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Live Music: Olga Kern
We have to break our routine to catch this chance to see Olga Kern play, one night only, on a weeknight. We have four tickets, birthday gifts to Ann from Dad last April. Ann, in continuity with our departure from habit, invites two twin boys we know to come for their first classical concert. This…
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Movie: The River King (2005)
A whodunit suffers at first from over stereotyped characters and some stiff dialogue, but recovers nicely by taking an original turn. The idea that our investigations in the world are inevitably investigations of ourselves is a good one. Referred by Ted
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Poudre Canyon – The Palace
The weather forecasts for the weekend have been dismal, so when the sky is blue this morning I decide to see if we can take advantage of whatever window the weather might leave open for us. Mark and Kate agree to join us. It looks pretty good going up the canyon, though there’s a dusting…
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Book: The Omnivore’s Dilemma / Michael Pollan
This book represents one of two epiphanies I’ve experienced this year. Both involve discovering something I’ve been ignorant of most of my life, but relied on heavily nonetheless. In this case the discovery is an entity crucial to my daily survival – the food chain that sustains me. It’s very revealing of our powers of…
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Movie: Unknown White Male (2005)
A real story of extreme amnesia debunks some of the Hollywood amnesia mythology, leaving the piercing philosophical questions exposed. Our good fortune is that the amnesia struck a financially independent man with a video camera, who previously had a nosey friend with a video camera. So we’re able to see what might happen to a…
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The Palace – Poudre Wall
A bright, warm Fall day introduces Sean, Ann, and I to Mark and Kate, and the Poudre Wall at The Palace. A little later cousin Doug and Liz show up. It’s a great group, reminding me of the many fun group outings I took part in in the Eastern Sierra Nevada with the Ridgecrest social…
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OK, maybe we do need a truck
We have joked that we’ll just pull our fifth wheel behind our subaru if we need to in a pinch. Ok, maybe not.
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Movie: Somersault (2006)
This Australian coming-of-age film follows the struggles of a 16-year-old girl who runs away from home to a small ski town. It does a pretty amazing job of exposing some of the difficulties of establishing relationships as a teenager, and just surviving, that shows how some painful lessons might change a person and yet leave…
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Movie: Eight Below (2006)
You know from the second the soundtrack starts that this is a Disney movie, and as such is going to manipulate you mercilessly. Resistance is futile. Just drink some water beforehand so you don’t get dehydrated by the tear extraction process. Despite my resentment of the emotional manhandling, the movie is redeemed to a large…
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Movie: Off The Map (2003)
A fine expression of the New Mexico hippy mystique. The landscapes are spellbinding, and the characters are duly enchanted by them. Fond sentiments for my broke and happy days in Dixon and Chimayo soon flooded me. Cheers to any of my arroyo copilots from those days who may drop by here and see this! Referred…