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U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy on Tuesday restored the endangered status for wolves in the Northern Rockies as part of lawsuit filed by environmentalists, and federal wildlife officials said they want to remove wolves from the endangered species list -- again -- by early 2009, Matthew Brown of the AP reports.

Storytellers aren’t cool and that’s one of my favorite things about them. They don’t make truckloads of money and they aren’t considered sexy. With the exception of Garrison Keillor they aren’t famous either. In the end they work for blessings, ours and theirs, because in the act of storytelling there is a connection and communication between teller and audience that leaves us both craving more.

Every year I get excited about the main event of one of the last literary groups left standing in Taos. Society of the Muse of the Southwest or S.O.M.O.S., presents a storytelling festival, a full weekend of invited and local storytellers including concerts of stories, workshops, story swaps, children’s stories all during the most beautiful time of the year in Taos.

Taos Storytelling Festival, Oct. 17 and 18 at Anglada’s Building
For more information check out www.somostaos.org