MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Tag: mindfulness

  • Holding space

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 28, 2025 The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. –Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Some months ago, I read an editorial about a certain national crisis line and its needed place in…

  • Outlandish creatures

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, March 14, 2025 “Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as a prayer.” – Dean Koontz “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” Albert Schweitzer It…

  • A shot in the arm

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 28, 2025 You can relax — this has nothing to do with vaccines. Recently, however, I’ve had a bit of an obsession with juice shots made of ginger, lemon and turmeric. The first one I ever downed was probably from a beach-side truck 10 years ago in the Hawaiian Islands.…

  • Un-mixing it up

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 14, 2025 Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.  – A.A. Milne I have a friend who is an expert at Mind Mapping, which is a personal visual representation of starting with a central idea and…

  • Holiday superpowers

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, December 20, 2024 “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein Almost 40 years ago during off-season, before it was monitored or had many — if any — rules or restrictions as a climbing area, we pulled into the Indian Creek Campground, about three hours…

  • Simplicity itself

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, December 06, 2024 “Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”  -Henry David Thoreau When my daughter was about six years old, a neighbor had a few girls over for a playdate and did something so brilliant it became a touchstone for me: With nothing to offer in the way…