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Category: Essays

ESSAY: The Power and Presence of Water in Native American Myth and the Bible

Posted on May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 by Post Contributor

In Hajíínéí the water guardians became angry at the Nílch’i Dine’é and sent a massive flood into the First World to punish them…

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PHOTO ESSAY: Pagosa Celebrates Mardi Gras at Tennyson Event Center

PHOTO ESSAY: Pagosa Celebrates Mardi Gras at Tennyson Event Center

Posted on March 3, 2022March 14, 2022 by Jeff Laydon

The Tennyson Building Event Center is sending out a big “thank you” to all the fun-loving Pagosa people who turned out for their first ever Mardi Gras party…

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ESSAY: The Warrior Woman

ESSAY: The Warrior Woman

Posted on February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 by DC Duncan

There are only 96 beds at the Craig Hospital and patients have to qualify to get in, but Summer was a shoe-in…

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ESSAY: ‘Time’ vs. Pagosa Springs High School Girls’ Swim Team

Posted on February 21, 2022March 14, 2022 by Post Contributor

In October, both the coaches and the athletic director of the school district were scrambling to find a pool, in order to save yet another season for this newly added sport…

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ESSAY: The Legacy of John Porter

Posted on February 3, 2022March 21, 2022 by DC Duncan

Besides being an avid sailor, a rough-and-tumble rugby player, an actor, producer, entrepreneur, expert skier, bon vivant and charming man-about-town, John was a dedicated and loving husband…

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POEM: Moonlit World

Posted on January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 by DC Duncan

When my woman talks it’s a symphony… Like a nightingale’s song she sings to me…

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HMPRESENTLY: In Theory… and The Real Thing

Posted on December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 by Harvey Radin

That same morning, also very early, I happened to be out on the road, experiencing in real time what the psychologist had been talking about…

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Pearl Harbor Day

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Pearl Harbor Day

Posted on December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 by Gary Beatty

They discussed the well-known story about the radar, and Dad got silent. One of the others said, “Larry, you’re a Pearl Harbor survivor. What do you think?”

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HMPRESENTLY: Adventuring Across the Rubicon

Posted on December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 by Harvey Radin

If you could get peoples’ synapses to wrap around some nifty new service, or product, or, perhaps, a company’s good deeds, that was some seriously satisfying adventuring…

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ESSAY: Inmates. Growing Sagebrush.

Posted on December 1, 2021December 1, 2021 by Post Contributor

Levi says he’s never grown a plant from seed and found the experience therapeutic. “It’s nice to see something grow from nothing…”

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A Standing Ovation for a Grand Dame

A Standing Ovation for a Grand Dame

Posted on November 25, 2021November 25, 2021 by DC Duncan

The couple settled in the charming borough of Beaver, PA, on the banks of the magnificent Ohio River…

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HMPRESENTLY: Conversing in a Cockamamie State of Polarization

Posted on November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 by Post Contributor

They’re like pixie dust, in a way… those three related words, all suggesting thoughtful, mutual, even casual talk among folks…

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ESSAY: What’s Left of My Home Has Me Rethinking What I Teach, and How

Posted on November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 by Post Contributor

This ‘First Person’ essay by Christie Nold appeared on Chalkbeat.org on November 17, 2021. What’s left of my home has me rethinking what I teach, READ MORE

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Medical Civic Action Project in Nakon Phanom, 1973

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Medical Civic Action Project in Nakon Phanom, 1973

Posted on November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 by Gary Beatty

Our focus was twofold. First to provide primary care to the children. Second came pregnant women. Treatment for other adults was usually limited to dental care….

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HMPRESENTLY: Crazy Woo-Woo, and Common Threads

Posted on November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 by Harvey Radin

I have no idea why certain words come to me, usually between three and four in the morning. A friend of ours who’s studied strange phenomena, says it’s ‘woo-woo’…

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HMPRESENTLY: One Screwy Thing After Another

Posted on October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 by Harvey Radin

I started writing this column, featuring ‘screwy,’ late Wednesday, with something about reality shows in the first draft…

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ESSAY: Learning a New Language is Exhausting

Posted on October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 by Post Contributor

They had not yet learned to speak English, making it difficult to learn much in any of their classes…

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HMPRESENTLY: Amusingly Whacky TV … and Mightier Pens

Posted on October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 by Harvey Radin

I was talked into binge-watching a series of shows on cable TV, featuring totally dysfunctional — totally nuts — characters…

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