writing : blog
“Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” Cecil Beaton (1859-1941) French philosopher Red Convertible #1 When gun-wielding snipers were busy terrorizing Washington, D.C. in October 2002, my family still lived there, feeling hunted like small domesticated deer…
Read the rest…
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.” – Japanese Proverb While driving downtown last Wednesday, I was pondering the epistemological problems of social cognition and constructivism, the origins of values in transcendent functions, and Kantian categorical imperatives. Okay. Well. Maybe it was Johnny Depp looking transcendent in “Pirates of the Caribbean” that was actually…
Read the rest…
“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” –Anne Sexton I read obituaries. I’ve read them for years. And sometimes I’m rewarded with a gem of a life’s story, or a spectacular turn of phrase: “He had a God-given talent for operating heavy machinery” was one such jewel, culled from the Asheville Citizen-Times. But…
Read the rest…
Patti Digh is the author of six books, including bestsellers Life is a Verb and Creative is a Verb. She travels the world teaching others about mindfulness: to live fully, love well, let go deeply, and make a difference. Patti's comments have appeared on PBS and in The New York Times, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the London Financial Times, and many other international publications. She writes a thank you note every morning.
