Special Features

About 38 years ago, Crestone town trustee Stephen Hume was living as an artist-in-residence at Lindisfarne, an interfaith sanctuary built into the Sangre de Cristo hillside in 1979. A couple of months after he began his residency, Lindisfarne was transferred to the ownership of the Crestone Mountain Zen Center and Hume was invited to stay on for another year — practicing Zen Buddhism and gradually realizing that the San Luis Valley was a place he wished to call home. “While I was a resident there, I found a piece of property on the eastern edge of the town of Crestone,” he...

By: Chantelle Pence We can’t choose our relatives, but we can choose whether or not to interact in a sacred way with all our relations. Over Mother’s Day weekend, a crowd gathered at the Crestone campus of Colorado College to explore ways of being in better relationship with the spaces we inhabit. The Mother Tree Festival featured an impressive lineup of speakers representing science and traditional wisdom. The event aimed to inspire and educate people to be intentional and active participantsin the network of life within and around us. Jose Lucero, a traditional Tewa Pueblo elder from the Santa Clara Pueblo,...

Colorado Governor Jared Polis spoke to Crestone Eagle Editor John Waters in a wide-ranging interview on September 22 that included the proposal by Renewable Water Resources to export water from the San Luis Valley to Douglas County, the governor’s initiative, the Heat Beneath our Feet to increase energy production from geothermal sources, the possibilities of agrivoltaics in the San Luis Valley, the affects of decreased cannabis tax revenues and a possible bid for the White House in 2024. Polis began the interview by saying he is “super-excited” the Crestone Eagle is now a non-profit. POLIS: Congrats on the non-profit model ....

“Enforced motherhood is the most complete denial of a woman’s right to life and liberty.” ­—Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood By 1880 women wanted to control their own money, their own property, and their own bodies. They even wanted to vote! By 1880, black men and women were free. They began families and started having free-born black babies. By 1880 Chinese and Hispanic immigrants were flooding into the U.S. By 1880 abortion was banned nationwide.  Throughout the 1700s and early 1800s, abortion was common and simply a part of everyday life. Even the Catholic Church tacitly approved of abortion until ensouling, or quickening, when...