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Day of the Dead Pumpkins
Telluride Daily Planet, Thursday, November 5, 2009 One day, during the beta version of my jaded years (13-15), my father arrived at breakfast and — over his Mayo Clinic grapefruit and soft-boiled egg — announced that plants had brains. Not just nervous systems, he said, but brains. “They are not given enough credit for…
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Anagrams, Part I
Telluride Daily Planet, Thursday, October 22, 2009 It’s Sunday morning, the coffee pot is half empty, and I’m plugging my ears, trying to muffle the familiar voice of Will Shortz, the New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR Weekend Edition’s puzzlemaster. Even through my fingers, though, I know exactly what the only person on earth…
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Winds That Blow Through Us
Telluride Daily Planet, Thursday, September 24, 2009 Fall, 2003. “This time of year, Colorado is quite spectacular. We have aspen trees swathing the hillsides doing what they do best: quaking and turning yellow. My mom talked about aspens the way she talked about lilacs — with the sort of awe reserved for exotics — plants that…
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The Five Answers
Telluride Daily Planet, Saturday, September 12, 2009 I’ve been mulling something over for nearly a year — which isn’t a long time if you’re a barnacle, but substantial for those of us ripping calendar pages off like petals from a flower. What’s at the center? November, 2008: I’m returning from Paris on Air Canada, flying…
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