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The best car is a teal Bug convertible.The best scooter is a teal Vespa.The best color is, well, teal.The best pasta sauce is Rao’s marinara.The best jeweler is Tony Malmed at Spirit of the Earth in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And Johan van Aswegen. These are the best stuffed creatures that I long for.The best yogurt is without a doubt…
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"You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." – Anne Lamott Hate has a long tail. It is an emotional state with a deep history, an irrational and sad one. I will long remember hearing about James Byrd being dragged to death behind…
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“The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” -Theodore M. Hesburgh Only when we get to a certain age can we begin to see patterns in our lives, those choices made and not made, just as we have to be a certain distance from the earth to see crop circles or…
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As this young man has finally done. I promise not to post talent show videos endlessly, but when this one came across my desk this evening, I had to pass it on or at the very least post it so I could listen to it every morning for a while…. How many people do we pass on the street, in…
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I can’t remember being so moved by a voice.
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." – Albert Einstein We both felt a little ill, slightly nauseous, with grumbling, roiling tummies and headaches that make you pay attention and not move too quickly or too far. We both felt that…
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Today, the mailman dodged the remains of Tess’ pirate birthday party (how on earth is she 4 already?) and walked the pirate plank to the porch to deliver an electric bill, 2 Visa card applications, a reminder to donate blood, a New Yorker, a Sun magazine, a note from a prisoner in Minnesota who reads 37days, and an envelope from…
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In July, I’ll leave to teach at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon, for several weeks. I’ll teach three courses there this summer with three amazing colleagues: Humor and Play as Intercultural Tools, Training at the Edge: Experiential Tools for Intercultural Learning, and Using Storytelling to Lead Change and Diversity Efforts. Oddly, I have funny photos of…
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As much as I enjoy being told how I can enlarge various parts of my body for $19.99, that I’ve won the lottery in the Netherlands, and that a time share in Papua New Guinea is waiting for me, after spending today deleting many spam comments on 37days, I’ve decided that for the moment, I need to turn on the…
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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.
