MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Mental Health

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Digital freeze out

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 1, 2025 “We live in a digital world, but we’re fairly analog creatures.” –Omar Ahmad On a morning walk recently, and tuning into a health podcast I found at the last minute, what often happens with information happened again: The subject I’m interested in finds me, all algorithms aside. Though…

  • Vision quest

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 6, 2025 “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller Traveling recently, I saw something in an airport bathroom that got my attention. It was one of those moments: you see something and you wonder why you’ve never tried it, you give…

  • Curation inflation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, May 23, 2025 “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.” — Buddha In 1974, the book most often seen in the halls of my Catholic girls’ high school — invariably wrapped in brown paper — was The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. Reading as we walked from…