The Durango Telegraph publishes every Thursday, come hell, high water, tacky singletrack or mon-
Ear to the ground:
“I’ve been in The Nugget more times than McCormack’s this year.”
– Some ski seasons are just like that. At least your liver is getting a workout.
Two decades of DIFF
It may seem hard to believe, but Durango’s small, homegrown film festival is turning 20 this year. And to celebrate, it’s even bigger, better and badder (we mean that in a “good” bad way) than ever.
the cover A male goldeneye duck who bears an uncanny resemblance to Elvis, takes a swim in the Animas River recently with some of his lady friends –and who can blame them?/ Photo by Andy High
Kicking off Wed., March 5, with a free community movie night, DIFF brings five days of independent film to our corner of the cinematic universe, offering nearly 100 independent films for our viewing pleasure. This year’s selections run the gamut, spanning all genres and geographies – from revelatory documentaries and gripping narratives to groundbreaking shorts and animated features. DIFF also presents its Native Cinema programming, which has been a part of the festival since its inception. According to DIFF’s Executive Director Carol Fleisher, this year’s selection process was one of the most challenging – and for good reason. “We received more submissions than ever in our two-decade history –and from over 40 countries,” Fleisher said. “The screening teams had an embarrassment of riches to comb through. It’s the kind of challenge we love!”
Screenings take place at the Durango Arts Center and the Gaslight Cinema. Winners of this year’s festival will be announced Sat., March 8, at the newly named “DIFFy Awards” ceremony at Public House 701 (701 E. 2nd Ave.)
In addition to viewing, DIFF offers a number of ways to connect with fellow film lovers and filmmakers from around the world. Special events include:
• March 6-8: Coffee talks with filmmakers, 8:30 a.m., EsoTerra Ciderworks
• March 6: Party hosted by 4 Corners Film Office, EsoTerra Ciderworks, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
• March 7: Meet the Filmmakers party at the Black Heron Lounge, 6-8 p.m.
• March 8: DIFFy Awards, Public House 701, 8 p.m.
• March 9: Screening of indigenous storytelling project, Durango Arts Center For a festival film guide, schedule and passes, go to: durangofilm.org.
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Spring, boomboxes & dictionaries
Around this time of year when winter and spring mingle for a moment, I find my unconsoled heart reflecting on loved ones no longer around, recounting the headstones turning one year older that belong to friends I never gave a proper goodbye to. But these new days of spring are brighter, so they say, and I embrace that too. I think it’s beautiful and unbearably human to hold multiple truths at once. If you’re here for wisdom, I can’t make any promises. All I can say is there’s a sunflower in the sky, and there’s something surreal about experiencing heartbreak in a thousand ways every day while still embracing the promise of tomorrow’s sunrise.
Something I return to around this time of year is the first song off The Gaslight Anthem’s debut album: “I took a drive today/ I thought about you/ I thought about a friend who passed/ And how much we just went through.”
The lyrics are from the song “Boomboxes and Dictionaries,” off the band’s 2007 debut release, “Sink or Swim.” As a rez kid growing up on the Navajo Nation, through the magic of the internet I came around to this New Jersey punk band in March 2007. Back then, the younger versions of myself and my friends were only concerned with the day-to-day. Back then, it felt like death and the future would never find us. Grieving the loss of friends had yet to become a common reality, but that’s a recurring theme in The Gaslight Anthem’s early music.
With the song “Boomboxes and Dictionaries,” the band began its career holding both grief and joy in every note. The song starts with a dirty guitar riff that quivers and rings out before the whole band jumps in. That moment mimics the act of someone seated in their car, turning the engine and then taking a contemplative breath before driving forward. Throughout the track, lead singer and rhythm guitarist Brian Fallon’s gritty vocals wander between weariness and perseverance.
missed phone call from an old friend who I mistakenly take for granted because days later, I find out that friend is gone. Then I’m left shattered and wondering if answering that call would have changed anything.
My new year’s resolutions now are more like pleading prayers: Dear God, for these next few months can you not take so many full-of-life people away from me? I come to you as a writer left speechless after witnessing so much loss in the last year. And I want to know, God, what does it look like when you spare mercy? Do I just not see it around me?
There’s a reason The Gaslight Anthem titled its debut album “Sink or Swim.” Before Gaslight, all four band members had been in various bands that dissolved before gaining momentum. From the start, The Gaslight Anthem was a collective last chance to make a statement. On “Sink or Swim,” the band’s raw sound is indebted to The Clash, The Cure and Bruce Springsteen, among others. Thematically, the album grapples with mortality and heartache, asking “What next?” The band would carry these themes forward on later releases, refining their songwriting on polished-up albums and working with legendary rock producers like Brendan O’Brien. Along the way, Springsteen also became a devoted fan. While I love every version of the band, I have a soft spot for that first Gaslight album.
I return to “Sink or Swim” during this time, when a season of cold darkness gives way to a season of warm renewal. Throughout this shift, I’m adrift in remembrance of all the people I’m missing. In the album’s cathartic sincerity, it tries to make sense of the blessing and curse of life wrapped up in loss. When I revisit this album today, I realize that perhaps mercy is found in recognizing the innate beauty of being alive. It is a miracle what we do with our hearts and hands, the way we guide our love toward each other, to the world and to our inner self. The fleeting eternal moments of love we share offer a glimpse of something divine, a glimpse of that other world we’re trying to create within our current one broken by empire.
After contemplating the toll of recent losses, Fallon concludes the second verse by singing, “I thought about how fortunate I feel to be alive.” You can hear Fallon stepping forward and saying it like he means it, which is why those lyrics keep my heart. Discovering The Gaslight Anthem also meant discovering what it means to grow up while grieving. Oftentimes the loss is abrupt, like a
Thumbin’It
Hundreds of folks braved a wet and cold Monday morning to stand on Highway 160 in the snow to protest recent firings of federal employees and show support for our public lands.
