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Gingermane (reflections of a semi-tough cookie)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 26, 2012 [This interview follows a guided gingerbread “man” meditation from several weeks ago.] MCW: So, here we are. Thanks for agreeing to speak with me. Gingerbread Being: You can pick me up, gently, so I can see you and so we can talk. And you shouldn’t make this sound…
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Morning meditation and the gumdrop chakra
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 12, 2012 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 cake, clove and cardamom…
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Codependent once more!
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 29, 2012 I’m on the website of cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy (the host of a show I have just discovered, My Cat from Hell) reading about spirit essences, and scanning the dozens of ingredients listed in a promising little vial called Feral Cat Rehabilitation, a list which includes not only…
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Going to great (graduated) lengths
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 15, 2012 Another brilliant day at the skate track where I have brought an acquaintance to make a loop. She, an out-of-towner who hasn’t cross-country skied in years, is on borrowed equipment, which turns out to be skate skis, which she is unfamiliar with. I have on my “sport” Rossignol…
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You-who
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 1, 2012 Here in Whoville, the year is about to roll like a log on its way to the sawmill. Christmas trees are being lobbed into piles outside. Ornaments are going back into recycled egg cartons. And town-wide, Whos of every age and temperament draft New Year’s resolutions on the…
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Fur checks with Santa
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 18, 2011 Santa: [answering phone, already annoyed] Blitzen, stop pestering me about the formation, would you? It’s a year ending in 1, and you’re behind Comet. Period. [pauses] You listening? MCW: Hello, um, is this Santa??? Santa: [pauses] Who is this? How did you get this number? MCW: I got…
MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT 