—as long as you don’t mind the snowdrifts that have accumulated in the sand traps.

Oh the joys of early spring in the Rockies! I love knowing that winter is finally creeping out the back door—that is, of course, unless a March blizzard is blowing in through the front!

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MARBLE DISTILLING WINS NATIONAL AWARD The family-recipe coffee liqueur Moonlight EXpresso, created by Marble Distilling Company (MDC) in Carbondale, was the only Colorado spirit to win a 2016 Good Food Award. The Good Food Awards recognize that producers of truly good food—the kind that brings people together and builds strong, healthy communities—recognize both responsible food production and superior taste.

“What an honor it is to be included with this amazing group of producers who, first and foremost, believe in quality, taste and sustainability.

Many of the people we met have spent years and years perfecting their craft to a higher level for the good of humanity,” says MDC founder and head distiller Connie Baker.

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Roaring Fork High Students at solar array dedication; photo by Katharine Rushton.

ROARING FORK HIGH STUDENTS DEDICATE SOLAR ARRAY Students in the Rams Energy Club, led by Fiona Laird, Emily Mata and Tavia Teitler, dedicated the new 385-kilowatt solar array at Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) in late January. The 1,242 solar panels will provide for all of the high school’s annual electric needs and will also

ipe from Baker's family. Inspired by the coffee brewed by the Italian craftsmen who worked long hours in the Marble quarry, Moonlight EXpresso is a complex dark roasted coffee liqueur that blends the sweetness of vanilla bean and natural cane sugar. MDC is collaborating with Bonfire Coffee of Carbondale to create a true local spirit.

DANCE INITIATIVE ANNOUNCES RESIDENCIES FOR 2016

feed extra electricity into Xcel Energy’s grid. Over the course of a year,

The 2016 Artist In Residence program, sponsored by Dance

the array is expected to produce nearly 613,000 kilowatt-hours of elec-

Initiative, has announced the names of three arts groups who will be

tricity. That’s comparable to the electricity used in a year by 85 homes.

in residence at the Launchpad in Carbondale this year. In April and

Katharine Rushton, who supported the RFHS Energy Club students

May, Denver-based dancers Meg Madorin and Laura Ann Samuelson

through the multi-year project, said, "This was not an easy project to

will collaborate with artists from local dance company CoMotion.

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From July 11 through 16, Hewman, a collaborative, unconventional

Arts and Humanities, highlighted one possible avenue for relief: a

dance project from New York City, will stage an open rehearsal, a pre-

new state initiative called “Space to Create.” The initiative aims to

sentation for youth, a workshop and a performance of work in prog-

provide affordable housing for artists and others in the “creative

ress. In October, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, former Merce

industries.” Kimberly says it “would be perfect for our community,

Cunningham company members, will create a new work. Finally, in

and our whole valley.” She explains, “I would say that about 75

November, Carbondale’s own Alya Howe will create an original work

to 80 percent of people here are engaged in a creative industry”

involving multi-media and the community.

which includes people in the design and construction trades, sewing, culinary professions and even teachers.

Kimberly, who is leading Carbondale’s move toward becoming an official Colorado Creative District noted, “We’ve noticed that where artists congregate tend to become desirable places, which drives up housing costs and then the artists get out priced and can’t live there.” Out of the Carbondale meeting, working committees are being formed to envision a development that addresses multi-use, affordable housing in the Roaring Fork Valley region.

STATE PRIORITIZES BUILDING OF TWO LOCAL TRAILS LOCAL GATHERINGS SEEK HOUSING SOLUTIONS In February, the commissioners of Eagle County—which includes El Jebel and some of Basalt—sponsored a community forum on

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper recently listed a 74-mile trail between Carbondale and Crested Butte as one of 16 trail-building projects that are a priority for the state. A few stretches of this trail have been completed, including a five mile segment linking Carbondale to the existing Rio Grande trail.

affordable housing, preceding it with a column in the Aspen Times.

The 74-mile Crested Butte to Carbondale Trail was first envisioned

They wrote, “Rental units are 99 percent occupied. County-owned

in 2004 to provide paved and natural-surface trails for Carbondale,

housing units for low-income families and seniors have a wait list of

Redstone and Crested Butte residents. The next step is to complete

two to four years… The median home price has increased 17 percent

the 17-mile Crystal Valley segment, linking the trail to Redstone and

over the past 21/2 years to $586,250. This is out of reach for many

McClure Pass.

who could afford to buy on the Front Range—our workforce competitor—or in other areas.”

The Lower Valley Trail out of Glenwood Springs also made the governor’s list of priority trails, part of the “Colorado the Beautiful”

Another forum, sponsored by the Carbondale Creative District,

initiative. The effort, started in 2015, aims to encourage Coloradans to

the Glenwood Springs Post Independent, Third Street Center

participate in healthy outdoor activities. Colorado the Beautiful hopes

and Community Builders, focused on Glenwood Springs and

that within a generation, every Coloradan will live within 10 minutes

Carbondale, towns that have similar issues. At that gathering,

of a park, trail, or vibrant green space.

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OLD GLENWOOD LIBRARY TO BECOME SENIOR CENTER Garfield County commissioners have approved purchase of the old Glenwood Springs library at 413 Ninth Street with the aim of turning it into as a senior center. Inspections and final approvals. The library building is about 5,000 square feet and comes with seven, offthe-street parking lots. The building's restrooms, doors and entries already meet the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Garfield County Senior Programs Director Judy Martin has envisioned classes for exercise, continuing education and book clubs at the new center. A planning committee, working with Health and Human Services, will consider what kind of remodeling or repair the building might need.

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ore than a few of Janelle Forbes’ clients have broken into tears or laughter on the massage table.

Forbes owns Cardiff Therapy in Glenwood Springs and the business has been open for eight years. But recently, she has learned some techniques that open a new bag of tricks and new possibilities for her clients.

