From the monthly archives:

June 2009

The Queen in the Well – An Original Fairy Tale

June 24, 2009

By Sydney Solis Once upon a time there was a Queen who lived in a castle. The castle was deep in a vast forest, surrounded by a great garden sitting high up on a mountaintop. The castle, however, was in ill-repair. Where once a well flowed with wine, it was now dry. Where once a [...]

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Svadyaya and Narrative Therapy

June 16, 2009

I went to the season finale of Boulder’s Playback Theatre West last Saturday with some old high school friends. It was an outrageous evening in which four actors improv your life’s stories. The audience will tell something simple, such as how a garage sale went, to something deeper, such as nervousness about going into high [...]

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Focus on Humanistic Pursuits Rather than Profit

June 9, 2009

Congratulations to the Daily Camera for a fine piece of community journalism. http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jun/05/mexican-family-moves-boulder-fight-12-year-olds-ca/ What a story of courage to inspire us all. A middle-class Mexican family gives up everything so that their 12-year-old daughter may survive bone cancer. And the fabulous community of Boulder, Colorado steps up to help them achieve their dreams. What an inspirational [...]

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The Death of Opal

June 6, 2009

Opal the hamster has died. It was my daughter’s miniature, Chinese hamster. This thing was cute. Little kid book cute. Tiny and adorable. My daughter loved that hamster. Cleaned its cage dutifully, played with it and begged for elaborate, plastic living quarters for her. Recently, she had escaped her cage somehow. My son discovered her [...]

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