MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: 2026

  • Analog bags

    Telluride Times, June 25, 2026 “The digital world is a shadow of the real world.”— Jonathan Safran Foer In our region, it’s not uncommon in a museum or visitor’s center to see a medicine pouch in the life-sized dioramas section—a pouch usually containing some combination of prayer objects, sacred minerals like crystals, seeds, pigments, plants,…

  • Birding for health

    Telluride Times, June 11, 2026 “There is an unreasonable joy to be had from the observation of small birds going about their bright, oblivious business”― Grant Hutchison, Recently someone somewhere wrote that at a certain point your adult life, you will start to notice birds. if this has not happened yet to you, it still may.…

  • A foot up

    Telluride Times, May 28, 2026 “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art” — Leonardo da Vinci. Those of you with foot issues will understand when I say to the world at large: Please, fellow bipeds, take care of your dogs. Considering the single square foot of real estate that…

  • Smoking brain (it’s a good thing)

    Telluride Times, May 14, 2026 “Neuroplasticity is better than mind over matter. It’s mind turning into matter as your thoughts create new neural growth.” — Rudolph E. Tanzi Some months ago, I heard on a podcast by Andrew Huberman, the popular neuroscientist out of Stanford, that adult neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to rewire itself—can be driven…

  • Rolling in the oats

    Telluride Times, April 30, 2026 “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”  – Samuel Johnson There’s this young guy on social media with a hefty following whose thing is oats. Oats as an ingredient, in oat bakes, oat breads, oat puddings, crackers, and everything you can…

  • Spring balancing acts

    Telluride Times, April 16, 2026 “Balance is the secret ingredient to a happy and meaningful life.” — Deepak Chopra Many years ago—probably in the early ’90s—there was a cleanse going around Telluride that consisted mostly of psyllium seed husk (the key ingredient in Metamucil) and apple juice. It lasted four to seven days and was…