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Spice dump
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 24, 2024 Growing up, there was a single spice rack screwed onto our apricot-colored kitchen wall, the same kind virtually every family in our neighborhood had in the 60s and 70s, with a set of 12 spices that never seemed to diminish over the course of many years, including things…
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Dragons and heroes
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 26, 2024 “In a ruined and toxic future…” — Apple TV promo for a new series “We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” — Tom Robbins In my 20s, I worked in the rights department (sales of excerpts, quotes, cover art,…
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Snowflakes are us
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 12, 2024 Very early on in the health coaching coursework, we were introduced to the concept of “bio-individuality,” which essentially means that each one of us is unique in our body’s history, make-up, and responses. We forget this, given that we’re all human and given our proclivity to want someone…
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Eating stems
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 29, 2024 A while ago, while scrolling through the social media accounts that I’ve convinced myself make a difference in my life, I came across a young chef (Max La Manna, who seriously looks like he isn’t old enough to drive) cutting up cilantro stems instead of using just the…
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Inhabit the now
Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 15, 2024 “It takes a long time to become young,” Pablo Picasso said. Every March, because it’s my birth month, I think of this whole notion, for me and everyone else on planet Earth, of entering the world, taking a breath, and being a human. Partly, this is because March…


