If you’ve ever wondered what it is like…really like..to live in a Resort town let me give you a little snippet. Last Friday evening I attended the FREE Michael Franti & Spearhead concert here in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This sentence it itself should be enough for anyone to leave their city lives—FREE Michael Franti concert??!! So, as I’m weaving my way through the crowd grabbing hands and getting hugs from fellow “locals” squeezing my way up to the front to get a better view…..I’m noticing that everyone is there. My yoga teachers, my doctors, my ex-co-workers, my Spanish teacher, my business consultants, my best friends, my family, my clients and long-lost (not so far-Steamboat is small) lovers. Everyone was bouncing to the beat, feeling the love with amazing smiles from ear-to-ear.

This community sure does come together to help out it’s own (like the gals at the entrance of the show collecting donations for a local woman’s ill son) but I have never, in my 16 years of living here, felt such a large sense of “one” then I did that night. As we were dancing our way out at the end of the show, we ran into a friend who moved away for a few years. He stated that “returning back to Steamboat enabled him to get his groove back” he just couldn’t seem to find it where they went…….that my friends is precisely why we live here. We are all able to live in this paradise dancing to our own individual groove.

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