Reading and Rambling

Books read: Saturday by Ian McEwan China in Ten Words by Yu Hua Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer Trails walked: Brainard Lake snowshoe loop near Ward (April 7th) East/West Valley Loop in Lory State Park near Fort Collins (April 15th) Mondragon Loop near Taos, NM (April 23rd) Green Mountain to Bear Canyon near Boulder (April 29th) Song(s) of the month:  Paradise by John Prine Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell Motherland by Natalie Merchant.   April Summary: This past April included the 55th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22nd.  That first Earth Day in 1970 saw 20 million people around the US set out to protest environmental destruction and to clean up some parks while they were at it.   The EPA was established a few months later, followed by the Clean Air and Clean Water acts.  Today hundreds of millions of people around the world celebrate Earth Day i...

Books read: The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham Things That Can and Cannot Be Said by John Cusack and Arundhati Roy Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy Woloson Trails walked: Devisadero loop near Taos (March 2nd) Mount Sanitas/Lion's Lair loop (March 10th) Eagle Wind loop near Lyons (March 13th) Song(s) of the month: Oh What a Beautiful World by Rodney Crowell and Light Shine by Jessi Colin Young March Summary: What a month this was! The biggest and best news was that our fourth grandchild was born in good health. But it didn’t come easy. His mother (our daughter-in-law) had a serious pregnancy condition called Placenta Accreta Spectrum, and it turned out to be the most serious on the spectrum (Percreta). Once the baby was delivered via C-section, then a harrowing, life threatening operation was performed. It lasted 4 hours. The hospital in Denver (Presbyterian-St. Lukes) is one of the best facilities in the coun...