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PEAK TO PEAK - “We’re here to work on our communication,” Sue said as she and her husband sat down. “I don’t think we know how to fight.”  “Know how to fight?” said her husband Eric. “I’m sick of fighting! I want to be able to communicate...

Bursting with energy, I craved a challenging hike, but it was snowing and a foot of accumulation was expected. I opted instead for a spin on my bike. No music played gently in the background this time. I wanted to feel my heart rate increase and...

Nederland February Night Skies Frank Sanders Tungsten Valley Last month we used Mars’ currently backward (retrograde) motion, in Gemini, to pose the question of why planets sometimes go in reverse across the sky. This month, we interview our...

Some Words for the Week

I often write about how humans are supposed to be the shepherds of nature how our place in the world was to tend to the forests was to tend the animals was to help the cycle of coexistence not to break it but I realize now the limit of my...

Some Words for the Week

waiting for a light to change I watch the snow melt into long drops of water on the windshield of my truck it’s so cold today that I can feel my nostrils freezing as I step outside but the sun still shines and turns ice to water turns snow to...

Some Words for the Week

we are working on a house where a fire came through less than five years ago I remember right after the thing was contained driving through these woods it looked like a bomb went off a metal garage had melted into a puddle which shone dully in the...

Life in Nature: Winter living

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK - Winter in the mountains is no joke, at least for us humans.  As I write this article, the snow is falling along with the temperatures, and we are about to take our first dip into the negatives for 2025. This...

Mountain Spirit Astrology Aquarius

The Sun in Aquarius is the visionary who assists us in designing our future. This sign is the new power in the stars, because Pluto has entered Aquarius for a 20 year stay. In order to understand the bearer of electrical energy better, let us...

Regardless of how I feel about someone, I would never intentionally hurt them. It’s not my nature. I’m an empath filled with compassion and patience. I accept everyone as they are, without judgment, even if I’m not given the same...

NEDERLAND - The bedrock that underlies Nederland contains evidence of ancient submarine hot springs, known as black smokers, 1.7-2.2 billion years ago. During the earliest beginnings of the earth, the first strains of bacteria flourished around...

Some Words for the Week

I go to the grocery store and Los Angeles is on fire and so is the Middle East but in a different way and somebody behind me in line says it’s the driest January in one hundred years and I buy some apple sauce and some cough syrup and some sliced...

Life in nature: Headbutt science

WATERTON CANYON - The natural world is the epitome of efficiency, and the study thereof is the basis for all advances in technology throughout the entire span of human history.  Every “leap forward,” from the use of prehistoric tools all...

Some Words for the Week

everything feels different  on the last day of the year  it’s a small sort of death  the last sandwich for lunch  the last gallon of gas  the last long drive home  in after work traffic  the last credit...

As I contemplated how I should continue to discover Colorado in 2025, I decided to trudge around the property, admiring the freshly fallen snow, glistening in the sunshine. The wind made me grateful for the heavy coat I wore. I climbed above the...

Some Words for the Week

what is it about the ocean that we find so captivating is it that most of us do not get to see it often that it is a trek to get there and thus special because of its novelty or perhaps instead there is something instinctual in us because so long...

Nederland January Night Skies

TUNGSTEN VALLEY - Planets wander nightly among the stars. Mostly, they shift in the same yearly direction as the sun, west to east (called prograde). (The sun flies east to west daily, but its yearly motion shifts opposite to that, one degree per...

Life in Nature: Farewell 2024!

NEDERLAND - Here we are, wrapping up another year in our tucked-away little gem on the edge of the wilderness! As I write, the sounds of Christmas music mingle with the crinkle of wrapping paper and stretching of tape for presents. By the time of...

Some Words for the Week

I guess I’m lucky today in that I’ve watched the sunrise and sunset and they were both pink and framed by mountains and plains grass and puddles of snowmelt which themselves cause the color of the sky turning pink and blue and white it really...

Diversions: I have this friend…

PEAK TO PEAK - I have this friend. He was in my law school class. In the Spring of 1983, he had four wisdom teeth coming in. At first, it was a mild annoyance. My friend ignored the problem and told me, “I just want to graduate and pass the bar,...

Turning frustration to nostalgia

Lyons Is anyone else frustrated with life? I sigh as I come to the end of nearly seven weeks of dealing with injuries and illnesses. I tried everything to heal, to no avail. My frustration turned to feelings of infuriation with every failure. I...

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