I’ve spent the last fifty years or so writing songs, performing them, trying to sell them, all without the slightest financial reward. Well, I overstate – back in the early 1980s, I played many paying gigs with a small group, Toy Boat. In 1982, Toy Boat had had two extended gigs at a Westside club […]
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The following poem was written by one of the Move Mountains Project: San Luis participants, Ayla. She wrote this during a poetry workshop. With her permission, we have reprinted it here. Thank you, Ayla, for sharing your poetry and your soul with us. ——————————– My Water Poem By Ayla I am water And I come
From Colorado Springs, get on I-25. Drive south. After roughly 2 1/2 hours, near the New Mexico border, lies the oldest town in Colorado, San Luis. Roughly 700 people live San Luis, and despite the rich history and culture of the area, the population continues to decline as youths leave a home their ancestors loved and cherished to seek fortune, education,
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As creators of our lives, we all have the innate capacity to build, inform, move, transform, and deeply touch others. The teachers and artists who went to San Luis for the Move Mountains Project, teaching, sharing, and encouraging students to express themselves, are a special group of people. Although I only caught the tail end of the Move Mountains Project: San
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