Category Archives: Responses

Responses: How will we live tomorrow?

  How will we live tomorrow? “People should be more radical. Libertarian radicalism is where we need to go. We need to rethink the basic concepts of our society: private property, money, debt. I just finished reading Debt: The First … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Cheryl and Paul Lee, Ghost Ranch NM

This is Cheryl Lee’s eleventh visit to Ghost Ranch; Paul’s first. They aren’t enrolled in any workshops; they parked their vintage teardrop trailer in the campground and are enjoying the place without an itinerary. Cheryl is a pleinair watercolorist. She … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Joey Patemko Taos NM

Joey Patemko and I are hitchhiking buddies. When I arrived at his place, five miles south of Taos Plaza, he told me two other couchsurfers were staying that night. They wanted to take him out to dinner so we were … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Carol Wildman, Taos Landscaping, Taos NM

“A lawn is the cheapest landscape to install, even here.” I am disappointed to hear Carol Wildman of Taos Landscaping say this. “But it’s the most expensive to maintain.” Taos Landscaping is a xeriscape design and construction firm Carol purchased … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Buddy Lane La Veta, CO

Buddy Lane was a project manager for a residential construction company in the Dallas Metroplex. Every few years he would build a house for himself, sell it after the short-term capital gains period, invest the profit, and build another. “I … Continue reading

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Responses: How will we live tomorrow?

How will we live tomorrow? “Increasingly, people will look to the stars and the earth. We will continue to look for our escape to space but we will find our solutions. I think the technology exists to address our challenges; … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Lilly Wakim and Kyle Anibas, Colorado Springs CO

I haven’t met anyone in my travels who embraces her work with the unabated joy Lilly Wakim has for her job – as a dentist. Lilly (and her two dogs) met Kyle Arriba (and his black lab puppy) at a … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Jonise Roberts, Place Bridge Academy Denver CO

Whenever I meet someone from Haiti, even for the first time, it feels like a reunion. There’s a sympathetic sensibility that bonds all of us who’ve come to love The Magic Island and its people. Jonise Robert’s father received political … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Ellie Bontrager, Limon, CO

Ellie Bontrager is a lovely person and great conversationalist. I arrived at her house with a flat tire; one of those pesky Prairie burrs had lodged in my front tire. She sat on the patio where the horizontal sun still … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Justin Eagleboy, Burlington CO

Justin Eagleboy represents the traditional values of the American West better than anyone I’ve met in a cowboy hat. Justin and his three sisters were home schooled in western Colorado. His mother died when he was eleven. Their mother’s death … Continue reading

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