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Everyone who knows me jokes about how I don’t move my head. Perhaps you didn’t know that about me. I am known for keeping very, very still. When I speak, my business partner David tells me that I plant my feet deep into the ground and become the Oracle of Delphi. Another example: If you happened to (god forbid) cut…
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One guess about what’s in the boxes. Waiting for Mr Brilliant to get home before we open them. Turns out, the publisher expects that some bookstores will have LIFE IS A VERB as early as next week. I know they are shipping to Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon, and independent bookstores–if you don’t find it, ask for it! If you…
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If I had only 37 days left I would… Call everyone I know and cry about having only 37 days leftTry to figure out a way to extend the 37 days to at least 38, if not 39Fly everyone I love in to sit on my bed with meTouch people more—on their face, on their arm, behind their neckBe less…
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You have had the audacity to take on human form and you are delighted. But the human form has ten thousand changes that never come to an end. Your joys, then, must be uncountable. – Chuang Tsu"If I am to change again, then let me embrace change. That is my life – to change. Every seven years, all the cells…
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Laura McCloskey from Canada writes: "To tell a 23-year-old that she has but 37 days to live, and to ask her what she might do with those final days, is unfathomable, incomprehensible, mindboggling crazy talk (at least for this self-presumed invincible 23-year-old!). And yet, if today was Day One of the 37, here is what I would do: At first,…
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Responses have started coming in from readers like you, each answering in their own way the question: "What would you be doing today if you only had 37 days to live?" From Georgia comes this beautiful and poetic answer from Barbara Durham: Making Come now friends gather round from far and near, silver and gold, of times past old and…
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To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give. -Taisen Deshimaru If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably know why it’s called 37days, not 38 days or 160 weeks or a fancy fortnight or Half a Dozen Years Or So. For those who don’t know, my stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer in late 2003…
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When Emma was six or seven, we traveled to Israel to see our friend, Eliav, and his family. And to do some work there, of course. Let’s not forget the work. And the fact that Eliav’s wife, Chagit, can cook like nobody else. And that the strawberries are as big as your head. And that jeweler Ayala Bar has a…
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I first posted an entry about Randy Pausch last September, when his "Last Lecture" became a YouTube hit. A father of three young children and a beloved professor at Carnegie Mellon, Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at such a young age. The odds were definitely against him. For his children, he wanted to leave behind a legacy–the lecture 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.
