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Holiday meditation: the gumdrop chakra
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 29, 2015 (First published in 2012; back by request.) Lie down on the floor —arms and legs out, like a gingerbread man. Imagine you have two gumdrop eyes and a big, messy, icing mouth, the kind gingerbread “men” have. Now tell yourself you are neither man nor woman, you are a spice…
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Rainbow medicine
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 15, 2015 What have we to be thankful for? A living world of color (for one thing). The saturated and rich, the pale, the faded, the textured, the intense, the suggestive, the translucent. Eyeballs of today, screenburned, jaded and atrophied by narrowing fields of vision, need the good, strong, sane medicine of…
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Game on (part two)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 1, 2015 Having registered for Harvard Computer Science 50, an online course famous for changing people’s lives, I left off downloading Scratch, an MIT-generated program designed to teach children fundamental computer programming. The first homework assignment takes me eight hours. I am supposed to finish the nine-week course by December 19. I…
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Game on (part one)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 18, 2015 There’s no happy ending to this story, just to let you know up front. Because in a happy ending version, I am wearing a CS50 tee shirt, my brain is slightly more encephalized (bigger) and I have successfully reinvented and rerouted myself into mini-career number six or seven or whatever…
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Acts of rebellion
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 4, 2015 I am standing on floor 26 of 666 Fifth Avenue circa 1982 in a corner office that belongs to my boss, a middle-aged woman who has pulled herself up from the secretarial pool to VP status in one of the largest publishing houses in Manhattan. She is out to lunch…
MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT 