Category: Prayer Hands

  • The air we breathe

    Telluride Times, August 6, 2026 For the majority of my life, I have lived in clear, clean air in two basic flavors, low humidity and high. That being said, during a couple of four-year stints when I was young, I breathed very badly polluted air on a regular basis.  In Southern California in the late…

  • 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…

  • The kingdom of sleep

    Telluride Times, Thursday, February 19, 2026 This morning on the dog walk while reminiscing about childhood, I slipped mentally into my room on the second floor of the big house I grew up in, in Seattle. At night especially, it was clear to me how empty the place felt and how far away everyone else…