Yesterday, we got the snow we didn’t get on Monday – by 3 pm it was just a white blanket, and toe roads were clear, though a bit icy. We’re expecting more, but not until Saturday, and maybe half of what we got this time. Tomorrow we’re expecting wind – and when we get wind, we get wind. It used to scare me when I had the mini-van and needed to drive on the Interstate – I expected to be blown over at any minute. I feel much safer in the PT Cruiser, but I still don’t like driving in high winds. Fortunately, I won’t need to go anywhere this time.
Sherrilyn Ifill is a cousin of the late [IMO great] Gwen Ifill, PBS news anchor. I looked that up when we lost Gwen. Sherrilyn is a civil rights lawyer, and she can definitely write, as this post demonstrates. Many people are writing about what it’s going to be like on a second Trump** administration, mostly about what we can, or should do, and that’s important – but this post is more about how it feels. And that probably shouldn’t be ignored. After all, we have to deal with that somehow.
Colorado Public Radio’s newsletter today featured an article about Auden Schendler, VP of Sustainability at Aspen One (formerly Aspen Skiing Company, and the heaviest hitter there) who is leaving the company. By the time I got to it in my email, the story had been yanked. So, of course, it’s important. The title of the article was “Why this longtime Aspen ski executive thinks corporate sustainability is a scam,” so the yank is not surprising. Schendler has written a book called “Terrible Beauty,” which is currently available for pre-order only, and he has a personal website at this link, and also a Wikipedia page on him here,. If you scroll down past the book blurbs on his personal page, you’ll find a quote from him which is meant to be inspiring. After reading both, I am less surprised that he is leaving AspenOne than that he was hired in the first place. “Terrible Beauty” is, I suspect, a book everyone should at least know about and preferably read. Since it’s still in pre-order, I can’t be certain, but definitely the CPR article’s getting yanked suggests the importance of the book.
