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Susan Andrews Art

Susan Andrews was drawn to painting early on through her mother’s artistic endeavors, the natural world, and cinema. These influences have factored prominently in defining her style. She depicts animals in close personal terms that force the viewer to experience wildlife in its purest form. Susan is a graduate of Pikes Peak Community College. Currently, she’s working on a […]

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Ten Reasons to Participate in Your Local Storytelling Community

Storytelling will always be there for our pleasure and edification. It’s an immediate, shared, and unforgettable experience. Here are ten reasons to participate in your local storytelling community. Verbal storytelling is a slowly dying art. It’s like handwriting and mail correspondence. It used to be a way of spreading history and teaching lessons, building memory,

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Making a Way When There Is No Way: Three Generations of the Stroud Family in Colorado Springs

The First Generation 1910: K.D. and Lulu Reverend Kimbal Dolphus Stroud, pastor, teacher, Langston University graduate, appreciated living in Oklahoma territory. His wife, Lulu, was a member of the Creek Indian tribe and minorities had opportunities not often found elsewhere. But when Oklahoma became a state in 1907, segregation moved in. This was not the

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Ten Reasons Why Small Dogs Are the Best Dogs

Who says bigger is better? While most Americans seem to prefer the larger breeds—hunting dogs, guard dogs, herding dogs, and working dogs—I’m a cheerleader for companion breeds. And the smaller, the better. Why, I wonder, do they always come in last in the popularity contests? Is it a holdover from our rural history, when Timmy

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Silent Mirrors: The Art of Listening

Human beings have expended so much energy filling the world with thoughts and ideas that have reverberated down through time in both equal parts profane and profound—talking, talking, and talking while all along we’ve been accompanied on this journey through the ages by the silence of the animals. They’ve been swept into the current of

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