In massage, emotional release occurs because tissues have memory. Feelings can be stored in tissue. The term “muscle memory” is used by athletes and dancers who rehearse movement; the phrase refers to the fact that the body remembers actions. You’re probably less familiar with the idea that the body remembers feelings. But consider this: emotional stress creates physical tension. The phrase “pain in the neck” refers to the way that irritation results in physical stress.

Usually the cross-traffic between emotions and bodily sensations is fleeting, but not always, because stress can be stored; just remembering how you felt before giving a speech will probably call up renewed anxiety and butterflies in the stomach.

Forbes, whose background is medical massage, comments, “Life creates all kinds of different emotional responses. When I’m working with clients, we are having a non-verbal conversation. I extemporize and draw on many different things to find what each client requires.

There are so many variables that play into creating change in bodies; there’s the emotional and the physical muscle memory. What’s really fun is finding the sweet spot where the emotional and physical meet. More than crying or laughing, clients go into ‘ahas’ on the table as the physical release unlocks emotions and memories that have been buried.”

From her practice, Forbes knows that addressing physical discomfort can often lead to opportunities for change in other areas of life.

So around the holidays, she applied that insight to her business. “On a personal level, I've used the idea of being ‘comfortable’ to limit

almost every area of my life. If I'm uncomfortable, I must be out of control and that must be bad, right?”

“I decided that I would venture into being uncomfortable by learning a whole new treatment approach and set some ambitious targets for myself and my business,” she says.

Wanting more tools to address soft tissue, Forbes found a set of techniques called the Access Bars®; it defines 32 points on the head.

She explains that when gently touched, these points can “open one up to greater receiving and allowance in their body and their life.

By holding these points, all of the thoughts, feeling, and emotions quiet and a calmness in the body and mind is created. In this space of allowance, change can occur with total ease.”

“I use a variety of techniques, and this one happens to create dynamic shift in a short period of time, so it’s a great compliment to traditional soft tissue work,” she says. “The really cool thing about the Bars® is that it’s so dynamic and potent that most people actually feel the energy moving. Some people zonk out and snore. They know that they’re snoring, but they don’t care because you can just be—without chatter and torment and worry.”

On a return visit after experiencing Bars®, one client suggested to Forbes, "Maybe we can do that head thing again where you touch my head and my worries melt away?"

Forbers observes, “Sometimes, massage is viewed as a bandage.

It’s a means to be able to stand the pain but this can allow us to actually change it. If we are able to clear our conclusions—conclusions that say ‘this is what this injury is and this is how it limits me and this is as good as it’s going to get’—you can overcome those limits.”

“Staying comfortable and stuck is so last year! Here's to change, choice and the evolution of you, of me, of our world.”

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IRON steel Artisty of Joe Burleigh

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f you have driven around Glenwood Springs or Carbondale, you’ve seen Joe Burleigh’s work. His stringed and musical sculpture Logarhythm sits along Carbondale’s Main Street and his Iron Crystal Cubic—a loose interpretation of the crystal matrix of iron atoms at room temperature—was installed in the summer 2014 in a roundabout in west Glenwood Springs.

Joe Burleigh’s palette is steel and his paintbrush is a fiery gas forge. In addition to outdoor sculptures displayed in Grand Junction, Colorado; Sheridan, Wyoming; Chevy Chase Maryland; and Morristown, New Jersey, Burleigh creates handcrafted metal works that range from custom furniture to architectural elements. Roaring Fork Lifestyle recently encouraged Burleigh, who speaks softly but carries a big hammer, to talk about his work.

"Logarhythm", on Main Street in Carbondale, invites musical play.

Joe Burleigh with “Songbird” in Broomfield, Colorado.

WHERE DID YOU GROW UP AND WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR ARTISTIC TRAINING?

I’m a Colorado native, raised in Grand Junction. I have a Bachelors of Arts in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado, Boulder. I have lived in the Roaring Fork Valley for the past 30 years. I have raised my two children here with my wife Debra.

WHERE DO YOU DO YOUR WORK?

For the past 20 years, I have run my own business at the Roaring Forge L.L.C., a Blacksmiths Cooperative in Carbondale. I specialize in home furnishing, lighting, decorative and architectural metals for the construction and design trades. I also create public sculpture.

HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE YOUR SCULPTURE?

Most of it is kinetic or interactive in some way. My ambition is to be as proficient a craftsman as I can, with my favorite material being steel. I want to make durable, unique and attractive objects that appeal to people of all ages, and then monetize them.

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LOGARYTHM INVITES MUSICAL PLAY. YOU INSTALLED A TOWERING METAL CELLO IN BROOMFIELD, AND YOU HAVE SCULPTED METAL VIOLINS. DO YOU HAVE MUSICAL BACKGROUND?

My mother made me take piano in first grade; in second grade I switched to clarinet. Finally, in third grade, I tried the drums. That was the end of my musical training. But I love music and you can frequently find me at Steve’s Guitars in Carbondale.

I thought it would be fun to make a stand-up bass out of metal, more as sculpture than as an actual musical instrument. That turned out pretty well so I made

another. Then I decided to copy an old violin of my sister’s. After that, my niece thought it would be a good idea to make a miniature violin.

With Logarythm, I wanted to go big and get as low a tone as I could.

Some day, we should put some strings on When the Levy Breaks, the big wave sculpture in downtown Carbondale. That would sound fantastic.

YOU HAVE FORGED FAUX SWORD BLADES. WHAT WERE THOSE FOR?

The faux swords are for kids. I haven't met a kid yet who doesn't want a sword, and those I make are ceremonial and pretty harmless!

They are made of light-gauge square tubing and you can't really put a sharp edge on them.

"Saturn & Titus" in Sheridan, Wyoming.

WHAT INSPIRES YOU?

I get a lot of my inspiration from nature and I love working with simple geometry like the platonic shapes. But probably my biggest inspiration is humanity. There is so much wonderful art in the world!

Art being made now and art from thousands of years past. In my opinion, craft is art too. Everything is art, and then you die.

WHERE CAN PEOPLE SEE YOUR ART? I’m entering a piece in this year’s Carbondale Art aRound Town show and possibly Grand Junction’s Art on the Corner show.

Burleigh’s work can also be seen on his website: JoeBurleigh.com.

Most of it is kinetic or interactive in some way.

My ambition is to be as proficient a craftsman as I can, with my favorite material being steel. I want to make durable, unique and attractive objects that appeal to people of all ages.

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“Angels on Paws”

Bring Joy to Hospital Patients Partners Heeling r. d Tucke Fina an

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ello little buddy,” a Calaway-Young Cancer Center patient said as six-year-old Chauncey strode into her room. “I am so happy you came to visit me. What kind of dog are you?”

“He’s a cockachon,” replied Jacquie Tannenbaum, Chauncey’s owner and handler. “Part cocker spaniel, part bichon. That’s what his DNA test told me, but there’s probably something else in there too. Who knows?”

With his fluffy coat of curls and permanent grin, one might begin to wonder if Chauncey is also perhaps part Muppet.

“Everyone always asks me what his breed mix is,” Tannenbaum laughed. “But there’s no way of knowing precisely what he is. He’s a rescue dog. Besides, his breed mix doesn’t matter—it’s more important that he has a big heart and knows how to use it.”

For the past year, Chauncey has indeed been putting his big heart to good use as a card-carrying member of Heeling Partners of the Roaring Fork Valley. About once a month, he visits community members who have a special need for the boundless love of a canine.

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Glenwood Springs,” said Tannenbaum, who currently serves as Heeling Partners’ president. “But he also goes to Valley View Hospital to visit patients, staff members or anyone else who walks through the door.”

Co-founded in 2002 by esteemed local dog trainer Laura Van Dyne and Sandy Jaffrey, wife of oncologist Dr. Ira Jaffrey, Heeling Partners visits a variety of locations from Basalt to Glenwood.

Although the group started as a small initiative at Valley View nearly 14 years ago, it has grown to include an all-volunteer crew of about 20 members and eight certified dog teams.

“Our dog-human teams earn therapy certification together,” Tannenbaum noted. Each team consists of a dog and its owner, who must attend testing sessions together to determine if both are a good fit for Heeling Partners. “Testing involves a hybrid of obedience, behavior and handling in clinical situations. Not every dog is cut out for this kind of work, and not every person is either,” she said, adding that “the dogs must be naturally calm, have a sense of empathy and their owners must know proper handling protocol.”

Dogs are first evaluated locally by trainer Terena Thomas and then certified through an umbrella organization called the Alliance of Therapy Dogs based out of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Once a dog and its handler are certified, they begin volunteering right away. Heeling Partners teams make visits not only to Chauncey’s favorite spots of Valley View Hospital and Grace Healthcare, but also to Heritage Park Care Center in Carbondale. Additionally, Heeling Partners teams visit Glenwood Elementary school and the libraries in Glenwood, Carbondale and Basalt to participate in a special reading program called Paws to Read.

“Some of our dogs just really love being with kids, so we usually send them to the schools and libraries,” Tannenbaum said. “They work with children who need a little help practicing reading. The dogs are not judgmental—so the kids feel free to read as well as they can, make mistakes and start over if they need to.”

Although Heeling Partners has extended its reach to schools, libraries and local nursing homes, the heart of the organization has remained with Valley View, where it started out over a decade ago. Once per week on Tuesdays or Thursdays, at least one therapy team visits the hospital. “The hospital’s program is called Angels with Paws and it’s part of the Plane Tree Initiative, or patient-focused care,” Tannenbaum noted. “Our dogs typically visit Acute Care, but we have also been visiting the Cancer Center for about a year now.”

A Heeling Partners team spends approximately five minutes with each patient during a typical hospital visit.

Even in that small amount of time, Tannenbaum said she witnesses something extraordinary occur when a dog walks into the room of an individual undergoing treatment or recovering from illness or surgery.

“For that five minutes, the animal just takes the patient out of themselves. They don’t ever talk about what is ailing them—they usually just want to talk about their own dogs. Chauncey will visit a room and it will remind the patient of the love they have for their own dog at home, or a dog they used to have,” she said. “For a moment,

Chauncey gives them an escape from all the fear and the stress of their condition. You can just see it—it’s incredible.”

On his recent morning visit to the Cancer Center, Chauncey made a little magic happen wherever he went. Trotting contentedly down the hallways, his white coat bouncing with each step, Chauncey attracted admirers like bees to honey. Doctors, staff members, patients and visitors swarmed to greet him, scratch his ears and chuckle at his ever-present smile.

“Look at that grin,” an employee said, patting Chauncey’s head.

“You have made my whole morning better.”

Chauncey spends a great deal of his time visiting the hospital’s patients, but Tannenbaum has observed his calming effect on staff members as well. “Little five-minute ‘happy breaks’ are what I call them,” Tannenbaum said. “Heeling Partners first began coming to the hospital to visit patients, but we quickly found that the employees need a break from all the stress, too. Chauncey has the ability to make them smile for the few minutes when he comes to visit.”

In a place like Valley View, where members of the community must face difficult situations every day, Chauncey and the seven other Heeling Partners therapy dogs are able to bring a little sunshine—and with that sunshine, a respite from emotional and physical pain.

As he rounded a corner near the chemotherapy wing, a nurse’s face lit up.

“Chauncey’s here,” she said, greeting him like an old friend.

“What can I say?” Tannenbaum laughed. “He’s got a following.”

To learn more about Heeling Partners and how to get involved, visit HeelingPartners.com.

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could have never predicted how much interest my August Roaring Fork Lifestyle article on the book How to Raise on Adult would generate. For weeks following the magazine article’s release, friends and even strangers would engage me around town or email me to say that they, too, had found the book’s ideas fascinating.

The Basalt library invited me to serve on a panel with local therapist Kathy Hegburg and Peter Mueller, principal of Basalt High School. The Carbondale Community School invited me to lead a parent discussion on the book. This spring, Ross Montessori plans to have me lead yet another discussion on a parent education. Clearly, I was not the only one for whom the ideas in the book resonated.

