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Captain’s Log
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 8, 2014 Enterprise, Stardate: 42073.1 Recent days have spawned at outbreak of what ship’s science staff are calling “nostalgia” – for lack of a more precise definition. (Can one call it nostalgia if one has not ever experienced it in the first place? Lieutenant Commander Data posits that in the…
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April pings
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, April 6, 2014 We are driving along Mountain Village Boulevard one blustery day, Celine is about 10, when she screams, “Mom! Stop the car!”I pull over.There’s virtually no one on the road. The sky is that ridiculous blue, and stretched-out clouds scud by like pages of a book, ripped and let…
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Doers: Black-headed grosbeak
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 23, 2014 A male grosbeak, still famished from its northbound migratory flight, sits perched in the 40-degree March sun. A cold wind gusts, and the medium-sized bird, gripping and tipping on its aspen branch, bursts into eight seconds of song-line. Then looks over. MCW: [recognizing the very bird] It’s you!…
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To everything, there is a poem under heaven
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 9, 2014 It’s early March, and the sun is extremely busy right now melting gazillions of snowflakes into water. I am looking for a poem about sun, snowmelt, staying centered, finding a job, selling my house, getting married and listening to the birds — specifically chickadees, as they trill their…
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Guided meditation (with Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 23, 2014 Get the small roughhewn stool your Pa made for you and sit down on it, thinking good thoughts because you’re a well behaved person. Your Pa always liked it when you were well behaved and you still are. Only you’re not a little girl (or boy) anymore even…


