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Kai, Becca and the Working Spirit of the New West: The idea of the West is not history. It is daily life.

A Life That Moves Some couples look like they were assembled by modern life. Kai Candler and Becca Wills feel more like they were shaped by it the old-fashioned way – through movement, work, risk, and a willingness to start over when needed. Their story does not begin in Westcliffe. It winds through Moab, Kansas City, Colorado Springs, ranch country, coffee shops, horses, fly fishing, music, and the kind of improvising that tends to follow people more interested in living than posing. Kai has long carried music as a steady companion. He studied music theory growing up and learned piano, clarinet, and saxophone, often singing simply for the enjoyment of it. Music became an early thread in his life – a way of listening closely,…