Lindsay Deen is a US Represented columnist who works to create activism and conversation in the Colorado Springs community. As an artist, educator, and supporter of many causes, she wants to see her home town blossom and thrive economically and socially. Her philosophy: "Let's agree to disagree and find compromises." She knows no one is ever happy with their portion of the pie, but at least everyone gets something in a compromise.
I’m smoking, The burning trail choking Deep lungs groping For the nicotine fix It poisons my lips And keeps callers at a distance. My most faithful lover Your smell stays on my lips Long after our last kiss No matter how hard I try keep telling you goodbye You keep coming back And I keep letting You back into my life It’s like I’m your wife. Most nights Against twilight
Recently, I visited a local haunted house, and it was absolutely fantastic. I screamed my lungs out and experienced a great range of emotion, witnessed some spectacular costumes, and got to watch others express themselves freely in a way only available in such houses of fear, awe, and weirdness. I highly recommend haunted houses for every one of the ten reasons I’ve detailed below. 1. Setting the mood. Haunted houses
I sat at Arceo’s Mexican Restaurant on South Nevada in Colorado Springs, facing my good friend Eric after struggling through a dismal weekend I needed to put behind me. I glanced down at the menu briefly, already knowing what I wanted. I ordered chicken con chipotle, my dish of choice no matter where I go, how I change, or what I do, and here are ten reasons why. 1. I will
For me, the act of writing is like drinking from a tinted blue glass filled with clear, cold water, the sides of the glass condensation-streaked with ice shards clinking against the heat of a summer day. The experience is waxing organic, like a growth in the soul. Phrases appear as exotic plant sprouts, joining together in a garden of mind-babble and intentional awareness where each thought is a separate and
For me, the machinations of the machine we call “American politics” seemed like nothing so much as an overrated reality television show starring criminals and people fully indoctrinated into a failing two-party system. I really didn’t see how I could make a difference with my vote, and I didn’t think it was even worth voting. Then I discovered a really amazing aspect of our political system. The local governments in
“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” from A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry’s protean form encompasses many