Interestingly, each local discussion about the book has evolved into the challenging question of how to parent through the era of social media. The mainstream media fuels our fear of parenting in the digital age. Just recently, for example, parents have been shaken by the story of a 13-year-old girl who met her college-aged murderers through the popular teen messaging app “Kik”.

In the context of social media, how does one protect a child, while allowing him or her the independence to learn from mistakes? Local parents self-professed ignorance on the topic and yearned for guidance on how to regulate their child’s online activity.

Local discussions around How to Raise an Adult have been powerful. As a parent and a college adviser of high school students, I had devoured every word of the book, written a review about it and was excited to discuss it. The notion that the way our generation takes care of its children could actually turn them into depressed adults who lack resiliency disturbed me.

The book’s author, former Stanford Dean of Students Julia Lythcott Haims, had noticed that, each year, more and more Stanford students were incapable of advocating for and taking care of themselves following scripted and over-scheduled childhoods full of AP tests and activities. They were ineffectual adults, unable to hear their own voices in their heads or to persevere through hardship and the unknowns of life.

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The author reached out to deans at other colleges—colleges at all levels of academic rigor—to discover that increasingly depressed students existed on their campuses as well. Lythcott Haims sought to illuminate a societal problem. She wrote this powerful book to help us all parent more effectively.

Up and down the Roaring Fork Valley, dozens of parents, grandparents, educators, and therapists joined me to discuss the book’s themes. Most parents agreed that the fast-paced lives their children lead were exhausting for not only the children, but for them, too.

Local psychologist Kathy Hegburg commented, “In all of my years of therapy, I have never seen so many stressed out and depressed children. Children and their parents are struggling today.”

The themes of the book seem to resonate even in our bucolic Roaring Fork Valley.

At the Carbondale Community School, parent Liz Penzel commented that “there are many extreme examples and the media does a lot of fear mongering" but she cautioned, "We can’t let social norming drive our behaviors.” Social norming—which occurs when individuals incorrectly believe that the attitudes or behaviors of others are different from their own, when in reality they are similar—can lead to fearing monsters that may not really exist in the places or proportions we imagine. Penzel observed, “We have to parent through social media challenges just like every other challenge, discussing these issues with our kids and educating ourselves and our children about risks. We have to guide them through this world, and not shield them from it.”

For parents, the challenge remains how to better educate ourselves about the social media world. There’s much to learn, and reason for concern. The app Ask.fm is rated for ages 13 and over, but some kids have used it for hurtful cyber-bullying that has been linked to suicides, including a 12-year-old in Florida. Twenty-somethings use Tinder to hook up for one night stands, but the app’s privacy policy allows teens as young as 13 to register. There are even “jailbreaker” apps that enable kids to get around age limits that parents place on kids’ phones and mobile devices.

Parent Diana Desala Lane, who had been frustrated in trying to find materials to help her learn more about parenting through social media,

offered a useful tip. “The PARENTS SEEKING INFORMATION best resource I have found is AND HELPFUL TIPS MAY VISIT CommonSenseMedia.org.

THESE RESOURCES. They wrapped up an extensive study that is very • NPR’s Diane Rehm discussing educational.” the Common Sense Media report (aired Nov. 5, 2015) The landmark Common TheDianeRehmShow.org Sense Media report was also discussed by National • CommonSenseMedia.org Public Radio (NPR) com• The Center for Media and Child mentator Diane Rehm last Health: CMCH.tv fall. Parents interested in • Five dangers of social media to the study can still listen to discuss with your children: Care.com the episode online.

My cousin, Dr. Michael • Family Education website.

Safety Beyond Facebook: 12 Rich, founder and direcSocial Media Apps Every Parent tor of the Center for Should Know About Fun. Media and Child Health FamilyEducation.com at Harvard, a featured expert on the NPR show, commented, “For social and emotional development, the most powerful learning tool and brain-building tool is human connection, and we cannot forget that… We have traded away connectedness for connectivity.” He expressed frustration at our government for its lack of willingness to fund more research on the impact of media on youth.

Clearly the challenge of parenting through the digital age is our generation’s biggest hurdle.

Carolyn Watt Williams helps students find and apply to colleges through her private practice, CarolynWilliamsCollegeConsulting.com.

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Health Impacts of Sleep Deprivation Experts believe that sleep deprivation played a role in the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear meltdowns and the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447, which killed all 228 people aboard.

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hy is sleep important to you? An estimated 35 percent of U.S. adults report less than seven hours of sleep during a typical 24-hour period.

Sleepiness resulting from insufficient sleep, irregular sleep schedules or poor quality sleep is a cause of motor vehicle crashes, occupational errors with hazardous outcomes and difficulty performing daily tasks.

Sleep and wakefulness disorders affect an estimated 15 to 20 percent of U.S. adults who are more likely to suffer from chronic disorders including depression, substance abuse, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke and allcause mortality. Resilience to stress, emotional regulation and inter-personal relationships are impaired by sleep deficiency.

Recent findings suggest that investing in sleep contributes to maintaining brain health, and ultimately, to protecting the cognitive functions necessary for aging-in-place. Recognizing and addressing sleep health issues presents opportunities for enhancing public health and improving the well-being of all people.

The societal and health consequences of insufficient sleep were explored in a 2014 TV documentary entitled Sleepless in America produced by the National Geographic Channel in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The 90-minute video, which can be seen on YouTube, explains how research is changing our perception of sleep, sleepiness and its importance to health.

The idea of “sleep” as a period when the brain simply shuts down has been replaced by an increasingly sophisticated understanding of how the rhythm of sleep and wakefulness is necessary for the biological function of every organ. Not only does this daily “circadian” rhythm play an important role in learning and the filtering of memories in the brain, but it also serves to regulate the energy level of most all cells. Shortages of cellular energy eventually wear down natural defenses through oxidative stress and abnormalities in protein processing increasing the risk of disease. A NIH-funded study helped show that during sleep, a byproduct known as amyloid beta is cleared from the brain at a faster rate than when a person is awake. Amyloid beta has been connected to Alzheimer’s disease.

