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Someone–and I’m not sure who, perhaps you?–needs to introduce me to the poet Billy Collins. I’ve been patient. I’ve waited my turn. I’ve written essays about this need. To no avail, dear reader, to no avail. Surely if we put into motion the infamous "six degrees of separation," someone among us can hit pay dirt and connect me to him…
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." – Albert Einstein "Our property taxes–just property taxes–were $30,000! Can you imagine! Of course, it was a 3-story house on the biggest lake in Texas, and we had two boats and a boat-landing, but still!" she exclaimed in mock astonishment. The litany continued; I half…
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“When you possess light within, you see it externally.” -Anaïs Nin She walked with a pronounced limp, shifting her weight to roll one hip forward; it appeared that one side of her was shorter than the other—and both were quite short to begin with. She wore gray pants with old sweaters, big buttons up the front, a simple style borne…
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Update: The rockets from Lebanon into Israel are hitting less than 7 miles from my friend, Yaron, whose story is told in this post – and not much farther than that from my friend Eliav and his family. Please keep them in your thoughts, won’t you? The world and all its huge, bigger-than-me problems sometimes shrinks to the size of…
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“Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.” –Robert Orben Well, Typepad, the provider for this blog, experienced a “time-released success” yesterday in which some comments and posts that had been on “37days” were sent elsewhere to cheer up little people in far away galaxies. So, if you commented and it doesn’t appear, it’s not because…
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I’m pleased to be participating in an online dialogue called "Collective Genius," a blog experiment in which a group of folks is noodling around with a different issue each month–this month, the topic is fear. If you’d like to read my entry into the conversation, it is called "Stop fearing dust" and is here. Linger while there and read some…
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“The true harvest of my life is intangible—a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.” – Henry David Thoreau I taught a Junior Achievement class for nine weeks at a local high school last fall—the focus was jobs and careers after high school, that ubiquitous school-to-work transition we all adore, that move into responsible adulthood…
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“Leaving’s not the only way to go.” – Roger Miller(thank you to Jill’s Living Room for permission to use this image of water on a poinsettia leaf) “We were invited; I’m going” was all he said, unfolding to his full height. He pressed his small, round, gold glasses against the bridge of his nose as he stared down at me….
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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.
