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can swords sharpen ploughshares?

July 19, 2010
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       Today my altared space is this ploughshare. I don’t know if this is a legitimate ploughshare, but it’s close. We found it after the fire last spring and it really is used for dragging behind something (horse or tractor) to dig up the ground and get things ready for planting. I think swords could [...]

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teaching kids the fiscally smart way to love money

April 15, 2010
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      There was a time when the love of money meant soaring stock prices and rampant consumerism. Karen Troester is teaching her community that money can make people giddy instead of greedy. She’s organizing a bank of over 130 volunteers to offer financial classes to the public schools of Grand Junction, Colorado.       As a [...]

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capturing the light with peter fay

April 8, 2010
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      I took a trip down the Grand Canyon with photographer Peter Fay. It was like getting to see through a borrowed set of eyes more capable than my own. He taught me to see with more clarity by teaching me to focus.        “The light is spot on,” he’d say, or perhaps he’d comment [...]

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falling into fun

February 25, 2010
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       “Every good party has to have an element of danger,” that’s the philosophy of Chris Brown, owner of Brown Cycles in Grand Junction, Colorado. That’s why he didn’t hesitate when his friend, Nate Wilson, asked him to bring over a truck load of antique bikes to a summer barbeque.           The van doors opened [...]

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imagine a place you belong

February 11, 2010
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       The first time I met Kate Belknap she asked me to close my eyes and imagine skiing in puffy white snow, powder knee-deep, soft and silent. There were forty of us at least, in a classroom, with our eyes closed. It was late October and we were dreaming about skiing before even a snowflake [...]

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parachuting into a new future

February 4, 2010
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       To go from a 6 figure salary and a plush home in an elegant Denver suburb to sleeping on the floor of your in-laws garage in an out of the way town that wouldn’t support a Costco is not the transition every wife dreams of making. But Crystal Morris not only tolerated her husband’s [...]

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is there a new you in your closet?

January 28, 2010
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       Julie Morgenstern helps people find the themes in their life. Once that’s accomplished she helps them shed the stuff that is tying them down.        She has walked this path herself. She had several boxes living under her dining room table that were holding her back, and once she was willing to let them [...]

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tapestries and teens

January 21, 2010
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       “Having a craft in life gives you a place to be,” according to Jane Patrick who is a weaver as well as author and co-owner of Schacht Spindle Company. She feels weaving helps to anchor her in the great continuum of time, connecting her to people who, thousands of years ago, strung threads on [...]

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inhaling pain carves canyons for happiness to fill

January 14, 2010
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       Demi Garner curls herself around her husband, careful about touching his skin which aches with scleroderma. It is not a gentle disease and it has peeled away layers of Tom Garner. What remains now, at the end, is his ability to breathe. Even that must be assisted by a full face mask rather than [...]

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