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OPTIONS Storytime is back, sign up kids for Mini Med School and learn Latin and Caribbean history and dances in April By Kara Bauman Redstone Review LYONS – Your Lyons Community Library is excited to announce the return of in-person storytime sessions. Through May 11, Bauman every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. we welcome babies and their caregivers for storytime, and every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. we welcome all ages and their caregivers for a storytime followed by an age-appropriate craft. Masks are recommended for those age two and up. Enroll your local kiddo in our upcoming Mini Med School. Every Thursday afternoon from April 7 through May 5 children will learn the basic principles of the immune system, common pathogens, and how to treat and prevent viral and bacterial illness. Clinical and medical experts Taj Schimek, N.P., and Sarah Moyle, Ph.D., will lead children through activities that illustrate the core medical principles of modern human physiology. Sessions run from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and registration is required. Adult technology instruction returns on March 22 with an hour-long session focusing on using images and tables in Microsoft Word. Another session on March 29 will cover how to use formulas in Microsoft Excel. Both sessions run from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and are led by the library’s Technology Coordinator, Dana Petersen. Bring your own laptop or borrow one of ours. Feel free to email dana@lyonsregionallibrary.com if you have other tech topics you would like to learn about. In January we put out a call for program presenters and many of our talented com-
We are all on overload By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – I have stopped watching the news. It has been a tradition in our house, watching Norah O’Donnell at 8 p.m. But I Jane cannot anymore. I used to read a couple of newspapers online every morning; now I skim past the headlines about the war and pretty much everything else. I just cannot anymore. It is all too much. The invasion of Ukraine put me over the edge, and I do not have the bandwidth. I am noticing that there is less of it on my social media pages, too. I think we are all on overload. I do not need to enumerate the reasons. We all know them and have our own personal ones to add to the pile. My personal additions are three diagnosed mental ill-
The Lyons Community Library will present their Baile Latino series during April. Latin American and Carribbean history, music and dance will be featured. munity members generously answered. We will feature the first few arts and crafts programs for adults in the coming weeks, but we welcome program proposals on a rolling basis. Please consider sharing your expertise in crafting, art, DIY; art or music performance, workshops or discussions; and travel tales and slide shows. April brings a series of Create and Connect classes for adults. On Saturday, April 2 between 10 a.m. and 12 noon, we welcome local florist and herbalist Mary Reaume to learn how to make sustainable and natural wreaths using flowers, herbs, and vines foraged from our own gardens and woods. Supplies are provided, but feel free to bring your own natural treasures. On Saturday, April 9 from 10 a.m. until noon, local artist Cathy Rivers will offer
an Envelope and Cards Collage Art session. Learn to create your own unique envelopes and gift cards to spread joy with friends and loved ones. Choose from an array of recycled paper items for your creation. Supplies are provided, but please consider bringing our own pair of small, pointed scissors and any old maps, calendars, or pretty papers. The library will celebrate Latin American and Caribbean dance, music, history, and cultural connection through our Baile Latino series. Throughout the month of April, we will offer Saturday dance lessons along with featured speakers and a related book discussion. We will cap it off with a dance fiesta on April 30 featuring the Colorado Mambo Orchestra. All events are free thanks to the generous support of the
nesses including PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder. Many of us in the Lyons area still have PTSD from the floods, often unacknowledged and untreated, but you can tell by the response when there is a torrential rain. My PTSD is because of prolonged trauma and neglect as a child, which I have done much to heal, but I cannot remember the last time I was triggered like I am now. So, I have stopped watching and reading the news, and I am practicing heavyduty self-care. I am re-reading my favorite fantasy and childhood books: the Narnia series, the Earthsea series, my versions of escape. I am reaching out to friends, I am telling the truth about how tender and weepy I am right now, how close to the surface my wounds are, because part of my life’s work is to decrease the stigma around mental illness and to empower others to share their vulnerabilities. I have found new healers who specialize in trauma, and I am getting support. I am now at a place where reaching out and sharing works. I have the ego strength for that now, when in the past I could not,
and had to hide away when I was triggered like this, eating yummy food, and watching soothing movies, talking on the phone to my dearest friends and relatives. What works changes over time. What we do to protect, heal, and soothe ourselves when we are overwhelmed should not be harmful to us, but beyond that it is only important that it works, that
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Friends of the Library. The dance series is presented by Brightheart Productions. Space is limited and registration is required. The first program in the Baile Latino series takes place on Thursday, April 7, at 7 p.m. and will feature Carmen Reina-Nelson. Come discover the spiritual traditions brought to the Americas by enslaved Africans. Carmen will describe and demonstrate the music and movement that was the inspiration and origin of the popular dances from Latin America and the Caribbean. Then join us on Saturday, April 9 at 4 p.m. for Latin Dance instruction featuring Elisa Garcia accompanied by Leo MunozCorona and Kyle Perez on live percussion. We invite library patrons of all ages to join us on Wednesday, April 13, at 6:30 p.m. for What Age Can Teach You. Lyons elders will share the wisdom, perspective, and experience gained with age in four TED Talk-style presentations. Kitty and Chuck Keim will describe how exchange students changed their family; Sarah Catchpole will detail the power of her work with restorative justice; Cathy Rivers will recount her experience with the Clarifier Community Mosaic project; and Harry Bieber will impart realworld business leadership. A brief Q&A session will follow. The Lyons Community Library opens Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m. We close at 5 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays; 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays; and 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Our online catalog is available 24/7 at lyons.colibraries.org and we’re always open for digital downloads on both the Libby and CloudLibrary apps. Give us a call at 303-823-5165 or email info@lyonslibrary.com with any questions. Kara Bauman is the Director of the Lyons Community Library and holds an MLIS from the University of Kentucky.
we receive some comfort and feel nourished by it, and that we give ourselves the time and space to do it. I have friends who go to the gym and exhaust themselves when overwhelm hits; I know people who take off to camp or hike in the mountains, alone or with others; people for whom the best thing is to Continue Overload on Page 11
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