So, Musk and his BullDOGEr, in their infinite wisdom, just fired a bunch of IRS workers. Does this mean we don’t have to pay our taxes this year? Just asking …
Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court just denied his bid to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid, kicking it back to the lower courts. Hey, what do you know? Could it be that checks and balances are actually … working?
In the chorus of “Boomboxes and Dictionaries,” Fallon sings out to despairing hearts, “If you’re scared of the future tonight / We’ll just take it each hour one at a time.” It’s a small demand that I still take shelter in. We can invent hope by the hour until we’re renewed together.
– Kirbie Bennett
In his 100 minutes of hot air on Tuesday night, President Trump managed to spew about 15 misleading, false or unsubstantiated claims – an impressive clip, even for him.
Just when we thought it couldn’t get worse than the quagga and zebra mussels, Colorado waterways now have to deal with the invasive golden mussel, which makes the aforementioned species look like cute lily dippers.
First avocadoes, now our beloved craft beer is expected to be hit hard by Trump’s tariff tantrum. Please, somebody tell us it’s going to be OK.
Yard Swine Lucas Hunt, who probably goes by Lucas instead of Luc so his name doesn’t sound like a prank call, started selling “thank you Jesus” yard signs out of his mom’s van in 2016 when he was 17 years old. Nowadays, he’s 25 and rich because he’s sold more than 250,000 signs, and all that money came in handy last Tuesday when he was forced to post a $75,000 bond after being charged with “sex exploitation of a minor.” This of course begs the question why folks want to put bibles in schools given that bibles in churches haven’t seemed to help. But either way, at least another predator is off the streets, so yeah… thank you, Jesus.
The blame game
Mountain lions deserve protections, not scapegoating
by Wendy Keefover
Mule deer herds are declining across the West for many reasons.
But three states, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada, want to pin the blame on mountain lions and “resolve” the issue by using cruel traps. Utah has now opened the floodgates to year-round lion hunting and trapping, while Nevada continues to resist trapping reforms. In Wyoming, a proposed law allowing lion hunting and trapping without restrictions was thwarted only after legislators heard overwhelming opposition from citizens as well as the state’s wildlife department.
In 2023, Utah legislators quietly but drastically altered lion management without a public involvement process. Since trapping began, of the 109 lions captured by trappers, 82% were females.
This coincides with a recent study that found that most mountain lions who fall victim to traps are hungry mothers, driven to feed themselves and their kittens. But dead mothers can’t nourish orphaned kittens, who are left to starve.
State agencies use the survival of adult females as a measure for maintaining lion populations. Utah data shows that in 2024, the female lion mortality rate reached an unsustainable 60%.
The state’s carnivore manager recently admitted that Utah’s lion populations are in decline. He also told a legislative committee last fall that “we need to keep our foot on the gas” to continue to suppress female lions. At that same meeting, his boss said that prolonged drought had taken a toll on mule deer numbers.
It only makes things worse that in January 2025 Utah’s wildlife board approved the sale of mountain lion pelts, claws and skulls on global markets.
In contrast, Wyoming’s House Bill 0286, which would have removed quotas, season limits and prohibitions on
Although mountain lions are often blamed for ecological ills such as low mule deer numbers, research shows shrinking deer populations are likely due to climate change and habitat encroachment. In fact, lions are actually good for deer and elk populations by culling the weak and sick animals and stopping the spread of wasting disease./ Photo: Gerald Corsi (iStock).
trapping mountain lions, failed to make it past its first committee hearing. The values of participatory democracy and science-based management won the day.
When it comes to traps, the problem is that they also indiscriminately kill non-target species, including endangered animals, deer, raptors and pets.
Yet Nevada continues to prioritize trappers’ interests over ethical and biological considerations.
This January, Nevada’s wildlife commissioners denied a citizen petition that sought to modify trapping regulations to prevent the suffering and deaths of mountain lions caught in traps set for other animals. Overlooking strong arguments, the commission voted to uphold
its current time limit for checking traps to 96 hours.
This means lions or other trapped animals could suffer for days in leghold traps or foot snares until the trapper arrives to kill them.
Here’s the basic issue: States blame lions for the decline in mule deer, but science makes it clear that the West’s populations suffer most from the threats of modern life.
Highways, housing and energy development fragment the land, while cattle and sheep compete for habitat. Other pressures come from over-hunting, poaching, wildfire, noxious weeds, drought and fluctuations in snowpack and temperatures.
There’s also chronic wasting disease, a fatal, infectious prion disease that affects deer, elk and moose. Mountain lions and other native carnivores play a critical role in limiting and even halting the spread of CWD.
In a Wyoming study, biologists found that 28% of mule deer in two populations were infected, and that lions primarily preyed upon sick individuals.
Colorado study similarly revealed that mountain lions killed more diseased deer than human hunters, and that lions consumed over 85% of the carcasses, thus removing substantial amounts of prion contamination from the environment.
Unlike human hunters who target the healthiest individuals in a population, carnivores selectively prey on diseased animals. Lions are needed to maintain healthy herds, and if states were smart, they’d recognize their value to our ecosystems.
The contrasting attitudes of these three states illustrate a larger battle over managing wildlife in the West. Utah has embraced a market-driven approach that prioritizes commercial interests over conservation.
Wyoming, even with its strong hunting culture, recognized that unregulated mountain lion killing was too radical. Nevada, despite calls for reform, remains stuck in outdated, cruel policies.
For the sake of the West’s ecosystems, we need wildlife agencies and lawmakers to look at the facts and stop scapegoating native carnivores. Anyone who wants to hunt abundant mule deer herds needs to face the reality that the West’s landscapes are degraded.
Lions, though, are not to blame.
Wendy Keefover is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring conversation about the West. She is senior strategist for native carnivore protection for Humane World for Animals. ■
Free Divorce & Custody Clinic
Doing your own divorce/custody case in Colorado presented by Colorado Legal Services March 24, 5:30-7 p.m., D .m., Durango Public Librar ublic y & via Z Zoom oom For more information, go to: durangovap.com/events.
