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“The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.” – Georg Trakl This week, the same message came to me from four places: on a table, while driving up Hillside Street, by a bonfire, and watching a tree swing trace its lazy arc. On the table She opened the door. “Hi,” she said, “it’s good to see you.” “You, too!”…
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“For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life.” – Eric Hoffer Two friends from high school visited several months ago: I hadn’t seen one of them for 29 years, one for 20 years. Let’s…
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Now that the comforts of my Nalgene Polycarbonate water bottle, Purell hand cleanser, Kiehl’s Lip Balm #1 and Moisturizing Black Raspberry lip gloss have been stripped from my carry-on bags, one of the only joys of travel remaining is meeting amazing people along the way. I’ve written before about some of those wondrous humans that I’ve met on planes and…
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“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” – A.W. Pinero ACT I – August 16, 1959 “What was it like the day you were born?” Mama asked, making sure she had heard the question correctly, then answering immediately as if it was yesterday, not 47 years ago today: “It was…
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“Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.” -Mahatma Gandhi Well, as unimaginable as it might seem, yet once more, no one called to ask me to deliver a profoundly moving, yet delightfully witty and somewhat intellectually stimulating commencement address at their college, high school, pre-school, cake-decorating symposium or auto…
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"I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles, in which vital and transforming events take place." – Rufus Jones The world outside makes me quiet, sometimes, with its horror and fear and terror and hate. Like today. Like yesterday. Perhaps like tomorrow. With war and shoe bombs and plots to blow up planes in the universe, there seems…
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Perhaps you will enjoy this wee little essay that appears today in the Christian Science Monitor!
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Harper Lee In the truest sense of the word, the universe provides what we need when we need it. Or perhaps we only can hear the messages we need when we need them and not at other times, like the time in…
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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.
