Sweet Home, Colorado!

Attending the magical Telluride Bluegrass Festival served to reinforce the reasons we are returning to the Columbine State. Being among a host of kindred minds refreshed and revived the soul while taking some of the sting out of being human. I learned today that Clark County is going after another of its employees, threatening to terminate on the basis of an on-the-job injury. Of course, that’s illegal, and once an attorney enters the picture the county will recant, but you can bet it wouldn’t until the employee retains legal counsel. This is in such stark contrast to the estimated 10,000 souls who congregated for four days of festivities. Anything could be left on your staked out tarp while you went elsewhere and it was still there when you came back. There was not a hint of competition in the pure Colorado air, just a spirit of cooperation that could easily pass for love. The most rejuvenating aspect of the event for me was the realization that people can get along, we can live together in harmony. “But that was only for four days” may say the cynics, but it was evidence enough for me that being intentional about loving one another, one day at a time, can work!