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It’s a shame
Nice country we had. It would be a shame if anything happened to it. It’s happening. We’re becoming the oligarch’s dream of mega profits from the incarceration-nation industry. You pay, they ride the gravy train. And so it begins, or continues. Of all irony, the terrible people destroying our country would look good behind bars.
-– Stephanie Johnson, Hesperus
Support Ukraine
On Dec. 5,1994, Ukraine signed an agreement wherein it would dispose of its nuclear weapons, which were the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, for a guarantee by the U.S., U.K. and Russia to provide Ukraine’s security. Ukraine relinquished its nuclear weapons to Russia. Subsequently, Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014 and occupied Crimea. In 2022, Russia attacked again and now occupies eastern provinces of Ukraine.
The Unites States should continue providing military equipment and supplies to Ukraine to belatedly comply
with the security agreement we signed in 1994.
Maybe we should provide loans to Ukraine instead of grants of funds and equipment, or have Ukraine repay us with their abundant supply of rare earth minerals which we need. We are negotiating with Ukraine on this matter.
Unfortunately, Secretary of Defense Hegseth significantly set back peace negotiations when he said Ukraine cannot go back to its pre-2014 borders, which relinquishes Crimea and land in eastern Ukraine to Russia. He also said it is unrealistic for Ukraine to join NATO, and Europe must take on a greater role in its security. This is a capitulation to Russia before negotiations even start, and it could increase Russian threats to Europe.
– Donald Moskowitz, Londonderry, N.H.
Workers deserve better
Our precious public lands are not red or blue. Some are sacred. Some are waterways. They are forests, deserts or grasslands. And some tower over our landscapes topped with snow where eagles soar.
Here in the Four Corners, we are fortunate to have access to these special places where no matter your political flavor, you can recreate, rest, explore, hunt, fish, horseback ride, raft or kayak, bike, hike, watch wildlife or just sit and soak it all in. We have monuments, national parks, state parks, and community parks and spaces.
The care of our public lands is critical for their preservation and sustainability in order to have them in good condition in perpetuity. Right now, our federal lands are under siege because those that care for them are being harassed and abused. These federal employees work for the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, among others. They fight our fires, clear our trails, protect the ruins, monitor the wildlife and water, clean the restrooms, rescue the lost and injured, and answer our questions at visitor centers. Hundreds of federal workers are right here in the Four Corners – likely your neighbors and your friends.
Yet lately, they go to work every day scared for their job, their families, their mortgage, their health care. These are dedicated federal workers – passionate about these special places and passionate about sharing them with the American public and visitors from around the world. We all likely agree there is some degree of fraud and waste in federal government just as there is anywhere in any workforce. But there are processes and policies to hold people accountable. Instilling fear and threats and stress is not the American way – red, blue or independent – in order to reduce our federal debt. Federal employees are being wrongfully and reck-
lessly fired. Across the country, our public lands –America’s greatest treasures – are experiencing these reductions in staff, which will lead to area closures, public safety issues, lack of emergency response, reduction or elimination of visitor center operations, and lack of maintenance including filthy or closed restrooms, overflowing trash receptacles and increased impacts to resources. Budget cuts and mass firings are also going to cause reductions in economic benefits to surrounding communities that depend on visitor expenditures such as Cortez, Durango and Silverton.
If you care about our Four Corners treasures and those who care for them, contact your representatives and let them know this matters to you. If you’re like me, you want these places and experiences for our kids and grandkids and neighbors. And the people who have dedicated their lives and careers to protecting them deserve to be treated compassionately and with respect. That is clearly not happening.
– Elaine Leslie, NPS retired, Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, Durango
Time for Hurd to step up
I’m calling on Rep. Hurd to do more to prioritize our health, climate and future. This includes:
• Stopping efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act's climate and clean energy policies that will put us on a path to cut climate pollution 40% by 2030, create 9 million jobs and lower energy prices.
• Blocking the Trump administration and unelected billionaire Elon Musk from cutting vital government
programs and staff to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
• Resisting attempts to eliminate various environmental protection laws.
As a citizen and outdoor enthusiast these issues have a huge impact on me.
I urge Rep. Hurd to protect people in our community over corporate polluters. We need you to fight for us.
– Eugenia Miller, Durango
Lineage
Father’s fathers oared the dorys into the eastern ocean. Bobbing through breakers tossing nets till dusk, trawling the shoals. The bearded breakers cut sleeting winds off their anchorage. This was their burden each morn, out with the tide, in with the surge. Cautious of Njord’s mood and the horizons hue, they compassed their drift; then, the swells arose, shifting their position, as not to be guttered in the trough, they leaned against the wind, these fishermen of Maine with slickened bibs of Deer Isle and Port Clyde.
– Burt Baldwin, Bayfield
Hard to swallow
Trump’s tariffs hit one of Colorado’s most valuable resources – craft beer
by Sarah Mulholland
Colorado Public Radio
Like everything else, beer has gotten more expensive in the past several years. So has the cost to produce it.
Now Colorado’s craft brewers, businesses on which Colorado created a culture and a reputation, are girding for even higher costs. As President Donald Trump lobs tariffs at the United States’ largest trading partners, prices are poised to go up on everything from aluminum cans to grain.
Those higher costs are likely to be passed on to Colorado’s beer drinkers. That could be a further drag on an industry already struggling with declining sales.
“At some point, it just gets too expensive,” Dave Thibodeau, president and cofounder of Ska Brewing, said. “And I think we’re up against that threshold, or we will be with these tariffs.”
At Ska, they’re looking at discontinuing some beers because they don’t make economic sense anymore.
“Although they’re beers we love … they’re not actually making us any money now, and we don’t feel like we can really raise the prices too much more,” Thibodeau said.
Brewers will be hard-pressed to keep a lid on prices if all of Trump’s tariff proposals come to pass. After weeks of waffling, Trump on Tuesday imposed a 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico, while also increasing tariffs on China. Separately, tariffs on steel and aluminum are slated to go into effect March 12.
