“REST is the conversation between what we love to do and how we love to be. Rest is the essence of giving and receiving; an act of remembering, imaginatively and intellectually but also physiologically and physically… …Rested, we are ready for the world but not held hostage by it, rested we care again for the right things and the right people in the right way. In rest we reestablish the goals that make us more generous, more courageous, more of an invitation, someone we want to remember, and someone others would want to remember too.” -David Whyte Make a tax-deductible donation to Rainbow S ..read more

Summer Camp with Jeff! Jeff of Jeff & Paige is joining forces with Thorne Nature Experience in summer 2023! Jeff will be guest a presenter at 4 of the 6 sessions of Thorne’s Eco-Explorers day camp, kids aged 5-6.   What does this mean??  One day per session Jeff will be working with campers to emphatically and theatrically share his love of music, dancing, science discovery, and the outdoors! Campers will not only see a live concert, they’ll be a part of creating a performance for their grown-ups!  Jeff will have lunch with campers, rotate with them through some nature/musi ..read more

We’ve earned non-profit status! Introducing the best official business name in Colorado… “Rainbow Socks!” The pandemic proved to us that artists need a more sustainable business model and led us to a question (as well as a whole lot of paperwork): The vast majority of organizations that purchase child-focused educational program offerings are non-profits, schools and local government entities, most of whom can’t afford to pay a rate that supports funding artists AND additional programming costs like marketing, materials, creation of new content etc ..read more

WOW! Children's Museum Fundraiser Concert and Playtime: Sun. Sept 11th, 4-6pm Do you know the WOW! Children's Museum in Lafayette, CO? If you live in the Front Range and you have young kids then the answer most certainly should be "yes!" Here's the two main reasons why Jeff & Paige are donating our time, equipment, marketing and love to this upcoming, fun, fundraiser: WOW! is a 501c3, community supported non-profit and beloved small business in our community. WOW! has been a big part of our own kids' early childhood explorations of science, sharing and play! Al ..read more

It's a Wednesday, and I've hit my moment of overwhelm... I walk in the door of my house to find a pile of laundry that's been sitting on the couch since last Wednesday, like snow on a mountain in winter, it seems to grow with each passing day. The dishes from breakfast are in the sink, the kids need dinner now, and I feel like I need to get on my email after we put them to sleep, which means I'll be up until after midnight IF I get sucked in. The overwhelm of the "to dos" can feel impossible when we get stuck in the mindset that it all needs to get "done." But as I often say to my husband (J ..read more

We get it, buying online from a phone, with a company that charges NO shipping is easy. We can do it any time of day or night, we can check those undies, shoes, birthday gifts, craft supplies, etc off of our "to do" lists after the kids go to sleep from the comfort of our couches. And many small businesses, our own included, are adapting to add online sales systems as a result of this new expectation many have about shopping. However, as we all get more serious about facing the realities of the climate crisis, we need to face the reality of the costs associated with buying new stuff and w ..read more

Empathy You walk into the event with your arms full of children. Your hands are sticky from a morning of half eaten honey toast, your head aching from occasional shrieks of joy, and frequent cries of dismay. The flurry and push to get out the door to something the kids want to go to astounds you every time. Can't they just put their shoes on and go? Your heart is beating a lot faster on a Saturday morning than it seems like it should. You're tired and it's the weekend, you wonder if you are a terrible person for preferring your more orderly and quiet weekday of adult time to the chaos and no ..read more

Membership Drive Results -- in Poetry form by Paige I begin with a goal-- 400 new members-- that seems reasonable enough. After all I watched "Field of Dreams" with Kevin Costner in 1989. "If You Build it They Will Come." I'll put this out to our audience and they will come... They don't. 1989 was well before the internet glut. Kevin Costner didn't have to contend with instagram posts getting buried in reels of babies' dancing on hoverboards. Social media platforms would have destroyed his baseball field appeal so that the signals couldn't get through even to the ghosts of dead baseball play ..read more

Dear Jeff and Paige Fans, As we consider what we can offer our Colorado community right now we are thinking about children and helping them process the Marshall Fire without becoming hopeless or depressed. This is a long journey, perhaps one might say, a lifelong journey. Being human, with our inherent impermanence, is a uniting reality and a confusing one. One of the reasons "Jeff and Paige" choose to educate about nature and science is because these subjects are at the very edge of what we can know and understand. These "subjects" are an avenue into the deepest parts of being alive and pr ..read more

Paige the bobcat circa 2010 photo credit Caroline Colvin. I've been dressing up like a bobcat on stage since 2008. And I don't want to stop. So I'm releasing my inner bobcat and fighting for my work as an artist and performer. It's the fight of a mother/provider, it's the fight of an animal, it's the fight of a highly trained educator that knows this work is important in the world. I almost gave up last month, I started looking for jobs, I cried... a lot, and then I picked myself up and found my voice and vision coming back again. Jeff and Paige have been performing nature and science based ..read more