Category: 2025

Stillness as medicine

Telluride Times, Thursday, December 26, 2025 “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” – Rumi Remember, just a short time ago –15-20 years, say — when it was considered rude for someone to be talking on their cell phone at the grocery store? I specifically recall my own indignation when a…… Continue reading Stillness as medicine

Healthy, stealthy and wise

Telluride Times, Thursday, December 11, 2025 “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” –Jimi Hendrix Growing up, I loved this ‘70s TV show called Kung Fu, starring David Carradine as a Shaolin mixed-race monk returned from China to track down his half-brother in the American West. (It loses a bit in the translation.) Kwai-Chang Caine’s flashbacks featured…… Continue reading Healthy, stealthy and wise

Turkey talk

Telluride Daily Planet, e-edition, Friday, November 21, 2025 Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie Every time I see a rafter of turkeys — another word for flock, I have learned — a little gold wildlife-sighting star lands on my shoulder like a…… Continue reading Turkey talk

After the fall

Telluride Daily Planet, e-edition, Friday, November 7, 2025 He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring We have the privilege of living high in the mountains, where our fall season…… Continue reading After the fall

This isn’t about sugar

Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 24, 2025 “I love to eat — Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day.” — Kim Kardashian In college, about a million years ago, I distinctly remember a moment of flopping myself down on our senior house couch and peeling open a full-sized…… Continue reading This isn’t about sugar

Pickle people

Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 10, 2025 Even as a toddler, I loved pickles. In 1962, my family crossed the Atlantic on the SS United States, a sleek luxury liner that would take us to my father’s last tour of duty for the U.S. Army in France. And the story my mother told was that…… Continue reading Pickle people