Tariffs are simply a tax that businesses have to pay on goods and materials brought in from other countries. The administration’s stated goal is to get businesses to manufacture more of what they need in the United States, which would theoretically lead to more jobs. But many business owners contend it will mostly lead to higher prices for everybody.
“Any kind of manufacturing business right now, it’s not going to help keep them in business. It’s only going to hurt,” Thibodeau said.
What’s bad for brewers is bad for business in Colorado. The industry generates more than $2.4 billion in economic impact, including jobs and revenues, according to the Brewers Association.
The administration’s broad tariffs
would leave virtually no corner of the state’s craft brew business untouched.
At Diebolt Brewing Co., in Denver, there are all kinds of steel vats and widgets for boiling, fermenting and storing.
Most of the equipment comes from overseas, according to owner Dan Diebolt. It could cost more because of tariffs, he said.
But he’s most worried about the things that go into the equipment – the building blocks of beer.
“The grain is a product that I would be more concerned (about) with tariffs because our grain comes from all over the world, and there’s no telling who is going to become the target of that … . Ingredients are probably 25% of our overall cost,” Diebolt said. “We have hundreds of supply points to actually make this brewery work and to try and know individually what’s being affected by this is really, really hard to do.”
For Ska’s Thibodeau, the aluminum tariffs are top of mind. About two-thirds of the company’s revenue comes from
off-site sales at places like supermarkets and liquor stores. All that beer comes in aluminum cans.
“Aluminum is the scariest for us,” he said. “Cans are a lot cheaper than bottles … I feel like as far as looking at alternatives, like something other than an aluminum can, I don’t know that we can get anything less expensive, even after the tariffs,” Thibodeau said.
Most of Colorado’s craft brewers are reliant on aluminum cans to some extent, according to Casey LeFever, chief operating officer at Broomfield-based 4 Noses Brewing. Breweries have been contending with volatile aluminum prices for a while. Prices shot up during the pandemic when taprooms and bars shut down, and businesses needed another way to sell beer.
If tariffs persist, prices will probably shoot up again, LeFever said. Large corporations have ways to manage, but local craft brewers don’t, he said.
“Coca-Cola has said they have the flexibility to put more of their product in
plastic if needed. We don’t have that ability. We can’t just buy a new plastic beerbottling line,” LeFever said.
All of this comes at a difficult time for craft brewers. Alcohol sales are down everywhere because people are drinking less. In Colorado, a crowded market for brewers, 41 of the state’s roughly 400 breweries shut down last year, according to the Colorado Beverage Coalition.
“Across the industry, it’s just challenging times to begin with. So any rising cost is not good,” LeFever said.
The threat of tariffs – and uncertainty over how they could be implemented – is making it difficult to plan ahead, according to LeFever.
“Our materials that we buy are going to see a random surge in cost. Well, we can’t even control that … so to have that looming makes it tough to forecast and that’s a key part of running a healthy business,” he said.
For more from Colorado Public Radio, go to: www.cpr.org. ■
Ska Brewing’s CEO Dave Thibodeau poses with some of his products during the great “candemic” in 2020, when supply chain issues led to an aluminum can shortage and spike in prices. Ska, and other craft breweries that are already contending with a drop in sales, are worried that Trump’s new tariffs will affect the price of aluminum, as well as ingredients for their beer, many of which are sourced from abroad. / Photo courtesy Kristin Muraro
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March madness
Mixed in Mancos, Cumbia Club, Celtic Fest and more
by Stephen Sellers
Greetings, dear readers! We made it to March. The birds are singing and soon, so will the sound systems of outdoor festivals and concerts. This is with the notable exception of the Four Corners Folk Festival, which has hit pause in an effort to pay off accumulated debt. For now, we have a beautiful close to the end of our indoor-focused music season, with a special shout out to the Durango Celtic Festival, celebrating its 11th season of bringing world-class music to our community. As always, see you on the dance floor!
• Artikal Sound System, Sitting on Stacy, Animas City Theatre, Thurs., March 6, 7 p.m. - South Florida reggae comes to town for a midweek show at the Animas City Theatre. Artikal Sound System generated headlines a few years ago when they alleged that Dua Lipa ripped off their 2017 track “Live Your Life.” Ultimately dismissed in court, the band has nonetheless continued to spread its energetic modern reggae.
• Mixed in Mancos w/ The Lindells, Carute Roma and The Yoties, Mancos Opera House, Sat., March 8, 6 p.m. - The Mancos Creative District presents “Mixed in Mancos,” where three bands perform at the Mancos Opera House, and recordings from the shows are mixed, mastered and pressed into vinyl for your listening pleasure. This year features The Lindells opening, Durango gypsy-legends Carute Roma and Arizona’s The Yoties bringing their self-described brand of “IrieZona” reggae rock.
• Bad Goat Cumbia Club, Black Heron Lounge, Fri., March 7, 9 p.m. - It’s time for some shameless selfpromotion. I’m turning 40 this week and am hosting a party at the Black Heron Lounge. This is a spin on my normal Bad Goat Disco party: this time, I’m DJing cumbia music that I’ve collected in record stores in Peru. Proceeds from the night go to Los Compañeros, a fantastic nonprofit that can use our help. Tickets are cheap, at the door, and the show goes late!
• Dana Ariel and the Coming Up Roses w/ Elementum, Indigo Room at iAM Music, Sat., March 8, 8 p.m. - Hot off their lights-out performance at KDUR Cover Night, Dana Ariel and the Coming Up Roses slide into Durango’s most intimate listening bar, The Indigo Room, to celebrate the release of their single “Wishful Thinking.” Prepare yourself for a set of all-original soulful tunes.
• Mixxed presents Dantiez, Ana M, Specific Heat, Bad Goat, Black Heron Lounge, Sat., March 15, 8 p.m. - The Black Heron Lounge has quickly become the next hot spot for music outside Animas City Theatre for DJs and dancers. The space features an incredibly high-quality sound system, impressive lighting, and friendly bar service. Their biggest billing yet strikes this month with Detroit’s Dantiez Saunderson coming to town for Durango’s favorite Burqueña, Ana M’s, Mixxed party. If you know anything about techno, this is kind of a big deal. His Dantiez’s dad has been a major
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pioneer of it for more than 40 years. Local support from Specific Heat and Bad Goat.