What all of this adds up to is the idea that sleep should be considered just as important as eating right and getting enough exercise.

Adults should aim for seven to eight hours of sleep, while teens need up to nine hours a night. But getting good sleep goes beyond being in bed for a set number of hours. The quality and timing of sleep are two other important factors for getting proper rest each night. People who work the night shift may experience problems getting quality sleep.

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found much closer to home. The National Highway Traffic ported crashes directly result from driver fatigue each year.

But it's not just accidents. Over time, your immune, respiratory, digestive and cardiovascular systems can all be impaired by lack of sleep. Multiple medical studies show that sleeplessness results in: •

Premature lines and aging of skin.

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Memory loss and increased risk of Alzheimers.

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Loss of sex drive.

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A tripled risk of catching a cold due to impaired immunity.

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Junk food cravings and weight gain (due to imbalances of leptin and ghrelin the hormones that make us feel full or hungry).

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A 62 percent higher risk of breast cancer.

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A 48 percent higher risk of heart disease.

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A five-fold higher risk of diabetes.

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A five times higher risk of developing depression.

• Bottom line: If you're not getting at least seven hours of sleep each night, you're damaging your health. So please, get your ZZZs. Here are five tips that everyone can use to help improve the quality of their sleep:

• • • • •

Keep your bedroom cool and dark.

Put away/turn off all electronic devices while preparing for bedtime.

Stick to a regular bedtime and wake time every day, even on weekends.

Stop drinking caffeine by the early afternoon and avoid large late-night meals.

Skip the late-afternoon nap, as it can make it harder to sleep at bedtime.

Michael Twery PhD is director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Reprint courtesy of NIH. Find the results of sleep-related research projects on the NIH Sleepless in America webpage.

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Tús Nua belly dancers: Top row: Sara h Brotherson, Ginger Hultquist, Megan Kalthoff, Denise Hayes. Front row: Heather Wilkinson , Skye Sieb er, Sue Bilstad.

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oaring Fork Lifestyle’s editor, Nicolette Toussaint, who admits that she’s a serial gym dropout, asked this reporter to find half a dozen indoor workouts she “might actually enjoy and stick to.”

It’s not that Toussaint is sedentary. She teaches figure skating, skis black diamond runs and was spotted doing a duet with a belly dancer at this magazine's birthday party! Figuring that she likes to dance, this

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reporter found six local dance workouts that add up to the most fun you can have with your clothes (mostly) on.

1) TRIBAL BELLY DANCING IN GLENWOOD

Belly dance comes in multiple flavors: Egyptian, Morroccan, Gypsy and Tribal Fusion, among others. It can incorporate moves from Cabaret belly dance, flamenco and other folkloric dances. Joy White, who

teaches belly dancing at the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts, says, “You can feel controlled, grounded, accepting of yourself, edgy, youthful, slightly tantalizing and downright sparkly dabbled in jewels and feathers. Belly dance uses muscles you didn't even know you had. Throw in creativity and fun beats, and what's not to adore about belly dancing?”

Sarah Brotherson, who has studied and performed professionally with renowned joyous demo Betty Hoops in a Mountain Fair.

nstration at

belly dancer Ayla, currently offers classes in the Tribal Fusion style in Glenwood Springs.

A ten-week session is $150 and five students are needed to form a class. For details, see the Tús Nua Belly Dance page on Facebook or contact Brotherson: 970.404.0465 or sarahbrotherson@hotmail.com.

2) HULA HOOP WORKOUT

Readers may have seen “Betty Hoops” teaching red-robed Tibetan monks to hula hoop during Carbondale’s last Mountain Fair. Betty Shurin—aka Betty Hoops—is a Guinness Book World record holder for hula hooping while running half marathons.

Betty teaches hoopers of all ages and abilities. She says that “anatomy is the key to re-training the body to move from the core, creating centeredness, balance and a strong sense of self. My passion is empower people to become their own healers by moving from the inside out.”

Shurin has designed a collapsible flexy hoop that is specially weighted for adults.

(Hoops under one pound won’t stay up while

those over two pounds can pinch nerves, injure knees or cause bruises.) Betty, who lives in Basalt, teaches every Wednesday at Shakti Shala in Aspen, but midvalley students can buy hoops and $14 instructional DVDs at BettyHoops.com. Aspiring hoopers can even schedule personalized lessons by Skype or Facetime.

3) ZUMBA FOR FEELING GOOD ALL OVER

An intense aerobic workout that pairs footwork with sexy Latin American dance moves, Zumba is performed to flamenco, salsa, Cuban, calypso and African music.

“It’s all about joy—being happy with who you are and sharing that happiness,” says Andrea Orrego, who teaches Zumba at Burn Fitness. “It's about feeling sexy and embracing your body because it's only when you start liking yourself that you become able to feel and look better.”

Orrego, who was new to the valley when she took her first class, says she soon became “part of a community of supporting friends who got together to have fun and better

Zumba - a dance workout to flam enco, salsa , Cuban, calypso and African music.

themselves in the process.” She enjoyed it so much she soon got certified to teach.

Zumba classes are held all over the Roaring Fork Valley, including at Burn in Basalt, at Basalt Fitness, at Basalt Middle School, at Colorado Mountain College, at Carbondale’s Third Street Center and at Glenwood Springs Community Center.

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a practice . enjoying a Capoeir

Everson, who studied with aerial silks pioneer Rebecca Leech at Sky Gym in Sandy Spring, Georgia, notes, “It’s a circus art form. It was kept under wraps for a long time because performers wanted to impress audiences and didn’t want people to know that they actually could do it themselves.”

Noting that Sky Gym teaches disabled dancers, and even students missing limbs, Leech adds, “Truthfully, anyone can learn it.”

Kids must be at least seven to participate, and Everson’s oldest student is 62.

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6) BOOTY BARRE IN BASALT

4) CAPOEIRA ANGOLA IN CARBONDALE

Originating in 16th century Brazil, Capoeira is part martial art, part game and part ritual. Created by slaves who were barred from celebrating their culture and from practicing martial arts, it emerged as a way to evade those prohibitions. Classes usually include both movement and instruction on Capoeira instruments: a musical bow called the berimbau, a tamborine, a tall “atabaque” drum, an “agogo” bell and a “reco-reco” rattle.

