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Show •-#• The Park Record A-18 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 15-18, 200G MORE DOGS ON M A I N STREET . ' rl'.'s tf-I* JmC>ilv&L By Tom Clyde " • That's all there is, folks •-?.%,?, •,sl" v ^ Lewis, Wolcott & DornbusnReal Estate ell, that does it for ski season. I'm ready to have share with anybody else, and then mail it off to the IRS. the snow gone and the trails dried out. Monday I'm not much of a numbers person, so I always supplewould be fine. If somebody would get right on that, I'd ment the tax return with what I call the essay portion of appreciate it. But what a great ski season. Overall, the the annual filing. I send a letter to my congressional delwinter seemed more gray and stormy than usual. There egation letting them know what I think of the job they were lots of little and medium storms rather than a few are doing. After all, they are responsible for spending huge dumps. The result was that there were lots of little that money we're mailing off, and also created this wonand medium powder days, and I think I got most of derful system of collecting it. them. Last year, I was on a quest to get 100 days. This I think it's an important part of the process, letting year was more quality than quantity. Three or four pow- them know how they're doing. This year, I'm not very der days a week -- I'd say that was top quality, happy about things. As a nation, we're borrowing a bilHere's a big thanks to all the people who made the lion dollars a day from China. At some point, that note ski season such a pleasure. It's everybody, from the will come due and we have no plan for repaying it. lifties to the people in the cafeterias. I made it through Worse, we might get sideways with the Chinese governanother season without having to be roped off a lift, or ment over any number of things. All they need to do is ride in a toboggan, thanks to the ski patrol, who was shut off the cash spigot, and we're in trouble. Congress there to get others down when things went badly. These adopted an energy bill recently. Aside from some tax familiar faces will vanish into the ether, heading back to breaks for the oil companies (who are clearly suffering), Chile, Argentina, Australia, Heber, Ireland, and other and some credits for buying hybrid Toyotas, it didn't do points unknown. I hope to see you all next year, but if much. We import a greater percentage of our oil now you don't come back, it's than we did back when been a pleasure. I hope Jimmy Carter put on his you enjoyed your time cardigan sweater and • • Over the season, I've become told us all to turn down here. The resorts on the addicted to Deer Valley brownies. The the thermostats. Most of it comes from Canada Wasatch Front are still prospect of going cold turkey until next and Mexico, but an open for a while, and it's awful lot of it comes tempting to drive around December is troubling." from places run by peo-. to get a little more. You've got to get it while ^ ^ ^ • ^ ^ ^ ^ M H M ^ ^ M ^ a ^ M n B H i ^ M pie who don't like us you can. Still, there are very much. sand hill cranes in the meadow and bicycles in the Fundamentally, our national energy policy is still "Cheap Oil." But it's not so cheap. The forecasts are for garage, and spring is here. Time to let go and move on. Over the season, I've become addicted to Deer $3 a gallon gas this summer - and that assumes that Valley brownies. The prospect of going cold turkey until everything goes smoothly in places like Nigerianext December is troubling. Betty Crocker and I can Nothing has ever gone smoothly in Nigeria. bake up a pretty good imitation, but they're not quite It looks like we can count on being greeted as liberathe same. Maybe there is a 12-step program for that. tors in Iraq for another five years. I'm not sure that's a For those of us on septic tanks, spring is always an good idea. I also don't much like warrantless wiretaps, interesting time of year. A year with a huge snow pack holding people in prison withoutfilingcharges or giving and a quick melt-off is always a challenge. We get to them access to courts, setting up places to out-source know the distinctive sounds of the gurgling of the sink torture, etc. I'd prefer that we not use first-strike nukes under different conditions. There is a real fixation on against Iran. It would be good if we could respond to an the floor drain down in the furnace room. We learn to emergency with something other than duct tape and pace things. If you take a shower in the morning, you plastic (that guy is now in charge of FEMA). What I'd don't 'run the washing machine until afternoon. You really like to see is Congress managing the whole operglance out in the yard over the drain field, just to check ation responsibly and demanding that the administrafor puddles before flushing. There is only about a week tion provide a coherent policy on all of this. each year when things get a little sketchy. Part of that It's easy to have big expectations - three powder is my own doing. The only place in the yard to push all days a week, DV brownies hot from the oven, Congress the snow is right over the drain field. That can't help representing the people, a competent president. You matters. But the ground water this time of year really can dream, but at this point, I'd settle for being able to moves, and there is standing water all over the place. run the dishwasher without the drain backing up. So far, though, it isn't standing in the furnace room. W y • - i i - • i" Clochtfse from iefk Linda McReynolds, Paul Schenk, Ruth Drapkin, Karin Gage, Maire Rosol, Dennis Hanlon Jj& OWL experience Be youl yuiae Six top-producing, all-Broker, long-established, well-respected, awardwinning Realtors invite you to contact them. These experienced professionals welcome the opportunity to assist you with all your real estate needs in Deer Valley, Park City and the surrounding areas. Speaking of cesspools, this weekend is also the taxfiling deadline. We've all spent hours filling out forms, disclosing details of our financial lives that we may not Located in beautiful Upper Deer Valley at the Silver Lake Plaza, just 12 steps from the ticket window. deervalley9lwdparkcity.com Dornbush H E A L E S T A T E Please stop by or call us at: Silver Lake Plaza/Deer Valley 435 615-7110 P.O. Box 2370 Park City, Utah 84060 Tom Clyde is a former city attorney and author of "More Dogs on Main Street." 