MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Deep Stuff, Sort Of

  • Rapt, wrapped, rapped

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, August 19, 2012 The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is…

  • Rudraksha

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 25, 2012 It is 1983 and hot, sticky summertime in New York, and the six-person ad agency where I work is empty except for me, the girl who answers the phone, buys radio time and waits for ad copywriting scraps like a dog on its hind legs. When the front…

  • Sink or Swim

    Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Amid recent personal upheaval and loss, I have spent days and weeks sifting through papers, photos, memorabilia, searching for things I cannot find, among them a set of Xeroxes of photos of my family boarding a ship. The original photos, sent to a glossy magazine in the mid-‘90s…

  • I scream, you scream, we all scream for primal scream

    Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 A recent fling with bicycle riding has left me feeling euphoric and impervious to injury of late, which is a dangerous state in the world of exercise, anyone here can tell you that. After hard rides (for a 50-something), I come home coasting on endorphins, and the thought…

  • Echo Park, Los Angeles, April 2010

    Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Reality is the light and fluffy topic of the day here in LA with my friend Dave, 10 years free and clear of Telluride, an Angeleno by birth returned successfully to his proper place in the universe. And according to Dave, at the end of the red-sunned day,…

  • A Ten-Bird Guide to Time 2010 Wall Calendar

    Telluride Daily Planet,  Wednesday, December 30, 2009 The winter solstice has teetered, a new year is on its way, and that means palettes of shrink-wrapped calendars will soon be handed out like Bingo cards to all of us, the day-trippers of time. There must be other people out there like me, yearning for something completely different:…