Capoeira student Zuleika Pevec comments, “It puts me in a good mood. It makes me work hard, but it’s fun.” Her dance partner, fellow student Tanelle Lavender, who is getting back in shape after having a baby, likes Capoeira because “it combines music and dancing.”

Amanda Trakas and Michael Lintner teach Capoeira both at the Launchpad and at Third Street Center. For details, email AngolaRFV@gmail.com.

5) SOARING ON THE CIRCUS SILKS

“I love that the silks bring you back to those joyful playground feelings we had as kids. Lots of adults have forgotten that exercise can be fun,” says silks instructor Stacy Everson. “You don’t need to feel like there’s a drill sergeant standing over you to get a good workout.”

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Standing on the left leg before a ballet barre, holding cantaloupe-sized ball behind the right knee and then raising it behind the back with leg-lifts, one soon decides that the "Burn" studio is correctly named.

Energetic owner and trainer Denise Latousek teaches eight Booty Barre® classes a week, and early on a Monday morning, nine students of all ages and ability levels have turned up for an hour-long session.

Because this workout combines ballet's

fluidity with yoga's flexibility and the core strengthening of Pilates, Booty Barre is favored by those with dance backgrounds.

Natalie Carricarte of Basalt has studied both ballet and jazz, and says, "This builds those same muscles. It builds strength while it stretches and elongates the muscles. And it's fun; the hour just flies by."

Fellow student Becky Dombrowksi chimes in, saying, "I love it because Denise is so full of energy." Carriacarte agrees, saying, "The whole studio is filled with her energy, and it gives the class such a supportive spirit."

Boot y Barre class at Burn Fitness

in Basalt.

Sopris Soarers Instructor Stacy Ever son coaches Carrie Vickers in some of the finer points of hanging on the silks .

“I love that the silks bring you back to those joyful playground feelings we had as kids. Lots of adults have forgotten that exercise can be fun.”

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Author Geneviève Joëlle Villamizar

TAPPING INTO THE “LIFE ENERGY” OF

QIGONG

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n a road trip last autumn, I watched my friend Steven move through his bodywork each morning. Used to pushing my own to its physical limits, I was surprised to see this muscular man so gentle in his body. Despite his movement, a stillness filled the hotel room. After meditation one morning, he must have noted my fascination. “Do you want to play?” he invited.

We stood relaxed, feet shoulder-width apart, taking deep belly breaths to settle into the body. We then rubbed our hands together briskly, like when you’re freezing, to warm them up.

“Now drop your hands to your sides and relax.”

I did so. My arms pulsed. My hands tingled intensely. “Do you feel it?” Steven asked. “That’s your chi.”

“Now. Gently, slowly, palms down, raise your hands.” I did so, following his lead.

“Palms facing each other, slowly move your hands inward, until you feel a resistance, energy, pushing outward.”

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suddenly…there. Within moments, I found myself giggling in wonder as I massaged an “energy ball” between my open hands.

I could truly feel it squish as I moved in.

Spreading my hands slowly outward, I could feel them push up against energy as well. “Just play with that,” he encouraged. I moved my hands all around the ball, feeling it, alive, in space.

I was awestruck. In a lifetime of hearing about all this “energy” stuff, here it was, within my grasp—literally. After a minute or so, he had us relax our hands downward.

“Now take the fingers of one hand and lightly rub the back of your wrist. And the other hand.” Doing so, I found my hands to be quite warm; the gesture moved moisture on my skin with a cooling effect.

I was incredibly moved. I carried that morning with me, and after our trip, I Googled “qigong”. Wikipedia explains it most simply: “Qigong…is a holistic system of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing and meditation used for health, spirituality and martial arts training. With

roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy and martial arts, qigong is traditionally viewed as a practice to cultivate and balance qi, translated as "life energy".

Having practiced meditation since my mid twenties—doing it with an ego-infused body sense—I was intrigued to bridge that mind-body gap. I continued to play with my energy ball, making sure it was real, still “there.”

I began to ask around the valley about qigong. A blank. Internet searches got

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me know where. Calling martial arts studios lead to nothing.

Youtube was a confusing morass. Unable to let it go, I finally ordered videos.

When the videos arrived, I was excited to finally be doing actual qigong. As I became familiar with its names and movements, I could begin to close my eyes, staring not at a TV screen, but moving into my own body, flowing within my own movements.

Thinking not of the movements or what was next, I could simply be the movement. I could experience physical sensation and reality inwardly, versus outwardly.

Qigong leads me to an altered state unlike anything I’ve experienced. Running, I would darn near lose my mind with euphoria. Sports and play consumed energy, leaving me ecstatic but whipped. But qigong is gentle. It brings my body to a place where I’m not pushing, demanding or trying…but letting go.

Letting go of thought. Letting go of force. Feeling into my body and losing me, Geneviève. Quixotically, from that place of relaxation, I feel not exhausted, but enlivened. I feel ready.

I wanted more than videos. I knew I needed a community to truly learn. Serendipity has finally led me to a group here in Carbondale.

It’s a closely-knit, inclusive one. Even with a master instructor, the students also teach one another. At any moment, I can look to my new friends to watch how this hand glides or that leg swings. I can ask questions and receive correction.

Qigong seems a metaphor for life. I start with knowing nothing; I can’t intellectualize the learning. The only way I’ll learn is by doing it, experiencing the movements in my body. I feel pleasure in flow, but I am just as at ease with fumbling and recovering. At 44, I’m enchanted with qigong, discovering a new way to “be” in my body, at last bridging the mind-body gap. I look forward to a lifetime of it.

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Healthy Lifestyle Poor mechanics (bad form in American English) leads to more injuries and fitness dropouts than people want to admit. Research indicates that over half of all orthopedic injuries are not caused by accidents, but by repetitive stress. The fact is that our joints have a finite amount of wear-ability, and poor mechanics figure hugely in long-term joint damage.

