Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, September 15, 2013 Prep time: your entire life until now Actual prep time: 5-10 minutes Ingredients: peaches, heavy cream, honey 1. Invite someone nice over. 2. Take out a bowl. There’s a white bowl from my childhood, a milky white one that I don’t remember ever not seeing growing up, the…… Continue reading Best peach recipe (ever)
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Queue meditation
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, September 1, 2013 Start with several deep abdominal breaths — in for four, hold for four, out for four — trying not to think of the movie you just saw, the program in your hand, or the line you are in for whatever. This is the movie. You are the star…… Continue reading Queue meditation
Rancherman (™) (Get the action figure)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 18, 2013 People have their superheros. Their muses and icons and gurus and gods, those they look up to and wish they were more like. They have their Merlins and Morgaines and Wonder Womans and Joseph Campbells, their Yoganandas and Baghwans, their personal trainers and life coaches, their grandmas and…… Continue reading Rancherman (™) (Get the action figure)
Clean surface before applying meaning! (From the metaphorground series)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 21, 2013 Today I wake up and it’s like being on Mars. It is being on Mars, rather, because I can’t see a single simile as I scan the new day, from the ripening, blossoming flower of the sun to the gauzy veil of dust motes hanging on the curtain…… Continue reading Clean surface before applying meaning! (From the metaphorground series)
Top Dog, Badger, Bluebird and the sneeze
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 7, 2013 Once upon a time in July, in a valley nearly identical to this one, Prairie Top Dog sat balanced on his hind legs, spine straight, ears pricked up, darting eyes surveying things — notably the impressive number of dome and rim craters he and his fellow dogs had recently…… Continue reading Top Dog, Badger, Bluebird and the sneeze
Hooked on Mnemonics
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 23, 2013 Her name is Gloria. But I’m so preoccupied with the freckle above her lip, I only grasp her name for a half second, the length of real-time it takes three syllables to get lost in the serpentine chutes of my ear canals instead of arriving at the consecrated…… Continue reading Hooked on Mnemonics