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Home Sweet Home, A Colorado State Open Thread, Labor Day, 9/4/2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-09-04

The photo for the diary was taken just a couple minutes ago of the view from my home in Estes Park. I know how lucky I am to have a view like the above. I also am lucky to have a community like that of Daily Kos to return to. Thailand was full of wonderful, warm people who were happy to meet me and I was exposed to many new perspectives and different normals (I can’t say new normals because they’re not “new” to the people who live them every day), but other than the people I met, there were not many things that drew me the ways Colorado drew me back.

The Colorado State Open Thread is a way of sharing our thoughts and feelings about our wonderful square(ish) state. With each other, with the greater Kos community and with netizens around the globe. Maybe even with people in Thailand.

For those who might not know, or remember, two gracious Kosacks filled in for me over the past five weeks so that I could return to Thailand, to better get to know a woman that I met there in February. I wish to thank acpa and babushka for maintaining the Open Thread while I was away. I have read only one column so far, but I certainly will enjoy reading their work. I have enjoyed their columns on previous occasions. Right now, I’m still working on getting used to our elevation and to the opposite time on the clock. It’s almost correct to just switch am with pm to get the time in Thailand. I am still catching long naps to try and get over jet lag and thin air; I hope this gets worked out soon.

As a result, this column is going to be a short one — I started late (again) in writing it, but I plan on getting back into the Colorado swing soon. Since most of my news comes through the Internet, I was able to keep updated on many Colorado and US issues. Many are still the same — a month isn’t a really long period, but some topics I saw that I saw and noted for my return (though now I don’t have links to put in the main diary due to time restraints) were:

An article someplace (I’ll dig it up and post it in the comments) that I saw that would interest Meteor Blades and some other people about Colorado’s history with Native American children being forced into residential schools. This issue has been noted in Canada, especially, with graves of maltreated and undocumented children from reservations being forced into schools to have their native heritage unlearned and Christian schooling forced onto them. I didn’t realize this (from my point of view, shameful) practice was being done in Colorado, though I should have realized it since it seems like this was done everywhere.

I saw how the Front Range has had its usually very hot summer days, but I did have my neighbors up here say that the rain has continued off and on through August and, indeed, over the four days since I’ve been home, we’ve already had rain (not just sprinkles) on two days. If you expand the picture at the top of the diary, you can see some snow still is on the peaks. As these days grow shorter, I don’t think those peaks will be totally free of snow this summer, which is unusual.

I will publish some thoughts in upcoming diaries on the rural life that I experienced in Thailand this time, though we did spend time in Bangkok (12 million people or so), Singapore (about 6 million) and Kuala Lumpur (8.6 million).

Until those future thoughts, I look forward to what you might want to tell me about how your Colorado has been over the past month plus. The floor is yours.

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