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How a Ski Area
Can Reconnect Us
To Our Space &
Each Other
By Curt Steinhorst
She builds speed as her skis cut the ungroomed
snow, like finger traces in the soft sand of a Zen
garden. The morning sun fills the crisp air with the
promise of a glorious day. She admires the scenery
in quick glances, away from her immediate route,
grateful to have this quiet mountainside nearly
to herself.
Her phone buzzes. She continues her descent,
releases her right pole, and reaches into her front
pocket to check the notification. A text from her
boss: “Do we have any room left in the conference
budget? Suddenly…
WHOOSH.
Adrenaline pumps. Relief washes over her.
Perhaps it was the phrasing of the text that
caused her path to drift left—narrowly missing a
thin, leafless tree (or person).
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