Spectrum

Color packed particles circulating above, meticulously organized. Double the refraction, twice the gold?

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Faded

Absence of color vanishing into night, humming silence.

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Breakthrough

Effortless refractions glide to earth, touching meadows and mountains alike. Challenged to be consistent in an ever changing environment—allowing epiphanies to abound.

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Multifaceted

Transposing images onto silk and canvas bags is fun, cool, and has never been easier. Bagettes.com custom photo bags make any image a utilitarian work of art.

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Data Complex

Artistic collaboration, creative inspiration, intriguing sounds. A couple jumpsuits and some tattoo arm sleeves enhancing the illusion. Beat machine take me away…

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Storm

Ominous energy ignited electricity. Rolling, roaring, internal organ shaking growls vibrating the atmosphere. Screaming wind, listening trees, enduring nature.

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Ghost Town

In the spring of 1880 two prospectors, Charles B. Culver and W.F. Coxhead left the mining boomtown of Leadville in search of silver deposits in the Castle Creek Valley. Originally known as Castle Forks City and then Chloride until 1882, it was a mining town located ten miles (16 km) south of Aspen, Colorado. Together the men formed a Miners’ Protective Association, built a courthouse and laid out the streets in just two weeks. The town was renamed Ashcroft in 1882 after a rich ore strike was uncovered in Montezuma and Tam O’Shanter Mines.

Home to two newspapers, a school, sawmills, and a small smelter, by 1885 the town was home to about 3,500 people, had six hotels and 20 saloons. By the turn of the 20th century, only a handful of aging, single men lived in Ashcroft. Though they all owned mining claims they spent most of their time fishing and hunting or reading and drinking in a local bar. The town’s last resident, Jack Leahy, died in 1939, making Ashcroft an official ghost town.

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Open Air

Puffy cumulonimbus lurkers, gliding by without attachment.

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Peace

Guns were made to kill. Anyone find it interesting that government mass murder has been carried out throughout history, almost always immediately following the disarmament of the public?

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Wish Grantor

At the age of 12 in 1985 I wrote: If I had a wish grantor I would wish to be the smartest person in the world. My five reasons are 1) I would make a solution to get rid of pollution 2) I would stop nuclear waste 3) I would help people that are starving 4) I would clean all the cities with my super-duper robots and 5) I would make a space ship that could fly to any planet. What is your wish and why?

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Continue

When the pressure of life exceeds the speed limit —yet there is no ticket in sight. Shortcuts are not always shorter.

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Pawn of Choice

Inevitability abounds. Have you ever felt like you’re being played? There is an agenda and like it or not, you are a part of it either consciously or unconsciously. Let’s agree the powers that be are decidedly watching, waiting, and anticipating. The time is approaching and the choice becomes more clear by the second.

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Path

Alteration of momentum, accelerate, always another way, alternatives, ancient wisdom innate.

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Insight

“A journal is an instrument of awareness through which we can watch what we do so we can find out who we are.” ~Mary Morrison

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Humble

One of those events in life that makes you think twice and choose a new path. Hold your children when they cry, teach them to be present and explain why.

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Elect to Pick

This fall you know what time it is—time to pick. Will you pick a Republican or a Democrat, an Obama or a Romney…or will you opt Independent? Perhaps you will write-in your favorite celeb? Regardless, you know the old saying you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your —- awww you know the rest.

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Yellow

Feeling color, glowing aura of life.
Non-adjustable, real life saturation.
Intricacies of biology, leafy vein.
Naturally occurring connectivity.

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Clouds

Fascination with constant movement and change, light refracting filtered skies. Shifting from a seemingly static landscape to a swirl of nature.

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Hundredth Monkey

Unidentified scientists were conducting a study of macaque monkeys on the Japanese island of Koshima in 1952. These scientists observed that some of these monkeys learned to wash sweet potatoes, and gradually this new behavior spread through the younger generation of monkeys—in the usual fashion, through observation and repetition. The researchers observed that once a critical number of monkeys was reached—the so-called hundredth monkey—this previously learned behavior instantly spread across the water to monkeys on nearby islands. Popularized by Ken Keyes, Jr. his publication The Hundredth Monkey —his book was about the devastating effects of nuclear war on the planet. Keyes presented the hundredth monkey effect story as an inspirational parable, applying it to human society and the effecting of positive change.

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Redstone

Redstone was established in the late 19th century industrialist John Cleveland Osgood as part of a coal mining enterprise. As an experiment in “enlightened industrial paternalism,” Osgood constructed 84 cottages and a 40-room inn, all with indoor plumbing and electricity, for his coal miners and cokers, as well as modern bathhouse facilities, a club house with a library and a theatre, as well as a school. In addition, Osgood built an opulent 42-room Tudor-style mansion, commonly called “Redstone Castle” for his second wife, Swedish Countess Alma Regina Shelgrem. The Castle was part of a 72-acre estate that also included servants’ quarters, a gamekeeper’s lodge, a carriage house and a greenhouse.

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Weinerstube

Every Sunday growing up my family would go to the best breakfast place in Aspen, the Weinerstube. As children we would always giggle at the name and say it in our best German accent “VeenerShhhttubb”. Today this building is gone, along with all the cheeky waitresses’ who would always wear a dirndl. What is your favorite breakfast joint?

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Sky

Empty pixels buzz and swirl in the loud heat of the day. Without judgement form emerges moving at speed, real time channeling from within. The mind wiped clean, purity of expression allowed to gush, if only for a moment.

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Tone

Resonating with that which surrounds us —thoughts attracting dreams becoming reality. Color sets the mood, a pause to appreciate existence, if only to oneself. Are you raising your vibration? What means do you recommend?

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Wounds

After treating a few small cuts on my legs with both colloidal silver and organic virgin coconut oil they were a fraction of their original size the next day. Without making any claims, I must say I’ve found something significant in the combination of these two. Do your own research of course, but in the meantime it doesn’t hurt to try something new. Or you may have known about this for sometime now? If so do tell!

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Basket of Sun

Drifting towards another universe, tugging at the axis, the shift will be vast yet imperceptible. Will we loose the life-giving warmth of the sun and enter another ice age?

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Independence Pass

A twisted road with perilous curves carves its way over the Continental Divide. Pausing at the top to take a deep breath of crisp pure air, then the ascent to the town of Twin Lakes... if you have the means I highly recommend the journey.

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Main Street

Ahhh, the calm before the storm...tomorrow this street will be packed with a proud parade of old timers, hula-hoopers, costumed dogs, and who knows what else?

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An Amour

Loyal faith blessed light, struggle might suffer fight, free strife moving light, soul spirt and sprite, open truth dignity right, seek peace teach life, honor calm conscious right, liberty moonlight. Rhyme change season night, reason wait time might, bend brake bright.

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Poem from RARE BIRD by Trevi Bennett

Blue

Clear skies or deep ocean, a favorite color no doubt. If you are “blue” it should mean you are bright, clear, and deep…ok, from here on out, that’s what it means. I’ve never seen a sky mope around or the ocean feel uncomfortable in its saltiness. No more worshipping in the “House of You” — step outside the door and see the vastness of that which is.

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