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Welcome to your hometown newspaper Page 2 of 4 evening. I could barely feel the ground under my feet. Stars were brighter. The recommendations to water cour casual conversation and, yes, even all new territory. There has beer laughter that wafted into the streets from one other RICD hearing, in PUe'' neighborhood homes sounded somehow and it has yet to be determined sweeter. I knew I would change, had much weight the courts will dive changed, would never be the same. And I these recommendations. remember being so overcome by this realization that when I returned indoors I Let's hope not much. also discovered I'd been softly crying without really knowing it. After a great amount of delibera and an uncanny alliance betwee But mine were not tears of sorrow. At a agricultural, environmental and time when most of this nation was recreational interests was obtair overcome with the grief of death and the upper Gunnison filed the destruction, I had magically been lifted up application. Basically, the board by the spirit of life. Please don't read that I saying that it's reasonable to be didn't grieve or feel remorse for that tragic that a certain amount of water s day one year ago - I did, and still do - but be left in the Gunnison River, last September was a time in which I protected from future developm9 learned more about life than I ever had a way of recognizing the i mport< before. of water and the recreation it pr( to the local way of life. Now, one year later, I'm still learning. Every day, something new comes along In a switch from most matters that if I just sit still long enough to see involving water law, this applica reminds me of the simple beauty of life. made sense. It was saying that An unexplained smile here, an water right should actually rnimi, unexpected discovery there taken nature. In other words, in early individually may seem pretty small or and late Summer - before and a insignificant. But collectively, these small run -off - less water should by la sensations paint a profound picture. What forced to remain in the river. they show is the essence of being. Conversely, during the peak rur periods more water show. €Id flow. The world is .more complicated a year later, most say. On the surface this may The district, of course, quantifies be true. We spend more time worrying and did so conservatively. The about safety. How do we protect application called for a RICD wE ourselves from hidden dangers? If we just right ranging from a low of 270 e try hard enough, work long enough, we feet per second in late Septe mb might just be able to eradicate all the a high of 1,500 cfs in late JUrle. unsavory potentialities in life. We have normal year, which we all realize this misbegotten belief that we can control isn't, the Gunnison fiver flows everything. through town at rates sufficientl; higher, September, 2001, has taught me different. It's taught me to try less and to feel more. But this call to reason fell on de, It's taught me to quit plotting and planning ears with the CWCB, just. like; C€ for every eventuality. Throw the future into suspected it would. the hands of faith and love, and immerse yourself in what's here, right now. In a pathetic attempt at defining what's a reasonable recreation You see, September marks a different experience, the CWCB said 2E5C kind of commemoration for me. Just a few was all the water necessary to short days after that day which no fun on the Gunnison river, Not American will ever forget, a day came that September, or early tray, tar. €t in was even more important to me. On Sept. and July, too. Two - hundred and 17, 2001, my wife and I were blessed with http:// www. gunnisontimes .com/opinion /opinionindex.html 9/13/2002