Since the start of the year, long-time locals, mostly veterans of the Sixties demonstrations, are marching once a month down Telluride’s Colorado Avenue, carrying signs about No Kings and the Fall of Freedom and other lefty political slogans. It’s a phenomenon that happening all over the country.

BOOKED FOR THE MILLENNIUM … I love books. Let’s start there. It’s not exactly the focus of young people these days, my own kids included. They resonate with podcasts, social media, reels & videos, movies & concerts. It’s a different world than the ‘50s, when I grew up. Books were the sources of knowledge, escape from the confines of family, community, religious affiliation. They opened up a couple thousand years of human experience, stretching back to Gutenberg and before … 

VALENTINE’S DAY … Once I left the seminary back in the Sixties, I got to be full-on romantic. Poetry, not the priesthood, held me in thrall. Riding around San Francisco on a Honda 250 with my opera jacket, long beard, and flowers in my hair, my wife’s scarf floating Isadora Duncan-style behind us down San Francisco’s Mission Street, as we wove our way in and out of traffic towork downtown …

LABOR TROUBLES REDUX … It was interesting to see the labor troubles of the 1900s mirrored in the recent Ski Patrol strike in Telluride…

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Header image by Anne McHugh.