I meant to volunteer for the animal shelter but I ended up delivering hot meals to the Southside every monday night.

A self-proclaimed lone wolf, resiliency expert, wilderness guru and passionate communicator, Larry Glover is the founder and director of the Wild Resiliency Institute. His fascination with wilderness brought him to the revelation that aspen groves are a metaphor for the essence of humanity.

Marty Horowitz, like the poet Amiri Baraka, pushes buttons with his work. Just in time for the election.

Hardly the matronly, frumpy etiquette teacher of yore, Bizia Greene has taught etiquette classes in Santa Fe for three years. She recently opened the Etiquette School of Santa Fe, where she hopes to nurture a pleasant-mannered younger American generation to have modern sensibilities and a fresh outlook.

Karyn Stockdale has been the vice president and executive director of the Randall Davey Audubon Center for 10 months. A national conservation organization, the Audubon Society is best known for its focus on birding; the Santa Fe chapter will celebrate its 25th anniversary from 1-4 pm, Saturday, Sept. 27 at its 135-acre preserve on Upper Canyon Road.

Don’t fear desert seafood

According to the counter on the Web site for The Container Recycling Institute, a Connecticut-based nonprofit, as of Aug. 8, 2008, there were 77,932,062,926 non-recycled plastic bottles in the US.

Jason Reed runs Santa Fe Brewing Company’s open mic night (myspace.com/sfbcopenmic) at 7 pm every Wednesday. (It’s on a two-week hiatus, set to resume Aug. 27.) He is in the process of recording his first album.

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