Good trainers teach proper mechanics, giving you techniques that enable you to actually “train” and not just to “work out”. This is very important. Endless workouts are just work while training for a specific goal offers a positive result—which is what we all want!

Why Work With A Personal Trainer?

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ou need to be physically active to get and stay healthy. Everyone knows that, but getting started can be quite daunting.

Many overworked, stressed-out Americans start a fitness program, do all right for a short time and then drop out. (According to multiple studies in the U.S., Britain and New Zealand, the dropout rate is one third to one half, and about 80 percent of the dropouts occur between January and February.) The reasons? People see no results. Or they sustain an injury.

Injuries and few rewards contribute to negative conditioning about exercise and our bodies. Then we reach for drugs and surgery to fix decades of bad behavior. And then we deal with the side effects of that.

The marketing machine promotes unattainable “Photoshopped” results, adding even more negative conditioning about exercise.

Then add the gamut of weird celebrity diets. Next, add confusing and contradictory advice from various “experts”.

This pattern continues until we give in to more drugs and surgery.

THE AVERAGE PERSON NEEDS HELP TO BREAK THIS CYCLE.

Injuries related to workouts and sports plague both beginners and veterans. Because of our country’s deplorable state of health, the rise in orthopedic injuries and overall sickness, we do need help with exercise. And, if you look at American health statistics, we need it more than anything else.

It’s amazing, but while we’ll hire a plumber to fix a stopped-up toilet, we are too embarrassed to hire a personal trainer to help us take care of the human body, which is arguably a little more complex!

Is it somehow shameful in today’s culture to need help figuring out the workout thing?

People can clearly see the danger in activities like downhill skiing and riding motorcycles, but they tend to forget about the long-term damage caused by exercising improperly, or not at all, or by eating poorly.

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TRAINERS SHOULD TEACH PROPER MECHANICS

Do you remember learning proper exercise mechanics in school?

Of course you don’t; you weren’t taught exercise mechanics in school. You were either good at your brief bouts of PE or not. Kids who were not so good in PE received a lot of negative reinforcement about many things physical. Combine that disincentive with poor nutrition and endless drug therapy, and you have a country in the poor physical state we currently see.

Moving to a state of good health takes know-how, practice, discipline–skills that trainers help you develop.

Because proper mechanics are the same for just about every body and pertain to many different activities, good personal trainers offer many benefits. Trainers keep you safe and effective, in and out of the gym. Modern, professional personal trainers hone their skills in proper mechanics and corrective exercise. (Or at least they should. Any over-the-weekend-certified trainer wearing a neon-pink tank top can scream at you to do more reps, so check on what those credentials mean.)

Most of the trillion-dollar bill for medical issues that our country pays could be avoided with proper nutrition and exercise.

Ask any physician.

BUT PERSONAL TRAINERS ARE EXPENSIVE…

When I hear that compliant, I chuckle, watching the endless stream of $70k-plus price-tagged vehicles, loaded with high-end skis and bikes, that pass by as I’m on my way to the gym. Not to mention all the vehicles I see parked at fancy restaurants and bars.

Money is a poor objection to hiring a trainer, especially in this valley.

My advice is to assess the results you have gotten for money you have spent on actual health-causing behavior versus the money you spent on health-diminishing behaviors. It just might turn out that finding a trainer would be a bargain.

Head Trainer at Midland Fitness in Glenwood Springs, Steve Wells has more than 25 years of experience as an athletic trainer, a strength and conditioning coach and a personal trainer. For more of his articles, see Midland-Fitness.com.

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March

MARCH 4 SPELLEBRATION 2016 HOTEL COLORADO Spellebration 2016: Passport to Literacy is a lively adult spelling bee benefiting Literacy Outreach and Learning Labs at Colorado Mountain College. Features a large silent auction, costume contest and fund-raising honors. No charge for spectators, although there is an opportunity to contribute to support that spelling teams. Starts at 6 p.m.

MARCH 9 GOOD FIRE, BAD FIRE

MARCH 2 & 3

THIRD STREET CENTER Naturalist Nights presents Jim Genung, Prescribed Fire and Fuels

IS RIVER RESTORATION WORKING IN THE DESERT

Specialist, White River National Forest, giveing a talk on Good

SOUTHWEST?

Fire, Bad Fire and the State of our Landscapes and Communities

THIRD STREET CENTER

Without Fire. Free. Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. at Carbondale’s Third St.

Naturalist Nights: Is River Restoration Working in the Desert

Center. Program repeats at ACES in Aspen on March 10. Info at

Southwest? A talk by Shannon Hatch, Restoration Coordinator,

WildernessWorkshop.org.

Tamarisk Coalition. Free. Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. at Carbondale’s Third St. Center. Program repeats at ACES in Aspen on March 3. Info at

MARCH 11 & 12

WildernessWorkshop.org.

GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK FASHION SHOW

MARCH 4

CARBONDALE RECREATION CENTER The 8th annual fashion show, Transformation, features perfor-

DEFIANCE CHALLENGE

mance art, multimedia, inspiring fashion and a storyline! Local and

SUNLIGHT MOUNTAIN

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In this benefit for the ski patrol, participant teams ski or ride in as

create fashions from recycled

many black diamond and double black diamond runs as possible in

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10 hours. This family-friendly event is open to expert skiers and riders

Tickets are $35 for CCAH mem-

age 6 and up. Fish Fry and silent auction in the evening. For more info

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or to register, see SunlightSkiPatrol.com.

raise money for arts education.

MARCH 4-6 & 10-12 FREUD'S LAST SESSION THUNDER RIVER THEATRE COMPANY

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On the day England enters World War II, legendary psychoanalyst

MARCH 11

Sigmund Freud and famed author C.S. Lewis clash about love, sex,

PHILIP HONE WILLIAMS PAINTINGS

the existence of God and the meaning of life. Freud's Last Session is

THE ART BASE

directed by Wendy Moor and features Bob Moore and Corey Simp-

The Art Base (formerly the Wyly Art Center) opens

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Rocks with Personality: Paintings by Philip Hone

MARCH 4

Williams 5 p.m. Free. The exhibition runs through April 2.

