Snowmass Village

[laughs] That's what I do.

It's El Jebel, Colorado, just 20 miles outside of Snowmass.

You were vacationing with your family.

I'm like, hey, man, I, I-

I mean, I hope I can be transparent in a loving and kind and helpful way.

But the way I came to Centering Prayer was I was about 10 years sober in my Alcoholics Anonymous program, and there was a gentleman who I was going to meetings with almost probably three or four, maybe even five days a week by the name of Matthew F., And Matthew had had a relationship with Thomas Keating in Snowmass, Colorado, and had moved back to St. Louis and had gotten involved in contemplative outreach of St. Louis and was going to this meeting.

And they set up an introductory workshop at St. Francis Xavier Church at St. Louis University.

And he came and invited the entire meeting to come to that intro workshop.

I was ready.

I was open.

And this time, unlike when I was 18 years old, when the monks in Snowmass said, you meditate 20 to 30 minutes twice a day.

Okay.

Absolutely.

Yeah, we're going to be looking at all those mountain towns from Snowmass to Breck and Bell and Copper and all the rest.

Have you dealt yet with a challenge in this business that you didn't anticipate before you guys started this?

Yeah, absolutely.

These grants will distribute $1 million to groups that are working to create ways to reduce human bear conflicts.

Projects selected in our area include dumpster enclosures in Snowmass Village, self-lock waste containers throughout the Roaring Fork Valley, bear-resistant containers in Parachute and bear-resistant trash bins in Aspen Village.

The city of Aspen plans to spend an additional $400,000 next year on forestry management and wildfire mitigation.

With the extreme fire danger we saw over the summer, the city focused on cutting back trees and removing brush around town.