Wednesday, September 27

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Meet your Representatives: Stephen Hume

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...

Mother Tree Festival: Remembering our Roots

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,...

Mother Tree Festival: Remembering our Roots

By: Chantelle Pence We can’t choose our relatives, but we can choose whether or not...

Governor Polis calls Renewable Water Resources scheme a “zombie threat”: An Eagle exclusive interview with the state governor

Colorado Governor Jared Polis spoke to Crestone Eagle Editor John Waters in a wide-ranging...

Colorado’s disappearing sub-alpine forests

By November, those who heat their dwellings with wood stoves should have a good...

Power, racism, morality & crime: The history of abortion in the United States

“Enforced motherhood is the most complete denial of a woman’s right to life and...
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