‘The second homes literally brought us out from under ourselves. Discourage second homeowners; they will destroy your community. On a one by one basis, they’re nice people and they don’t intend to destroy your community. They’re here because you’ve got the characters and the artisans and the people in shorts and climbing gear, even though they couldn’t climb their own coffee table. They want to be part of the experience.’
~ Former Aspen City Councilman Joe Edwards
‘Truckee is alive and well in…Sierraville.’
Bumper sticker circulating
‘The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capriciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment’s hesitation to crush beauty and life, molding them into money.’
~ Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1913.
‘If Lake Tahoe ain’t heaven, then heaven can wait.’
~ Fro fighting for his life
‘There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.’
~ Howard Thurman, educator and theologian
Downward
Downward
glistening snowflakes fall
with no other place to go
no matter how fast or slow
chilling is the wind that blows
Without a curb
the dim moon devotes itself to another nights birth
in an umbra, an owl is heard
hallowing whoo’s
in the moonlight, sparkling snow dances
to the bird of the night’s blues
Silently
virgin snow scatters everywhere, and endlessly
untouched and pure it lies peacefully
till the morning light that grows
then creatures of the countryside will wander in it to and fro.
By Sherri-Lynn Laboissonniere