• SkiiTour, Fort Knox Five & Spark Madden, Animas City Theatre, Sat., March 22, 7 p.m. - With more than 6 million streams across all digital platforms and tracks that have spent weeks on the Beatport Top 100, SkiiTour is the Whistler, B.C.-based DJ duo and production team of Dave Rollinson and Tim Livingstone. Most of their fame is situated in Canada, but they’ve found great success connecting with audiences digitally (as evidenced by their being knighted as a Twitch partner). One thing is for certain – their carefully curated brand is playful, energetic, groovy and upbeat.
• Tashi T and Friends, The Subterrain, Sat., March 22, 8 p.m. - Thank goodness it’s time for another Tashi T show. They are easily one of my favorite writers and performers in town, and chances are, if you see Tashi live, you’ll also fall as quiet and still as a clear, star-filled night in the desert. Expect songs about love, wonder, and getting lost in it all.
• Durango Celtic Festival w/ Old Blind Dogs, Daimh, Heron Valley & more, Community Concert Hall at FLC, Fri.-Sat., March 28-29 - The Durango Celtic Festival lives on and returns with an incredible booking of the multi-award-winning Old Blind Dogs. The band formed in the ’90s and has done more than any other group on the planet to preserve, promote and progress Scottish folk music. The festival is full of workshops, parties and other great bands. Visit www.durangocelticfestival.com for more information!
• Ghost Note w/ Nu Bass Theory, Animas City Theatre, Tues., April 1, 7 p.m. - The funkiest show of the month – heck, of the season – descends upon the Animas City Theatre on April Fool’s Day. Led by members of Snarky Puppy and Kendrick Lamar’s band, Ghost Note is launching into a months-long tour that includes a midweek stopover in Durango. Local funk electro-funk duo Nu Bass Theory is on direct support. ■
SkiiTour, aka the D.J. duo of Dave Rollinson and Tim Livingstone, play the ACT on March 22.
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Life on the edge
Marcie Rendon returns with third in Cash Blackbear series
by Jeffrey Mannix
In January 2019, I received a reviewer’s galley from Cinco Puntos Press, a publisher I hadn’t known or heard of. The book turned out to be the dreamy gamble of two bookish friends quartered in a rented or borrowed storefront in downtown El Paso, Texas.
I love the surprise of handpicked and loved books from gutsy, low-volume, literary entrepreneurs. And who but the genuinely undaunted would presume to make a go of publishing English language novels in a city that’s nearly 90% percent Hispanic? Who would spend hard-won money to send a 200-page glued-up book to a book reviewer? You’ve got to love the pluck.
The novel Cinco Puntos sent me was “Girl Gone Missing,” written by a mature, creative influencer and member of the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Marcie. R. Rendon. This was her second book with Cinco Puntos Press, and it is a lovely, endearing story about the life of 19-year-old Cash Blackbear circa 1970s. She drives beet trucks and tractors for area farmers while barely attending a small college in Fargo, N.D., where she lives. Every night, she makes real money playing eight-ball in the local bar and is on call to Norman County Sheriff Wheaton for her uncanny intuition in criminal cases.
A product of the fostering system since infancy, at 5 feet 2 inches, Cash is a hellcat who suffers no fools. (You can read my May 2, 2019, review in the “Murder Ink” ar-
chives at www.durango telegraph.com. It’s a lovely story you’ll never forget.)
And now, released March 4, is Rendon’s third Cash Blackbear mystery, “Broken Fields,” this time published by the industry’s preeminent crime fiction pub lisher, Soho Press. It was inevita ble after the success of “Girl Gone Missing” that one of the big New York publishers would lure Rendon away. This one shows the polished narrative of Cash’s existence circulating around trucks, Marlboro ciga rettes, beer, some school now and again, a little perfunctory sex, and suckering farm boys to play pool at the Casbah.
It’s a pretty mundane, rural existence until she finds a farmer she’s plowing for dead on the kitchen floor of his farm manager’s house. The house is empty of the manager and his wife, but Cash finds their little darkeyed, black-haired daughter frightened and speechless under a bed upstairs.
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Cash once again finds herself in the middle of the familiar brutality of life on and off the reservation. Sheriff Wheaton needs her intuition and instinct for presaging misaligned messages, and “Broken Fields” is another stunning tale of life outside cultured restraint.
Rendon has the talent to stay out of her writing and let the story tell itself through the leathery life of Cash Blackbear. She’s a character you will never forget and forever feel a part of you and the impatience you may feel these days for things gone not quite right.
“Broken Fields” is a must if you read “Girl Gone Missing.” And if you want a real E-ticket ride, go to Maria’s Bookshop and drop $16 for Cinco Puntos Press’ paperback of “Girl Gone Missing.” Then it won’t hurt so much to go back for Soho Crime’s $29 tidy 250page hardback of “Broken Fields.” And ease the burden further by asking Maria’s for your 15% Murder Ink discount. ■
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Mr. Bojangles’ dog
A night at Durango’s Emergency Warming Center
It’s 6:15 in the morning; the temperature outside is 11 degrees Fahrenheit.
Our “guests” are stirring inside the warming center, stuffing leftover sandwiches into their backpacks and plastic bags, opening packets of cocoa into Styrofoam cups. Some arrived when it opened at 5 p.m. last night – the temperature was predicted to reach the threshold of 15 degrees overnight, so the warming center was open. Regulations also require the guests vacate by 6:30 a.m., often the coldest hours of a cold night. This night we have had about 11 guests, all in various stages of despair and disrepair.
