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Batmandu

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, November 4, 2012 I believe I am the one who initially sees potential sparks between the Pocahontas and Batman figurines. My daughter Celine, 6 at the time, giggles at the idea. Batman is so flex-jointed, inaccessible and dark. Pocahontas is so … half-naked. Even so, she stares at the two plastic…… Continue reading Batmandu

Field trip with elevator

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 21, 2012 Circa 1972, my father decides that the three of us (my mom and I — the rest in college) are going on a field trip to visit a wheat farming family in eastern Washington. He has read of an exchange program and wants to go since he has…… Continue reading Field trip with elevator

Tall Grasses Meditation

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 7, 2012 Lie outside in a field of tall autumnal grass anywhere you can find one – or in the grasses of your mind’s eye. Dip yourself down into the pale yellow almost white stalk color that pits itself so perfectly against the blue-gray of a blustery October sky. You…… Continue reading Tall Grasses Meditation

Elegy

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, September 16, 2012 Dear Tooth Fairy, I’m going the public route with this letter — since I doubt you’d think to look for one under my pillow — even if I had a tooth to include with it. I’ll say right up front, though, that I tend to see your mission…… Continue reading Elegy

Drive-in delirium

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, September 2, 2012 My father, a ramrod army man, says No to me so many times growing up that at some point each time, I simply stop asking. I stop asking to be a patrol in elementary school, which is something I want so bad I dream the wood handle is…… Continue reading Drive-in delirium

Rapt, wrapped, rapped

Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, August 19, 2012 The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is…… Continue reading Rapt, wrapped, rapped