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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…
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Rock, paper, scissors, hair
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, December 4, 2011 I am standing, scissors in hand, poised and inches away from my sister’s thick hardly-gray-even-though-she’s-ten-years-older tresses, thinking about gene puddles and the great wagon wheel of karma. Joelle and I, though we have identical voice registries and laugh at the same time at the same jokes, look not…
MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT 