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My reading last spring at Panopolie in Raleigh was so much fun! Let’s do it again! I hope you might join me in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December 12th. There will be fun and laughter (and I hear there might also be fudge)! I’ll be reading from and signing Life is a Verb – and some new work from my…
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Hugging is a form of mindfulness. Magic happens when you really hug someone. Hug them as you breathe in and out deeply three times. From Thich Naht Hanh: Hugging meditation is a practice I invented. In 1966, a woman poet took me to the Atlanta Airport and then asked, "Is it all right to hug a Buddhist monk?" In my…
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On this Thanksgiving Day (in the U.S.), I love you ol of the time.
by inches You want it here and now, a remedy for everything gone wrong. A magic wand, perhaps, alighted on your shoulders. An angel whispering sweet nothings while you sleep so you wake benighted with certainty that you are whole once again. You realize your patience is diminishing, and yet what's required is the reverse. This will not be some…
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The afternoon after meeting Santa, Tess typed a letter to him. I found it this morning. We'll go to the post office and mail it this afternoon.
I watched Tessie experience magic on Saturday. The Asheville Holiday Parade is a tradition, especially since Emma started marching in it a few years ago with the Asheville High School band. This year was her last such parade, now as senior section leader to the awesome sousaphone section. And so it was a special moment, watching her stop right in…
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Every Thursday, a few links, including one to Mr Depp just because he has been declared the Sexiest Man Alive. (Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to get there, I'll include a thanks to the person who surfaced it for me.) mind :: my brain and your Here's what I'm reading now. Have a Kindle but miss…
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Homage to My Hips these hips are big hips.they need space to move around in.they don't fit into littlepetty places. these hipsare free hips.they don't like to be held back.these hips have never been enslaved,they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips.these hips are magic hips.i have known themto…
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I drove last night to Cullowhee, North Carolina, to read for the third time to N.C. school teachers attending retreats at the NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT). They are among my favorite crowds because TEACHERS COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY ROCK. Last night, there were two seminar groups who attended the reading–asking some of the best questions I've ever…
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This is the 1000th post on 37days. To celebrate this nice big round number, I am posting an essay from one of my favorite writers, Amy McCracken. It's all about offering a peppermunt from Holland, about loving, about mindfulness, about sitting quietly with a tin of mints in your lap to survive. It's about simply offering a peppermunt to someone…
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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.
