These ponderings originally appeared one per day via MailChimp. This weekly version keeps them in one place for people who missed the daily postings. If you would like to sign up to get them daily, you can do so by filling out the Mailing List Form HERE. Responsibilities It’s always a challenge to decide whether …
In a world that thinks of ‘a long time’ as the length of a TV commercial break, ‘the future’ tends to be next week (or, maybe, next month…or in election years, November.) This makes it hard to be intensely concerned about anything with an impact we may not live to see. ‘Deep’ is not very …
What is your bottom line? When all is said and done, what do you consider the primary, the most important consideration, the ultimate value of your life? Or let’s come at “bottom line” slightly differently, What is the benefit (profit, net gain) you are leaving to the world? Or how about this: What is your …
The end of September marks the beginning of my personal new year. November 1 began Samhain, the first season of the new year in the ancient calendar. But January 1 is the beginning of the year in the Gregorian calendar by which most of us mark time in our secular world. It is a time …
Watching the fireworks from our home on July 4th this year was a surprisingly good metaphor for what feels like the current state of our country. The first Independence Day after we moved to Denver nine years ago, I was startled and delighted and amazed to see the whole sky (well, about 230 degrees of …
Our travels have brought us to Mesa Verde, one of the truly extraordinary landscapes of the United States. Indeed, it is more than a piece of North American geography and history; it is a World Heritage Site. Our guide explained the World Heritage designation comes not from Mesa Verde’s past, but from the fact that …
Along with most of the rest of the United States, my husband and I are in the final stages of paying taxes for 2013. As most people who handle the process themselves — as opposed to hiring a CPA to do it — know, the US tax code is not exactly an intuitive document, nor …
In the west, the issue of water runs just beneath the surface of our lives. Or, increasingly, is being drained away, insuring that much of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and northern Mexico will be a wasteland in two or three more generations. Already the Colorado River ends miles north of where it flowed only …