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37days – 50th Birthday Year Giveaway #1 Winner! from Patti Digh on Vimeo. The first of 50 giveaways to 37days readers began this week with a beautiful felted wool scarf donated by artist Chad Alice Hagen. I told the story of the scarf earlier in the week and folks from all over the world wrote to share their favorite poem…
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Repeatedly, I kept getting emails from people who had bought Life is a Verb at a store called Random Arts in Saluda, North Carolina. "I asked for a book recommendation," one woman wrote, "and the owner of the store immediately handed me your book." Over and over again, people called and wrote with a similar story. One day, an email…
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See, the thing about telling people you're going to do something is that then you kinda have to do it. Especially if you invite them to come with you to do it and they SHOCKINGLY say yes! Fifteen people from ten states have thus far signed up to walk/run/crawl the famed Flying Pig half-marathon in Cincinnati with me and Emma…
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A year ago today, Mr Brilliant started his own blog, full of amazing images and knowledge and just downright smart and funny and erudite stuff. Tonight between putting Tessie to bed and driving to pick Emma up from community band and all the other many things he does to keep us going here at the World Headquarters of the Verb,…
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The story of the scarf from Patti Digh on Vimeo. I may have mentioned once or eleven thousand times that I'm turning 50 this year. As part of my celebration, I'm giving away 50 things over the year, things I love, that have some special meaning to me or a story behind them. Here's the first one, a very special…
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Their cause must be our cause too. Because it's not just negroes, but really it's all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome. – Martin Luther King, Jr. (1965) When you stand on the balcony of the Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee, you can see in an instant why these…
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I've been so thrilled to read in remarkable bookstores and art spaces all around the country, many of them independent bookstores which we all need to support especially in troubled economic times, and I can't wait to visit Charis Books in Atlanta, on Thursday, February 5th. I hope you can join me there or pass along the word to your…
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Having started my working life in the world as a 16-year-old librarian at the Morganton-Burke Public Library (where I will give the keynote this February 12th at their annual Author's Luncheon, which tickles me no end), I must admit that I am partial to libraries. I like the idea that knowledge is to be shared and resources pooled and new…
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When I was little, where I grew up, I used to hear people talk about getting "jewed down" all the time. Or, as a source of pride, they would announce that had really "jewed" somebody else down. Because in my Southern Baptist universe I didn't know any Jewish people, or even really what "jew" was, it never occurred to me…
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I'm very excited to be coming to New York in February to attend the Books for a Better Life Awards ceremony. Life is a Verb is one of five finalists, out of 450 nominees, in the "Inspirational Memoir" category and the winner will be announced on February 23rd. It's up against some stiff competition including Randy Pausch's bestseller, The Last…
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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.