One woman, tall and slender, came in around 2 in the morning after sitting in her car most of the night. She looked to be in her 40s though guessing ages of the guests is often complicated by the hardscrabble lives they have lived … some for many, many years. The woman who came in from the cold said she was passing through on her way to California where one of her daughters lives. She was from New Hampshire, and her
JusttheFacts
The Durango Emergency Warming Center provided shelter on 19 nights in January and February. It is located in the Community Compassion Outreach Center, at 21738 HWY 160 W. Although the warming center is closed for the season, the Compassion Center is open Mon.- Fri., 9 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. and Saturdays at 11 a.m. for light breakfast, snacks, beverages, lunch and support.
car’s battery had conked out. She was uncertain if the warming center would accept her as a transient, but she couldn’t heat her car, and at 2 in the morning, she was cold. She was clearly a woman with education; she was polite, soft-spoken, articulate and asked if she might have some cocoa and hot soup that was available.
A number of our guests were strung out this night; some wound up from drugs and others living inside their mentally anguished minds. Our warming center is low-barrier, but by city reg-
ulation, it is a “no sleep” warming center. Guests can sit on plastic chairs, but they cannot sleep; even after negotiating the cold winter day in our town, sitting on warm grates near our boutiques and restaurants, in the back of the post office, at the bus station, inside the coffee houses or at the library. They are not welcome in our town. It is illegal for them to put up a tent. There is no shelter. They have nowhere to keep their meager belongings safe, nowhere to take a shower or go to the bathroom.
Then there is “Mr. Bojangles” and Mr. Bojangles’ dog, both happy in our warming center, which accepts leashed dogs. There is water and dog food, and Mr. Bojangles’ dog can sleep as much as he wants, curled up or stretched out under a table while Mr. Bojangles sits on a hard plastic chair. He rests his head on his tattered backpack and listens to other guests as they chatter quietly or in loud and agitated voices, to the voices haunting them deep within their tortured psyches.
Our transient lady, meanwhile, wraps her hands around a Styrofoam cup
steaming with hot rehydrated noodle soup and stares straight ahead, somehow embarrassed by her very existence at this moment … homeless, on the road to somewhere else, with a brokendown car.
Mr. Bojangles is also quiet, his haunted life buried somewhere deep within. He is old – or at least looks old. His hair is unkempt and beard in disarray; his cane is leaning against the table along with his jacket, a neck scarf and a cap. He unpacked various electronics when he arrived, and now, after being on chargers during the night, he repacks them in his jacket and backpack.
Mr. Bojangles’ dog scarfs up dog food provided by the warming center and drinks copiously. Mr. Bojangles opens two packets of instant oatmeal topped off by a packet of cocoa and a dollop of hot water. He sits quietly on his plastic chair, eating his breakfast and perhaps planning his day on the streets; maybe he’ll start off walking to the library, about a mile from here, or stop off at one of the coffee shops, the transit center or the soup kitchen that provides
take-out meals. He is not one of the regulars sitting outside the supermarkets with a sign; he blends into the shadows. He has learned the ways of living on the soft underbelly of our overabundant town.
Our other guests, those whose nighttime-haunts have receded somewhere deep inside with the dawning of a new day, begin to gather their belongings; one asks for some socks. Another woman who showed up at 5 in the morning in a mini skirt and flip flops asks if we have any boots; she and her “husband” both appear to be coming down from some substance, and their agitation is still raw.
Mr. Bojangles has put on his parka, wrapped the scarf around his neck and face, and donned his cap. His dog is eager to be outside. I ask if he will be back tonight, and he smiles and nods. His backpack is so heavy; he puts it on the table and slides the shoulder straps up and over his arms. He has his cane in one hand and his dog leash in the other. He has a strange aura of gratitude around him; his dog is happy, he was warm last night, the sun is out, it is 11 degrees, but there is no wind.
And I, with a few colleagues, begin to sweep up, empty the remaining coffee into the sink, mop the floor, arrange the chairs, and pick up the registration forms. I go to my warm home and curl up in bed for a nap. I dream of Mr. Bojangles and his dog, that he is taking a nap in a field of wildflowers while his dog chases butterflies. When I awaken to my overabundance for reasons quite mysterious to me, I also feel deep gratitude for last night. Mr. Bojangles’ resilience represents a better part of us – of me. We are overwhelmed by transactionalism. I feel utterly disempowered at many levels. I live in a nation that was once dominated by reciprocity and yet, here we are, having drunk the koolaid of individualism. We are who we are. What is our medicine?
– Linda Barnes
Linda Barnes, a retired midwife, has lived in Durango for 25 years and was involved in the ad-hoc group that was instrumental in initiating a warming center in Durango this winter. One of her favorite songs is Nina Simone version of “Mr Bojangles.” ■
One of the area’s many homeless, outside S. City Market. / Telegraph file photo
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Durango Independent Film Festival, all day, Durango Arts Center and Gaslight Twin Cinema
60-year celebration “A Legacy of Gifts,” exhibition and opening reception, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Center of Southwest Studies, FLC
Outdoor etiquette and how to go potty in the wilderness, presented by City Parks Ranger Tosh Black, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Durango Rec Center
Spanish Conversation Hour, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
Blues Night with the Ed Squared Blues Band, 5:30 p.m., Mancos Brewing Co., 484 Hwy 160 E.
Matt Rupnow plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Adam Swanson Ragtime, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Banff Mountain Film Festival, fundraiser for San
Juan Citizens Alliance, 7 p.m., Community Concert Hall at FLC
Stand Up 4 Recovery Comedy Night, 7 p.m., American Legion Hall, 878 E 2nd Ave., tickets TheYayFoundation.org
“The Little Prince,” presented by Durango High School Troop 1096, 7-9 p.m., Durango High School
Local Comedy Showcase, 8-10 p.m., The Subterrain, 900 Main Ave., suite F
Dana Ariel and the Comin’ Up Roses, 8-10 p.m., iAM Music Indigo Room 1315 Main Ave. #207
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Durango Independent Film Festival, all day, Durango Arts Center and Gaslight Twin Cinema
The Garden Guys Heritage Seed Sale, 10 a.m.2 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.
Fusion Bloom Dance Weekend, 12:30-11 p.m., Stillwater Music’s Lightbox, 1316 Main Ave, Ste. C
Board Game Sundays, 2 p.m., Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave.
