MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Saving ourselves

  • Stillness as medicine

    Telluride Times, Thursday, December 26, 2025 “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” – Rumi Remember, just a short time ago –15-20 years, say — when it was considered rude for someone to be talking on their cell phone at the grocery store? I specifically recall my own indignation when a…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Just don’t do it

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, January 3, 2025 My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.” -Nia Vardalos Last week, the vet strongly recommended that our Corgi be put on a diet, something we feared since the breed is known, if left unattended, for eating themselves…

  • Bittersweet

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, October 11, 2024 I adore pomegranates – the sweet arils and their bitter seeds, and everything these bursts of goodness can add to a salad, a dessert, a smoothie bowl, or just a messy, stain-making hand-to-mouth experience. Growing up, we’d see them relegated to sad displays of exotic grocery store fruits,…