Category: The Mind/Body/Universe Connection

  • Smoothalicious

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 5, 2024 Growing up, we had the three standard universal kitchen appliances of the time: the toaster, the blender and the stand mixer – well, not counting the “roaster,” essentially a piece of furniture you could wheel around and roast a large turkey in. I loved that thing. Throughout my…

  • Cotton candy, chutes and ladders

    Cotton candy, chutes and ladders

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 21, 2024 “Because of this inner busyness, which is going on almost all the time, we are liable either to miss a lot of the texture of our life experience or to discount its value and meaning.” John Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living The bottom line? It’s kind of a mess.…

  • In search of lost aspens

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, June 3, 2020   High up in the mountains and deep in the woods on an essence-of-summer day, I stop in my tracks as Peter and the dog continue on ahead. There are no SUV’s on this particular road,  no bikes, or hikers, or ATV’s, or company of any kind. It’s…

  • The numbers

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, January 2, 2020   In the old days, I used to buy the occasional lottery ticket, a quick-pick version, since choosing important numbers was stressful. What appealed most would have been winning like the 110 people eating Chinese food once did, by playing the same correct five fortune cookie numbers, each…

  • Resoluminaria

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, January 4, 2019   About 1 million years ago, in the early 1960s, in French elementary school, we actually learned to write with dip pens. Plastic pens with nibs you inserted. Purple ink in glass wells. The ubiquitous blotters close at hand. Stained cuticles. And hours upon hours spent copying forms to…

  • Gratitude meditation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 26, 2014 “In positive psychology research, gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships.” Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical School. “Furthermore, feelings of gratitude directly activated brain regions associated with…