Weekly Report from Boulder
Interesting week last week - a friend moving to another state, a friend with a new baby, a friend getting married. Life is just full of transitions isn't it? It always interests me how people handle the communications, some just do it better than others. So am I really invited to the wedding when I haven't heard from the bride herself but her mother? And do I really want to be in Long Island in the middle of the summer?

Tuesday night I went out with a group of friends to catch Star Wars. It was fun, though I think the allure is missing from the very first film. Of course Lucas still holds on to the most dramatic special effects for himself and the opening sequence was amazing! But after a while their ability to have lots of activity in the background became annoying, just because you can have caucophony and constant motion doesn't mean you have to. Our favorite line, of course, was the "Either you are with us, or you are with the enemy!" I look forward to then getting my own "Darth Dubya" or "W is a Sith" bumper-sticker.

The weekend was spent up in the mountains, where it was actually warmer than Boulder! But the tulips are still going strong and the lilacs and flowering trees in bloom. I got in some bike rides in the morning, enjoying some new and improved bike trails, returning home just before the rain hit. Then out to lunch with mom, an afternoon nap and some reading, and an evening walk in between thunderstorms. All in all very restful and enjoyable. So much better than last year when it was snowing up there! Back in Boulder I came into town along Broadway to see throngs of people ahead. I'd left early hoping to avoid the I-70 crowds, not thinking about the crowds in town after the Bolder Boulder. Everywhere people were wandering around with their little orange bags. I cut east and away from the throngs to be greeted by the sight of truckload after truckload of port-a-potties heading south.

Elaine C. Erb. KGNU Music Director. <º))))><
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