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Buyer in verify all. .Successfully listing and selling Park City and Deer Valley real estate. A big thankjou to all of my wonderful clients and friends! G Just two months before, when I was rubbing the sleep rowing up I never knew any nuns. Never went to Catholic schools... wasn't religious... didn't go to from my eyes and putting on the teapot, Margo had burst church at all. Except once a year when my grandfather on through the front door of my house and insisted I turn on. my fathers side would visit and I'd go with him to mass. the television. And we stood there watching the drama of He walked with a cane and he needed support. The nuns the planes hitting the T\vin Towers unfold and replay. I met were, in every sense of the word, black and white Suzanne and Mary Ann were traveling on the east coast creatures. Caricatures of humorless women who covered and had called to say their flight had been canceled their heads and wore no makeup. They had no role in my because of some attack in New York City. It was surreal. And I remember Margo's immediate and unconditional life, nor I in theirs. Here, in the oldest part of Park Meadows, we have sympathy for everyone involved. Margo was the person you wanted when you were always been rather smug about our neighborhood. Flat streets and few fences allow for a kind of free flow of kids going through a crisis. I had learned that firsthand and so and dogs and trees that straddle property lines. Many of I called her dozens of times to help with my friends who the homes have had the same owners for decades. About were, like me, believers but not followers. Margo didn't a decade ago, I got new neighbors in the rental house judge. She made time for my friend who discovered her across the little street in our cul de sac. Three single own breast cancer. Gave her spiritual advice and then a women. Two about my age, one close to a generation whole heaping of practical advice. The mastectomy older. They were healthy, athletic, very busy coming and turned into a lumpectomy. The healing became a kind of going and eventually sitting under the big porch urnbrel-. realigning of priorities and values and vision. My friend la at day's end on their deck. And they had friendly, well- now remembers this period of her cancer and diagnosis and healing as one of the best times of her life. mannered dogs. Margo Cain, a fine Irish name, loved all kinds of Irish I learned they were Holy Cross nuns who lived independently from a convent and they worked in this com- music and dance. She enjoyed Sundance movies and munity and in Salt Lake City, just as the first order of occasional bad television. A Democrat, because it was the party most aligned Holy Cross Sisters had in the late 1880s. As I with social justice, slipped into an illness that Margo and I often • • Margo traveled the world in her agreed on politics, defied diagnosis, they became increasingly work and everywhere she went she took which was a welcome important in my life. Not change from most of God with her. And everywhere she went the people in my life a in a "we will pray for your soul" kind of way, though generation older. she left God there/' God and many lesser Three years ago beings knew my soul •^^^••^^Moa^MHa^H • ^ ^ • I ^ H M I ^ M M their congregation could use praying for and decided leasing a about. No, they just became friends. They offered meals house wasnt such a good plan and so they bought a house and conversation and books and music. And love. Lots of for the women. In Jeremy Ranch. Margo, who had unconditional love. We shared so much over the back retired from Catholic Community Charities and work lawn we often forgot there was the cut de sac road with Holy Cross Ministries, went to work - for the first between our houses. time in her life I think - for a parish, St Mary's here in Margo was the oldest of the group. Raised in town. Father Bob told me it was a good thing to have a Washington State, she told me after I had known her for feminine ear and voice at the church. He was grateful for a while, that after college she had surprised everyone by her wisdom with the rapidly expanding parish. joining her order. Surprised her family and especially surMargo had gentle suggestions for me, often. I might try prised her boyfriend. She became many things but hospi- this, do that, when I felt blue or overwhelmed. I somehow tal administrator would be the most constant title. I think knew she was plugged into some source of goodness, I she first came to Salt Lake City to run the former Holy always took her suggestions and looked forward to new Cross Hospital. The other two women, Suzanne and ones. Mary Ann, had worked in health care and education in On Tuesday night, Sister Margo died in her sleep, at Illinois together and all three had gone to Alaska and home. worked there, finally coming to rest in our neighborhood. I will miss my friend. Miss her when I hear Eileen Ivers Margo showed me what it meant to be gracious. Not play the fiddle. Miss her when I want to learn about causthat I've acted on it but it was grand to see. Irish, she es in other countries. Miss her when I want to share Izzie's loved her Manhattan at the end of the day. She golfed and latest accomplishments. Miss her when the sunset gets skied. Margo was a great reader and a critical thinker and low on the mountain and it is time for a Manhattan and she would give me articles from the paper and books to the dimming of the day and the tales to go with that. read. By the time she was diagnosed with breast cancer, I Margo traveled the world in her work and everywhere was better. Able to help walk the dogs when the other she went, she took God with her. And everywhere she two women had to travel. Able to visit. During her recov- went, she left God there. ery was the time my first grandchild was bom and I There is much discussion in theology and popular culremember an afternoon when I was going to stay with ture about the existence of a feminine face of God. I have Margo until The Girls got home. My son and his wife no doubts about what that face would look like. Kind and made dual doctors appointments and asked if I'd watch compassionate and with a sense of humor, it looks a lot Izzie that afternoon. I combined my efforts and over in like Margo, to me. Not a harsh black and white version, Margo's living room, she sat on the couch and held that mind you. But a picture with so many shades and hues baby girl who was maybe six weeks old. Izzie had the and nuances of gray that you see how inspired creation good sense to coo and wiggle her fingers and toes and can be. It is picture I will keep close to my heart each and then gently fall asleep. Margo held that child next to her every day and most certainly on this sad Sunday in the cheek to feel her gentle breath. Whenever I need to still Park... myself, I think of how peaceful that hour in that warm, Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record and quiet room was. director of the Park City Performing Arts Center. |