Category: 2012

  • March Memo

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 11, 2012 In March, the world — an orb — cracks like an egg and life hatches. Sneaks and spills and breaks and whispers out, and we who see and salute it are the lucky ones. In March, robins return and flocks of little brown birds explode through the sky…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…