Weekly Peace Vigil & Rally for Gaza & Palestine, every Sunday, 4 p.m., Buckley Park
Funk Jam Sessions presented by Jimmy’s Music & Supply, 5-7 p.m., 11th Street Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Blue Moon Ramblers play, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Charlie Henry plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
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San Juan Symphony’s Durango Bach Festival concerts and lunch from Manna, 12 noon, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 910 E. 3rd. Ave.
Joel Racheff plays, 5:30-10:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.
Swing & Brewskies dance lessons, 7-9:30 p.m., Durango Beer and Ice Co., 3000 Main Ave.
Mahjong Mondays, 5-7:30 p.m., Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave.
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Great Decisions: “American Policy in the Middle East - Taking Stock and Looking Forward,” presented by the League of Women Voters, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
AskRachel Following suit, persona non grata and sucking up
Interesting fact: Military fatigues come from the “fatigue duties” of soldiers, aka the work that will wear them out. By this reasoning, all my clothes at this point are fatigues.
Dear Rachel,
Let’s suppose that I choose not to wear a suit anymore and instead opt to wear the same clothes as my peers and colleagues. And then, I have a meeting with a couple big bully windbags who mock me for not wearing a suit. Which is worse: wearing something in solidarity with my people or wearing something that fits as poorly as a Spirit Halloween costume?
– Dressed Down
Dear Working Attire,
Don’t worry about wearing a suit. Wear what suits you – and wear what suits the circumstances. Plenty of people in history have changed the world while wearing clothes that didn’t fit. The important thing is that you are true to yourself, so long as you are a good person. Maybe the other people should consider changing their clothes and maybe everything about themselves.
– Thoroughly fatigued, Rachel
Dear Rachel, I recently tried to go skiing on a break from work. Yet, when I got to the slopes, I
San Juan Symphony’s Durango Bach Festival concerts and lunch from Manna, 12 noon, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 910 E. 3rd. Ave.
Cowboy Tuesdays, 12-3 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
City Council and Tax ReAuthorization Forum, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Bear’s General Store, 65 Mercado St.
Jason Thies plays, 6 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Heartwood Cohousing co-founder Mac Thomson discusses cohousing with the Rotary Club of Durango, 6-7 p.m., Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave.
Willow Blue Trio plays, 6-9 p.m., Durango Hot Springs, 6475 CR 203
“The Fall of North America’s Ancient Cities and the Rise of a More Egalitarian Orderl”, 6:30-8 p.m., FLC Noble Hall, Room 130
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wasn’t welcomed at all. In fact, people yelled at me and wrote hurtful things on signs. I had to cancel my trip, and it sucks because the skiing was on national forest land, which might not even exist by next winter. How can I reclaim my needed getaways?
– Out in the Cold
Dear Frozen Out,
Did anyone accuse you of skiing in jeans? Because that right there is one of the classic slope-adjacent jabs. I really can’t think of anything worse than that when you’re trying to catch a fresh powder day. I mean, unless you’re trying to make yourself responsible for the downfall of civilization or something like that. Then you deserve much worse. But that can’t be you, right?
– Cold shouldered, Rachel
Dear Rachel,
I’m in a pickle at work. I don’t like my boss. In addition, I think my boss is wrecking the whole company. But he recently gave me a big promotion, and the job has only two requirements: 1) Do whatever he says, and 2) Pretend he is the best person who ever lived. I gave him a “World’s Best Boss” mug, but he has this other friend who bought him a whole country. I can’t compete with that. Should I stick this out until retirement? – “Yes” Man
Bach Festival concerts and lunch from Manna, 12 noon, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 910 E. 3rd. Ave.
Dealing with Bullying & Peer Pressure, skill-building workshop, 5:15-7 p.m., Three Springs Conference Center, 65 Mercado St., Conference Room 202
Womenade Donors Event, 5:306:30 p.m., 701 Public House, 701 E. 2nd Ave.
La Plata County Early Childcare Plan, public presentation, 5:30-7 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
State of the Animas presented by 5RTU, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Hillcrest Golf Club, 2300 Rim Dr.
Donny Johnson plays, 5:30-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Writers & Scribblers writing group, 6:15-7:45 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
Foraging in the Horn of Africa during the Toba super-eruption,
Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com
Dear Sycophant, Retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Especially the way things are looking now. Like, why save dollars if dollars won’t be worth anything by the time you finish working? I recommend you ditch the boss and take the secret files with you on the way out. Go find yourself a better cause to work for. An actual Best Boss doesn’t demand you to say so – and you can tell by the way he acts, more than the way he dresses. – Boss babe, Rachel
presented by the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society, 7 p.m., Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum, FLC
“Reel Rock 19,” 7 p.m., Community Concert Hall at FLC
Ongoing
Paws for Celebration, online auction for Parker’s Animas Rescue, thru March 9, www.parkersanimalsrescue.com
Local Extraordinary Women
Portrait Exhibit, thru March 31, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
“Given Time: Sensory Aesthetics of Reclamation,” exhibit exploring Indigenous relationships to land, Center of Southwest Studies, FLC, thru April 24.
60-year celebration “A Legacy of Gifts,” exhibition, thru Nov. 13, Center of Southwest Studies, FLC
Heartwood Cohousing 4th Friday Potluck, 6:30 p.m., 800 Heartwood Lane, Bayfield, heartwoodcohousing@ gmail.com to reserve a tour
Upcoming
San Juan Symphony’s Durango Bach Festival concerts and lunch from Manna, Thurs.-Fri., March 13-14, 12 noon, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 910 E. 3rd. Ave.
“Crafternoons” Book Landscapes, Thurs., March 13, 4-5:30 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 E. 3rd Ave.
Kirk James plays, Thurs., March 13, 68 p.m., Mancos Brewing, 484 Hwy 160 E. Frontage Rd.
Sober Dance Party alcohol and weed free, Fri., March 14, 7 p.m., American Legion Hall, 878 E. 2nd Ave.
