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Running with keys
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 31, 2014 I am standing on the steps of the Telluride Elementary School watching the six year old in our life step into the same classroom my 21-year-old daughter stepped into a dozen years back. It’s bumper cars on Memory Lane. Scanning the bare legs and big backpacks and worried expressions,…
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To bacon the dog: Verbing 101
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 17, 2014 “Come up into mountain pose, slowly rolling up one vertebra at a time, and then cactus your arms out as you go into mini-backbend.” Front range outdoor yoga instructor, August 10 Pursuant to a 10 a.m. class on the grass, I find cannot stop cactusing my arms, it feels…
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Peabody, here
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 3, 2014 We’re in the staff cafeteria (Enders Hall) of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in the ghost town of Gothic right outside Crested Butte where we are having lunch. Beef brisket sandwiches with barbecue sauce, a substantial salad bar, and, astonishingly, fresh cream puffs filled with chocolate crème patissière for…
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Man cave meditation
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 20, 2014 For this one, sire, stay in bed.No one ever need know you are traveling within if you simply do not move before getting up. In fact, pretend you are still asleep. Breathe in, through the nose. You can feel the slow intake of air through your nose hairs. Nice…
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Hot blood in the summertime
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 22, 2014 It’s 1971. Summer is so inconceivably, relentlessly simple. Once the last bell of the last class rings, and the middle-school warzone, temporarily peace-treatied, recedes from view, a mental movie screen begins at once to unfurl, to slowly reveal the simple title of this particular movie, in 4,000 pt…
MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT 