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Category: Essays/Poetry

ESSAY: Fortunes and Found Things

ESSAY: Fortunes and Found Things

Posted on November 15, 2022November 15, 2022 by Post Contributor

I am, I realize, that person that the secondfortune.com website is targeted for…

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POEM: My Flashy Star

Posted on October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 by Post Contributor

I bought a flashy star on the installment plan…

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ESSAY: Community Organizing Helps People Thrive in Challenging Times

ESSAY: Community Organizing Helps People Thrive in Challenging Times

Posted on September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 by Post Contributor

When people see how they can create real political changes as part of communities, amazing things can happen…

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HMPRESENTLY: Writing an Ode

Posted on September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 by Harvey Radin

‘Emotion?’ In my ode, there’s some of that. ‘Exaltation?’ I’m sure hoping so, if this ode gets you thinking, some, about freedom and democracy…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

Author Rudolfo Anaya on Banning Books

Posted on September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 by Post Contributor

“We have to live together. Isn’t knowing about each other better than not knowing? Resentment and prejudice come when we don’t know…”

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ESSAY: Bob’s Rhubarb Lounge

Posted on September 12, 2022September 12, 2022 by Robert Koehler

I read half a dozen poems, all of them exploratory in ways I couldn’t imagine, except as poems…

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ESSAY: What I Learned by Being Foster Dad

Posted on August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 by Post Contributor

This essay by Tim Wills appeared on Chalkbeat Colorado on August 29, 2022. The state of Maryland considered Marcus a runaway when he showed up READ MORE

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ESSAY: Come Let Me Love You

ESSAY: Come Let Me Love You

Posted on August 19, 2022September 9, 2022 by DC Duncan

Summer Phillips enjoyed an extraordinary, carefree life. She was Pagosa’s premier goldsmith, a masterful artist with a huge clientele…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

POEM: Cause for Applause

Posted on August 4, 2022August 4, 2022 by Post Contributor

Have you heard / that our universe / may be left-handed?

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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…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
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…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
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…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

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…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

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…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

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…”

Posted in Essays/Poetry
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