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X-Games 12 in Aspen

Can you find the snowmobile?

Eek-a-mouse

momma

LUSH

Deep Dish

Deep Dish at the Belly Up

Hey PATO!

Pato Banton at the Belly Up

on the job

Xavier Rudd

Xavier Rudd played the Belly Up the other night and it was the best concert I've seen there yet. Every Australian in Aspen was there seeing as how Xavier Rudd is from Australia. Such a great show, what a surprise. It's hard to really describe what he plays really because he's a multi-instrumentalist. Everything from digerdoos to slide guitar to bongos and back and all at once in harmony together. Check this guy out, http://www.xavierrudd.com/.


Mom's coming to town Sunday so I'm making plans. We are all very excited to see Mom.

Good friends, if you would cultivate imperturbability, just whenever you see people, do not see their right or wrong, good or bad, faults or troubles; then your own nature is immovable. Good friends, even though the bodies of deluded people be immobile, yet when they open their mouths to speak of the right and wrong, strengths and weaknesses, good and bad of other people, they turn away from the path. If you cling to mind or cling to purity, this veils the truth.
What is called sitting meditation? In this way there is no obstruction, no impediment. When outwardly, in the midst of all pleasant or unpleasant realms, thoughts do not arise in the mind, this is called “sitting.” Inwardly to see that one’s own nature does not move is called “meditation.”

- Hui-neng (638-713)

fourteen feet and still snowing

Simao giving Ana Rita free snowboarding lessons. It only took 3 1/2 hours to almost do one run. Kudo's to Simao for his patience. Brisa and I didn;t last more than ten-minutes.

The Winterschul Snow Carving Festival

find Brisa.

Tada!

Pat Green and his Texas Country Come to Belly Up

The Ritz-Carlton Club at Aspen Highlands

local flavor

As it turns out Andy Goldsworthy, one of my favorite living artists, is fond of Aspen too. Rumor has it he has a house out here too, but that part I’m not sure of. He was commissioned to build a wall at the Aspen Institute here in Aspen a few years ago, and ever since December 24th the Institute has been showing an exhibit with a number of projects he did in the surrounding area while he worked on the wall. The Aspen Institute (http://www.aspeninstitute.org) is a sort of mountain think-tank that prides itself on being the cultural center of the valley. It hosts all sorts of lectures, seminars, and other events.

The exhibit is called “Two Creeks” because most of the works are done on two creeks. One is Woody Creek, which is just down the valley, and the other is Hunter Creek, which is right out the balcony! In fact, we live in the Hunter Creek condominiums, literally right up against Hunter Creek. When it isn’t frozen we can open the window and go to sleep to the sound of Hunter Creek from our bedroom.

I learned all this today when I went to see the exhibit and the wall for the first time. The wall you can’t really see because it’s covered in the 33” of snow we’ve received in the past 48 hours, but you can still kind of make it out. If you look to the back you can see the runs on Ajax Mountain too.

Christmas Photos

Aspen 2008 New Years

Happy New Year Everybody.