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In his quiet work “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen,” Mark Nepo writes about percussionist Evelyn Glennie who is “profoundly deaf.”
Nepo explains Glennie “lives the rhythms and feels the vibrations of the music, not instead of hearing but as the foundation of all hearing.”
It is our insistence that feeling and hearing, like the other senses, are distinct functions and not integrated that causes our dissonance.

If you took a social studies class in the past 30 years, there’s no way you could avoid knowing chapter and verse about McCarthyism, J. Edgar Hoover’s abuses at the FBI, and President Nixon’s “enemies list.”
 The paranoid abuse of government power in the latter half of the last century led to a healthy skepticism of federal leadership, and justifiably so. While corruption itself is nothing new, it became more visible in the television era. Today we rightfully look at those events as low points in American history.

Camping will be permitted at the Idaho Springs baseball fields during the Clear Creek Rapid Grass Music Festival on July 5-6. 

The city council’s unanimous June 10 decision is a first for the city. Idaho Springs currently prohibits outdoor sleeping and camping on public property, except in designated areas. 

Keep your Uzis and other rapid-fire, mass-loaded weaponry. They’re mere toys. Deadly ones, to be sure, but in the symbolic sense, they’re laughable. Guns and an arsenal-level cache cannot prevent the kind of subtle, inch-by-inch erosion of Americans’, as Ben Franklin called them, “essential liberties.”

The final surrender will come not in a form of an OK Corral-like showdown, but with a whimper from fear-filled, knee-knocking Americans begging their government to “protect” them.