MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Getting Better All The Time

  • 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…

  • Wearable but not washable

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, September 26, 2025 We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature. — John Naisbitt In the 1970s, which seems almost like the Twilight Zone at this point, I’d often flip through the Seattle Times until I got to the “funnies” page…

  • Electrolyte-ness of being

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 29, 2025 “No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.” — Deepak Chopra Post-military career and a layoff by the Boeing company in 1969, my father, a mechanical engineer by trade, decided…

  • Watermelon weather

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 4, 2025 “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen We didn’t eat that much watermelon, growing up. In the upper left corner of the U.S. map in the 60s and 70s, it just wasn’t as hot as it has been recently; one year, in fact, I remember…

  • A shot in the arm

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 28, 2025 You can relax — this has nothing to do with vaccines. Recently, however, I’ve had a bit of an obsession with juice shots made of ginger, lemon and turmeric. The first one I ever downed was probably from a beach-side truck 10 years ago in the Hawaiian Islands.…

  • Un-mixing it up

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 14, 2025 Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.  – A.A. Milne I have a friend who is an expert at Mind Mapping, which is a personal visual representation of starting with a central idea and…