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Category: Essays/Poetry

ESSAY: Phyl Has Left the Building!

ESSAY: Phyl Has Left the Building!

Posted on November 28, 2022November 29, 2022 by DC Duncan

Her fiery Letters to the Editor were legendary. She thought that the coming of a big-box store was the beginning of the end of life as we knew it…

Posted in Essays/Poetry

HMPRESENTLY: Avoiding Spiky Balls

Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 by Harvey Radin

And like ships at sea, in battle zones, my family and I have been trying to avoid sailing over any viral, explosive mines…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
ESSAY: Roberto Garcia, Jr... Master Sculptor

ESSAY: Roberto Garcia, Jr… Master Sculptor

Posted on November 22, 2022November 22, 2022 by DC Duncan

Photos by Jeff Laydon, Pagosa Photography. Sunday, November 13, 2022 was cold and crisp – a perfect afternoon to attend an artist reception high above READ MORE

Posted in 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Posted in Essays/Poetry
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