writing : blog
mind :: my brain and yours The State of the Union Address. I'm reminded each time how easy it is to criticize and how much harder it is to help. Cynicism is a negative intention. This is as true now as it was during the Bush administration. I'm trying to hold myself to my own standard on this one. It's…
Read the rest…
no one expects you to save the world -maya stein The headlines are begging for your help. Thousands needing homes, food.But here, your own children, like inexpert stilt-walkers, flirt too oftenwith obstacles in the street. It’s no wonder you keep eyes gluedto them. The demands of love, or a job, the hard winter reining you in -it takes all your…
Read the rest…
Let's imagine it's still Thursday. Yesterday was a day of canceled flights and mechanical failures and missed connections and airport food and fun, so here's Thinking Thursday just a tad late. mind :: my brain and yours Let's take a class at Yale. An exercise in changing yourself. A field guide to the loner. (Thanks to Carla Blazek) body ::…
Read the rest…
white-out It was as if someone had changed the channelfrom placid vista into television static.For a second, all I saw was blindness, a sudden jumblethat erased the swaying trees, the ski trails slickfrom that day’s chairlift offspring. Even the guidepostsof the highway were gone. I realize I could be talkingabout anything – the shatter of any unsuspecting scene – last…
Read the rest…
Here is my post on Facebook this morning: The people in Haiti love their children and parents and partners and lives just as we do. Lean toward them. Help in any way you can. Inaction is an action. Do something. Six Ways You Can Help in Haiti : the author includes this note: Text "HAITI" to "90999" to donate $10…
Read the rest…
The Diameter of the Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range – about seven meters. And in it four dead and eleven wounded. And around them in a greater circle of pain and time are scattered two hospitals and one cemetery. But the young woman who was buried where she came…
Read the rest…
Need to recharge, refocus, re-energize? All without leaving the comfort of your own home? I'm delighted to participate this year in Jennifer Louden's Virtual Retreat, a weekend chock full of great speakers and content and retreating for folks like you who want to refocus–where you are. In your pajamas. Here's what I'll present. I hope you'll join us for a…
Read the rest…
I know, I know. Some people go South in the winter months to get warmer, to flee the air that crystallizes the moment it hits your lungs, to avoid the shoveling, the frostbite, the bad hat hair. I am flinging all that to the winds and going to Chicago to speak at a very cool church in Elgin, Illinois, next…
Read the rest…
"So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand…
Read the rest…
Every Thursday, a few links that follow the wanderings of my brain. And a link to the recently named Actor of the Decade. mind :: my brain and yours The spirit of cell phones may be wiping away cultural differences. Music can do incredible things for patients with dementia. What is in the DNA of an innovator? I found this…
Read the rest…
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.