“Elemental: Reimagining Wildfire” film screening and Q&A, Sat., March 15, 3 p.m., Pine River Library
Kirk James Band plays, Sat., March 15, 5-8 p.m., Weminuche Grill, 18044 CR501, Vallecito
Sound Underground EDM with Forest Thump, Dancing Arrow and Icite, Sat., March 15, 9:30 p.m., The Subterrain, 922 Main Ave., Ste. F March 6, 2025 n 13
FreeWillAstrology
by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The world’s darkest material is Vantablack. This superblack coating absorbs 99.96% of visible light, creating a visual void. It has many practical applications, like improving the operation of telescopes, infrared cameras and solar panels. I propose we make Vantablack your symbol of power in the coming weeks. It will signify that an apparent void or absence in your life might actually be a fertile opportunity. An ostensible emptiness may be full of potential.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Among their many sensational qualities, rivers have the power to create through demolition and revision. Over the centuries, they erode rock and earth, making canyons and valleys. Their slow and steady transformative energy can be an inspiration to you in the coming months, You, too, will be able to accomplish wonders through the strength of your relentless persistence – and through your resolute insistence that some old approaches will need to be eliminated to make way for new dispensations.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Centuries before European sailors ventured across the seas, Polynesians were making voyages around the South Pacific. Their navigations didn’t use compasses but relied on analyzing ocean swells, star configurations, and wind patterns. I bring their genius to your attention, because I believe you are gaining access to new ways to read and understand your environment. Subtleties that weren’t previously clear to you are becoming so. Your perceptual powers seem to be growing, and so is your sensitivity to clues from below the visible surface of things. Your intuition is synergizing with your logical mind.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Maeslant Barrier is a gigantic, movable barricade designed to prevent flooding of the Dutch port of Rotterdam. It’s deployed when storms generate surges that need to be repelled. I think we all need metaphorical versions of this protective fortification, with its balance of vigilance and timely flexibility. Do you have such psychic structures in place? Now would be a good time to ensure that you have them, and they’re working properly. A key factor is knowing that you don’t need to keep all your defenses raised to the max at all times. Rather, you need to sense when it’s crucial to assert limits and boundaries – and when it’s safe and right to allow the flow of connection and opportunity.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The authentic alchemists of medieval times were not foolishly hoping to transmute cheap metals into gold. In fact, their goal was to change the wounded, ignorant, unripe qualities of their psyches into beautiful, radiant aspects. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to do such magic. Life will provide you with help and inspiration as you try to brighten your shadows. We all need to do this challenging work, Leo! Now is one of your periodic chances to do it really well.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Cosmic rhythms are authorizing you to be extra demanding in the coming days – as long as you are not frivolous, rude or unreasonable. You have permission to ask for bigger and better privileges that you have previously felt were beyond your grasp. You should assume you have finally earned rights you had not fully earned before now. My advice is to be discerning about how you wield this extra power. Don’t waste it on trivial or petty matters. Use it to generate significant adjustments that will change your life for the better.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In North America, starlings are an invasive species introduced from Europe in the 19th century. They are problematic, competing with native species for resources. They can damage crops and spread diseases that affect livestock. Yet starlings also create the breathtakingly beautiful marvel known as a murmuration. They make mesmerizing, ever-shifting patterns in the sky while moving as one cohesive unit. We all have starling-like phenomena in our lives – people, situations and experiences that arouse deeply paradoxical responses, that we both enjoy and disapprove of. The coming weeks will be prime time to transform and evolve your relationships with these things. It’s unwise to sustain the status quo. I’m not necessarily advising you to banish them –simply change your connection.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Buildings and walls in the old Incan city of Machu Picchu feature monumental stone blocks that fit together precisely. You can’t slip a piece of paper between them. Most are irregularly shaped and weigh many tons. Whoever constructed these prodigious structures benefited from massive amounts of ingenuity and patience. I invite you to summon some of the same blend of diligence and brilliance as you work on your growing masterpiece in the coming weeks and months. My prediction: What you create in 2025 will last a very long time.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Bioluminescence is light emitted from living creatures. They don’t reflect the light of the sun or moon but produce it themselves. Fireflies do it and so do glow-worms and certain fungi. If you go to Puerto Rico’s Mosquito Bay, you may also spy the glimmer of marine plankton known as dinoflagellates. The best time to see them show what they can do is on a cloudy night during a new moon, when the deep murk reveals their full power. I believe their glory is a good metaphor for you in coming days. Your beauty will be most visible and your illumination most valuable when the darkness is at a peak.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn-born Shah Jahan I was the Emperor of Hindustan from 1628-58. During his reign, he commissioned the Taj Mahal, a magnificent building complex to honor his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. This spectacular “jewel of Islamic art” is still a major tourist attraction. In the spirit of Shah Jahan’s adoration, I invite you to dream and scheme about expressing your devotion to what you love. What stirs your heart and nourishes your soul? Find tangible ways to celebrate and fortify your deepest passions.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): More than 2,100 years ago, Greek scientists created an analog computer that could track astronomical movements and events decades in advance. Referred to now as the Antikythera mechanism, it was a unique, groundbreaking invention. Similar machines didn’t appear again until Europe in the 14th century. If it’s OK with you, I will compare you with the Antikythera mechanism. Why? You are often ahead of your time with your innovative approaches. People may regard you as complex, inscrutable or unusual, when in fact you are simply alert for and homing in on future developments. These qualities of yours will be especially needed in the coming weeks and months.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): No cars drove through London’s streets in 1868. That invention was still years away. But the roads were crammed with pedestrians and horses. To improve safety amidst the heavy traffic, a mechanical traffic light was installed – the first in the world. But it had a breakdown a month later and was discontinued. Traffic lights didn’t become common for 50 years after that. I believe your imminent innovations will have better luck and good timing. Unlike the premature traffic signal, your creations and improvements will have the right context to succeed. Don’t be shy about pushing your good ideas! They could revamp the daily routine.
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