MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Tag: life

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Watering our roots

    Telluride Times, April 2, 2026 “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man A couple of weeks ago, my daughter sent me a copy of a character assessment from her employer, adding that it was a routine occurrence and that the tools varied each time. She felt hers was spot…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • After the fall

    Telluride Daily Planet, e-edition, Friday, November 7, 2025 He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring We have the privilege of living high in the mountains, where our fall season…