FEATURED RIVER TRIP
CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF
Canyonlands National Park
Colorado River, Moab, Utah
August 7-11, 2012
No rafting or writing experience necessary.
Late season trip means a mellow river!
Page Lambert's first River Writing Journey with Sheri Griffith Expeditions launched in 1998 following the publication of Kathleen Jo Ryan's book Writing Down the River. In 2006,Oprah's O magazine featured these writing adventures as "One of the top six great all-girl getaways of the year!" | |
DATES: August 7-11, 2012
COST: $1499 base price
DEPOSIT: $300 holds your space
COMPLETE DETAILS
This 5-day August adventure starts and ends in Moab, Utah, 6 hours from Denver. You'll float the Colorado River through Lathrop Canyon, Cataract Canyon, and Canyonlands National Park. Sheri Griffith Expeditions provides all the equipment, including your tent and sleeping bag. The wonderful SGE women guides do all the cooking and rowing. Creative facilitation by Page Lambert.
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Questions? info@pagelambert.com
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Greetings!
 "Over the course of the next 9 days," writes my favorite astrologer Deborah O'Connor in her latest column, "we will experience a series of energy waves.... A new moon in Gemini rises tomorrow morning... Gemini loves stories, loves to spin tales both tall and small.... Time to call on your inner editor... time to put a spin on your own spin." I was born on the cusp between Gemini and Cancer, and I'll be celebrating the big SIX Oh this week, so putting a new spin on my "old spin" sounds pretty good.
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BK signing Theft at Tattered Cover |
Last night, at BK Loren's birthday party and debut celebration for her first novel THEFT, I found myself drinking red wine and talking with poet Kathryn Bass (author of the acclaimed collection THE MYSTERIES), with her husband Joel, and with two women engineers, one of them a ROCKET SCIENTIST (we were all impressed, even Kathryn, who never even mentioned her Ph.D., which impresses me to no end). After we raved about BK's novel, we put new spins on just about everything--from meat grown in vats, to satellites and mirrors, to small bookstores in a big-box marketplace, to a Montana farmer who's converting diesel fuel exhaust to fertilizer, even asking each other if "we were getting enough dirt in our lives" (check out the chapter "Dirt" in Dr. Larry Dossey's book The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things.  During the conversation, there was also a funny misunderstanding when the rocket scientist mentioned The Denver Women's Press Club but because of all the after-party noise, I couldn't hear her and thought she said, "The Denver Women's Breast Club," which led to a lot of laughter and silliness, and which leads me now to Mary Taylor Young's new book Colorado Mammals. Though all mammals have mammary glands, not all mammals have antlers or horns (like the male Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep on the cover). And yes, humans are mammals too.  If we keep putting new spins on life as we know it (like genetically modifed foods and vat meat), we will probably someday do away with mammary glands all together, which would make me doubly sad. And which also leads me to the topic of relationships. It is hard to have a relationship with meat grown in a vat, and hard to teach your kids to care for meat grown in a vat. I want to have a relationship with the world around me -- from the raucous murder of crows that live in the ponderosas outside my door, to my neighbor the geophysicist, to the fruits and vegetables on my plate, to the barbequed ribs on the grill. I do not want to shrink from knowing about life and death, but I do want to be a change agent, someone who helps improve the quality of life and death on earth, even if only in my own small corner of the world.  If that means nurturing a bottle calf who has lost his mother (and thus her devotion and her udder), or quieting my mind so that I can listen to the whirling of a dragonfly's wings -- to remind myself like Bernie Krause reminds us in his wonderful book THE GREAT ANIMAL ORCHESTRA (reviewed in the New York Times), that we can enjoy a noisy celebration with friends, yet still find time the next day to listen to a few "natural soundscapes," sounds that aren't only vital to the animal kingdom, but to humans as well, for they remind us with their music that hearts do indeed yearn to sing. Wishing you a beautiful summer solstice. May we all, as Deborah reminds us in her latest column, "expand into the truly extraordinary work before us." Page |
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