Yet by my feeble direct experience through my pioneering and wildly embraced Durango city employee yoga classes, I know by weekly sacred sweat that my native hometown leaders/servers (who choose to take my yoga class on their lunch hour!) are supremely focused, polite, obedient, humble, humorous, super-aware, highly disciplined, intelligent, compassionate and gregarious.
They could probably kick your you-know-what, because I know how strong, supple and focused they continue to become. Our noble city leaders and servers are among the most valorous students I have had the privilege of serving over my 35-plus years of teaching.
So if you are going to hammer my city leaders and servers by an easily-quilled letter to the editor to pass integrity judgment on them, know that it has been and remains a genuine highlight and deep honor of mine to give back to my community by helping the health and well-being of our precious city employees, and that before you so easily tap out that letter of lambaste against your city leaders and employees, ask yourself first: What is it that I do each day or week or month to help my community?
Steve Ilg
Durango