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“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you are riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind.” – Bob Marley I’m intimately familiar with the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. Franny in Laptop Lane greets me by name; the store Toto sells good greeting cards; Starbucks is near gates 40-69; the restaurant near the information booth in…
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It is Memorial Day in the U.S., a day to remember those men and women who have laid down their lives in the service of our country. Yet, in the grandest of American traditions, as a nation we mark the day primarily by shopping. Memorial Day sales are legendary; perhaps it’s a day better spent hearing the stories of our…
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“From wonder into wonder existence opens.” – Lao Tzu When my older daughter was just a porcelain-skinned baby with ringlet hair, I remember telling my friends Gay and Rosemary I loved Emma so deeply and totally that I actually imagined myself eating her up with a spoon sometimes. Literally. True to form, Gay and Rosemary didn’t even so much as…
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“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see—or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.” – Alice Walker First, let me just say on this Mother’s Day that I appreciate my mother for so very many things—the whole…
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My father died at age 53. I know this won’t come as a big surprise if you’ve been reading 37days for a while. But you might not know that today, May 12, is the 26th anniversary of that awful day in 1980. Sometimes it passes wordlessly, but it is always in the background, always. As I left the house today…
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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." – Albert Einstein In the summer of 1996, I had a bout of terrible headaches—debilitating, numbing, paralyzing brain crushers. I was convinced they were symptoms of a brain tumor; John quietly suggested that it might be a vitamin deficiency. In fact, they were something in between brain tumor and…
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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.
