Tag: foraging

  • Eating stems

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 29, 2024 A while ago, while scrolling through the social media accounts that I’ve convinced myself make a difference in my life, I came across a young chef (Max La Manna, who seriously looks like he isn’t old enough to drive) cutting up cilantro stems instead of using just the…

  • Inhabit the now

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 15, 2024 “It takes a long time to become young,” Pablo Picasso said. Every March, because it’s my birth month, I think of this whole notion, for me and everyone else on planet Earth, of entering the world, taking a breath, and being a human.  Partly, this is because March…

  • B-R-R-Ring it

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 29, 2024 “Cold water is merciless, but righteous.” – Wim Hof What is it exactly about cold exposure that speaks to humans? The cold shower, the plunge, winter swimming, lying in the snow, face in the snow, or even hands, feet or face in ice water? While some can think…

  • Starting now: Idle a while

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, January 18, 2024 “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” Sydney J. Harris The summer after college graduation, I moved to New York from the family home in the Northwest to start a new life. I decided to go via Canadian Pacific Railway, coach class, which…