In recent years, courageous leaders in the high country have taken bold steps to address a crisis that impacts us each and all. In 2022, NWCCOG will highlight those efforts and encourage action in other communities. I’m talking about a suite of issues known as Behavioral Health which includes all Read more…
Gone underground every one The past 18 months of COVID pandemic triggered structural changes to our workforce. The mystery may have overtaken housing for what is top-of-mind among those in our region and across the country, which is saying something. It seems everyone has an anecdote or a theory. Here Read more…
It was a great weekend in Western Colorado. Sunshine. Crisp air. Small towns. Big mountains. Public lands. No rangers. Narrow roads. Few guardrails. No cops. In the first minutes of our trip on I-70, a state patrol pulled over someone in front of us. After we turned off at Minturn, Read more…
Crisis in the Canyon – Project THOR team proud to Provide Public Safety fix in a pinch We may need to get used to re-routing our trips that involve the canyon because with burn scars and rainfall, we cannot rely on a single route through the mountains. The same is Read more…
If the past 18 months threw off your balance, and external uncertainty left a low-grade anxiety lingering across your organization, maybe you should re-consider your collective work habits. I’m reading Cal Newport’s A World Without Email concurrently with a virtual 8 -week mindfulness course. I highly recommend both to reconnect Read more…
Were you on a Town Board that made decisions, hundreds or perhaps thousands of them including those many decisions-within-a-decision? If you remained in town, have you encountered impacts from your decisions? Some decisions I recollect vividly—that vote on the leash law after 3 packed public hearings. Others leave me wondering Read more…
(From March 2021 NWCCOG Newsletter — From the Director’s Desk) I’ve recently written letters to both of my children and read them aloud expressing how grateful I am to each for who they are and what they’ve brought to my life. The exercise was more impactful than I expected. Even Read more…
The suffering from COVID entered our house, bringing a perspective to national issues along with it. My 21-year old son contracted COVID in late September with minimal impact. Within a month a progressively severe outbreak of ulcerative colitis set in, and then myocarditis, which he experienced like a heart attack. Read more…
I am not a big fan of celebrations, especially those which arbitrarily mark a beginning or end, but in this year the familiarity of a closure ritual, especially one that gives some kind of personal reboot, is absolutely vital to our mental health. So, during one of the longest, coldest Read more…
On a solo hiking trip in the desert the last week of October, I shared 5 hours in a middle school gym in Kanab, Utah with over 100 other COVID-masked travelers hoping to get permission to enter one hike on my list. After hiking with friends in the San Rafael Read more…