MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: Saving ourselves

  • Days that sizzled

    Telluride Times, August 20, 2026 “The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”– Sue Monk Kidd, author My daughter reminded me the other day that in the olden and golden days of her youth (90s and 2000s), after doing the Montrose shopping run in the summer,…

  • Report from the front

    Telluride Times, Thursday, February 5, 2026 A little over a year ago, I wrote in this column that I had started volunteering with a text-only crisis line, a non-profit organization I’d read an article about and sensed might be a good fit for me. I took the 30-hour training and committed to 200 hours, or…

  • 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…