ARTIST-IN-WILDERNESS EXHIBITION

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SOPRIS PARK Join Carbondale Recreation for its Annual Easter Egg Hunt in Sopris

BASALT CHAMBER AFTER HOURS

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ASPEN CLINIC IN BASALT

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Enjoy a splash of wellness, refreshments, healthy appetizers and door

be divided up according to age. Registration for Easter basket raffle

prizes at this fun networking benefit for Basalt Chamber members,

begins at 9. For ages 1-8. Free and open to public.

event hosts and their guests. Hosted by the Aspen Clinic, Health Links, Aspen MMA, Active Life Chiropractic, Core Flex Chiropractic

MARCH 26

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CROWN MOUNTAIN PARK An Easter Egg Hunt will be held at the pavilion at Crown Mountain Park. Get to the park at 9:30 a.m. to sign up for the Easter Basket Raffle. Easter egg hunt for kids ages 11 years and under starts promptly at 10 a.m. For details see CrownMtn.org.

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HOME BUILDERS & REMODELERS 3 G Construction (970) 984-7046

Ace Roofing & Sheetmetal (970) 945-5366 aceroof.co B & H General Contractors (970) 945-0102 bandhgeneralcontractors.com

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Janckila Construction (970) 927-6714 janckilaconstruction.com

Valle Musico (970) 948-7062

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Chamberlains Closets & Cupboards (970) 945-1209

Down Valley Design Center (970) 625-1589

HOME SERVICES

Tom Roach Hardwood Floors (970) 274-0944 tomroachfloors.com

LEGAL

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LUXURY AUTOMOTIVE Audi Glenwood Springs (970) 945-5200 audiglenwoodsprings.com Midvalley Auto Body (970) 366-0793 midvalley-auto-body.com

MEDICAL CLINICS & FACILITIES

Mountain Family Health Centers (970) 945-2840 mountainfamily.org Win Health Institute (970) 279-4099 winhealthinstitute.com

OTHER

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The Fireplace Company (970) 963-3598 thefpco.com The Glass Guru (970) 456-6832 theglassguruofglenwoodsprings.com The Hotel Denver (970) 945-6565 thehoteldenver.com

PET CARE

Alpine Animal Hospital (970) 963-2371 alpinehospital.com Willits Veterinary Hospital (970) 510-5436 willitsvet.com

REAL ESTATE

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RESTAURANTS, FOOD & BEVERAGE Grand Avenue Sweets (970) 230-9542 grandavesweets.com

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Parting Thoughts

IN PRAISE OF

IDLENESS WORDS FLORENCE CAPLOW

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uring the winter holidays, I spent five days alone in an octagonal stone hermitage at St. Benedict’s, a Trappist monastery that sits on nearly 4,000 acres in a snowy bowl surrounded by high ridges above Old Snowmass. It’s the home of Father Thomas Keating, and the monastery maintains a few small hermitages, offered by donation, in the Benedictine spirit of hospitality.

Although I’ve spent a lot of time in silent retreat, in these last few years of preparing to enter Unitarian Universalist ministry, I have been too committed to take time away. And yet, ironically, as a minister, I find that times of idleness and quietness have become even more essential. As I drove the snowy roads to the monastery on Christmas Eve, I wondered, “Will I remember how to just be?

Will I be frantically trying to study something, just out of habit? Will I feel guilty that I am not answering emails?”

As I walked the snowy path to my little hut, rabbits—more on rabbits later—scattered this way and that under the trees. I felt the deep familiarity of entering sacred space, and I felt at home in the silence. For the next five days I drifted, dreamed, sat in meditation, slept, watched the sky, watched snow fall, read poetry, wondered, wandered, breathed.

In the journal I had barely touched for the past year, I found a phrase from a dream: “Everything brimming over with divinity.”

That’s what it was like.

On Christmas Day, it began to snow, and it snowed, and it snowed, all day, all night—that light crystalline snow of western Colorado, like feathers and sugar combined, glittering in the light, everything covered up with snow, mountains hidden. I remembered a story from my Zen teacher Norman Fisher, of wandering in the snow reciting the Heart Sutra, around and around in a sort of joyful delirium.

In the afternoon of Christmas Day, I put on my big winter boots and warm down jacket and headed out in the snow. It seemed like I was the only one there. Kicking my way down through the deep powder, I found the path down to the main retreat house, winding through the scrubby oaks. Halfway down the path, I could just make out the outlines of a bench, completely covered with snow.

Road to Old Snowmass; photo by Florence Caplow.

I unburied an edge of the bench and sat down, the only sound the delicate sound of snowflakes landing on me: my hat, my eyelashes, my jacket, my boots. I was so still for so long that a rabbit—I told you there would be more about rabbits—came right up alongside me, looked at me and hopped way.

The next day was clear, a blindingly blue-sky-and-snow sort of a day. I shoveled my path (greeting the rabbits, of course), helped a monk dig out his plow, and then sat and read and thought and drank tea.

I thought my heart might burst with happiness and gratitude.

That night, as I walked the mile or so down the road through the open fields to the main monastery for vespers, the air was so cold it was nearly frightening, despite my layers of warm clothing and the thermos of tea in my pack. In the dark, the monks sang songs to the Holy Family and to Mary, and afterwards I walked back, only now the full moon had risen, and miles of snowy mountains were illuminated with its brilliance.

It is a privilege to be able to take time out from work and ordinary life to enter into such beauty and solitude. I know that many people’s lives do not have the space and time for such luxury, though I wish such times for us all. And I think, with gratitude, of the generosity of the donors to St. Benedict’s, who made it possible for me to be there, with the rabbits and the snow, my heart full of joy.

May all who need idleness find a way to it.

Florence Caplow is the minister for Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist in Carbondale. She is also an ordained Zen priest, teacher, and writer. Her most recent book is "The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women".

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