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Watch where you’re going

Thought for the Day

Watch where you’re going… Sound familiar? Your mother told you this. (And you probably ignored it, as I did.). Breaking my ankle emphasized the wisdom of watching what I do. And the big lesson of 2020 is — that advice works in all aspects of our lives.

It’s not just the cement path we need to watch. […]

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Mister Rogers in the workplace

People, Things to Know

If Mister Rogers knew Taz Romine-Mann, he’d probably consider him a kindred spirit.

Taz’s job was to move a major solar company’s operations to the Sun Valley neighborhood in Denver. Sun Valley is a primarily residential, inner-city neighborhood. It’s culturally diverse, home of Blacks, Hispanics, Ethiopians, Middle Easterners, and more, and it’s close knit. It’s […]

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Left wing/Right wing – Are they what they seem?

Things to Know, Thought for the Day

I wondered – why are the political parties called “left” and “right? Does it have something to do with left brain/right brain thinking? Our right brains are the creative side, the left is more methodical, more linear. Turns out, brains do have something to do with it — something I was surprised to find out.

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Triumphing over Trauma

People

“It’s been a few years, and I’m still processing all the horrors and trauma I saw when I was working with MSF,” Karen Stewart said. That’s Médecins Sans Frontières, Doctors Without Borders to us in the U.S. But foreign traumas weren’t the only ones she experienced.

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Focusing on your ancestors has a downside

Thought for the Day

She stands there – a 40ish woman, dressed in slim jeans and what looks like her best matching denim top. “I wanted to know who I am,” she says, looking straight at the camera. The “am” sounds pleading. She’s looking to her ancestors to define who she is.

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Talk, shoes, mushrooms. What is art?

People

The art of conversation used to be judged by the quality of what was said. Now, it seems, just having a conversation is considered art. At least by the Denver Art Museum and Denver artist Viviane Le Courtois.

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She’s swum a long way, baby

People

When Lauren Havens was 12 she showed up at the pool to join the junior high boys water polo team in Beverly Hills, CA. It was 1975. Her brother played, but girls didn’t really play water polo. And certainly girls didn’t coach it. That was then.

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What makes Jeff Hart run?

People

When he was growing up in Denver in the ‘60s, Jeff Hart and his fellow Boomers used to say, “Don’t trust the man.” “The man” was politicians, corporations, government, and institutions of all kinds. Then Hart became “the man.” With a twist.

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On aging: caring communication counts

People

We all at least hope to get old. And, when this happens, we usually lose some of our mental and physical abilities. This leads friends, relatives, and caretakers to view us in a new light – one that can be disconcerting.

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Being Jan Ehrlichman – Watergate and beyond

People

In 1976, Jan was 23, slim, blonde, athletic, a talented pianist, fresh out of Principia College. She’d had a privileged upbringing, she’d even met presidents. To use a phrase popular at the time, the world was her oyster – or should have been.

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