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2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report.

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2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,900 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the complete report.

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To sleep, perchance to dream, an ancient life

Prize winning short fiction. And yet, I'm still working on that first novel. Never give up.

1st Place, Inside Outside Southwest and Images Short Fiction Contest, 2004 Catori slept. Her afternoon nap was an almost daily ritual since the car accident. On this day, her fingers were delicately folded around a piece of broken pottery, no more than an inch wide, its shape indicative of a bowl – white on the outside, an ornate geometric black and white pattern painted gracefully on the…

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15 Artists at Kirkland Museum Not Radical At All

I found this post. It's one of my favorites and I hadn't put it on my website. Enjoy. Go see the new Kirkland Museum in Denver.

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Whole Lotta Love

May 03, 2022 03:48PM ● By Leanne Goebel https://www.beaconseniornews.com/2022/05/03/399448/whole-lotta-love Martha Ditto, cellist Robert Plant blew her kisses when she toured with him and Jimmy Page. But she deflected those kisses, preferring the kiss of the bow on the strings of her cello.  Martha Ditto played with the Led Zeppelin duo on their No Quarter Tour in 1995. The tour included a…

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We have a commitment issue

We have a commitment issue

It’s time to make a commitment to one another: To our neighbors; to our coworkers; to the stranger on the sidewalk and the person with an opposing political party sign in their yard; even the “friend” on Facebook or Twitter who can only argue and disagree. 

Commitment means dedication, loyalty, and devotion. A commitment is an agreement, a contract, a responsibility, and a promise. A…

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The Art of Change from Aspen Magazine Summer 2017

The Art of Change from Aspen Magazine Summer 2017

LAND & SEA ART Aspen artist Celia Gregory fuses her love of nature with community.

When designing the Aspen Institute during the mid 1950s, Herbert Bayer honored the Bauhaus philosophy of merging design and the living world in one holistic creation. But it is Bayer’s earthen works, “Earth Mound” (or “Grass Mound”) and “Marble Garden,” created a decade ahead of the land art movement of the…

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Six Artists, Six Perspectives from Aspen Magazine - Elizabeth Ferrill

Six Artists, Six Perspectives from Aspen Magazine – Elizabeth Ferrill

Six Artists, Six Perspectives

By Leanne Goebel & Steve Alldredge | Photo: Karl Wolfgang | July 11, 2016

Six emerging artists from Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, exploring various disciplines, are defining what it means to be an artist today.

Unveiling Light: Growing up in the moody climes of the Pacific Northwest, Ferrill’s work is a quest for luminosity through geometric patterns and…

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Six Artists, Six Perspectives from Aspen Magazine - Ajax Axe

Six Artists, Six Perspectives from Aspen Magazine – Ajax Axe

Six Artists, Six Perspectives

By Leanne Goebel & Steve Alldredge | Photo: Karl Wolfgang | July 11, 2016

Six emerging artists from Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, exploring various disciplines, are defining what it means to be an artist today.

Totem and Taboo: Axe’s sculptures and mixed-media works coalesce her experiences abroad and her leaning toward anthropology, world religions and…

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Six Artists, Six Perspectives from Aspen Magazine - Brian Colley

Six Artists, Six Perspectives from Aspen Magazine – Brian Colley

Six Artists, Six Perspectives

By Leanne Goebel & Steve Alldredge | Photo: Karl Wolfgang | July 11, 2016

Six emerging artists from Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, exploring various disciplines, are defining what it means to be an artist today.

Unexpected Realities: For Colley, whimsy, humor and the absurd take center stage.

BRIAN COLLEY It wasn’t until he moved to the Roaring Fork Valley…

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The Spanish-Navajo Jewelry Connection from Aug/Sep 2015 issue of Cowboys & Indians magazine

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Ray Tracey profile, Cowboys & Indians, Oct. 2015

Ray Tracey profile, Cowboys & Indians, Oct. 2015

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Arizona-born and Hollywood-tested, this Navajo jewelry artist plies his trade all the way to Tokyo.

Making jewelry isn’t just a form of financial support for world-renowned artist Ray Tracey. It’s a form of ceremony. Every element in his designs symbolizes a spiritual connection or belief. Every piece has been a centering outlet for his…