"Hi" From Colorado
Hi everyone!
Please note my email address has changed from last year's directory: noalani@skybeam.com is correct.
We got back from last year's reunion just in time for me to sing in a special November concert at the Montrose Pavilion (quite a nice setup for a town our size – auditorium seats over 600 people). We are now in rehearsal for our second annual Montrose Arts Council Festival Chorus performance. Thanks to the director of last year's event, I ended up on an email list which eventually got me into the ensemble (and one line) in a local production of "South Pacific" – hence the photograph. Rehearsals began in February and we gave 11 performances in May and June – lots of work and lots of fun. Oh, the backdrop in the nurse photo is based on a tapa (bark) cloth my father brought back from American Samoa in 1939.
I finished my index for The Green Medicine Chest I was working on in San Diego, and have indexed books on a far-ranging variety of topics this year including The Economics of Climate Change in China, The Fungal Pharmacy (medicinal mushrooms and lichens) and Dionysius the Areopagite between Orthodoxy and Heresy (neoplatonism in early Christianity). As a result of a conversation with one of the pianists for "South Pacific," I also had a paid gig in July accompanying the Missoula Children's Theater one week in Ouray (40 miles from here); this had an added advantage of taking me closer to the mountains during a very hot week down here in the valley.
Darrell (and I) have made substantial progress on our new deck and hope to have it pretty much finished by the time snow flies in Montrose. The mountains are already covered in white. We are also working on growing more of our own food. Our two cats continue to entertain us.
Finally, I am tying up loose ends to turn over my duties as secretary as I leave the board of Western Colorado Congress, on which I have served for 6 years following 3 years as president of our local affiliate, the Uncompahgre Valley Association. Last Saturday, October 8, I received the Chuck & Betsy Worley Award for "inspirational leadership and dedicated participation in efforts to protect Western Colorado's communities and environment."
(Susan) Noalani Terry
Whole Life Indexing & Energy Works
61490 Epitaph Road
Montrose, CO 81403-8978