writing : blog
I was delighted to reconnect with my high school art teacher on Facebook recently, and to receive this contact sheet (what's that? I can imagine Tess asking) from him via email yesterday. Ah, to see myself at 18, the age my oldest daughter, Emma, is now. A page of images holding so much memory and so much greater an understanding…
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I am reposting this on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Because I, too, have a dream. I have found as I’ve made my way into adulthood in this life of mine, that I share his dream. And I have dreams of my own. I have a dream that we won’t fool ourselves…
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This week marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. To mark this solemn date, I am reposting two essays I wrote as I watched from a distance the terrible situation deepen in New Orleans. Consider yourself part of the solution (first posted August 31, 2005) “In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the…
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(I see Johnny Depp got the copy of my new book I sent him. Smile) mind :: my brain and yours Get out the yoga mat. Yoga protects the brain from depression, says a new study: "Researchers have found that three sessions of the exercise a week can help fight off depression as it boosts levels of a chemical in…
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A Map to the Next World-Joy Harjo for Desiray Kierra Chee In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for those who would climb through the hole in the sky. My only tools were the desires of humans as they emerged from the killing fields, from the bedrooms and the kitchens. For the soul…
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Two monologues do not make a dialogue. -Jeff Daly In 2004, I started a list serve here in Asheville for the neighborhood in which I live. There wasn't one, and since Al Gore went to the trouble of inventing the Internet, I thought it only polite to actually use it. As I sit some evenings here in the bucolic village…
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mind :: my brain and yours Mr Brilliant is on a roll at his history of ideas blog, with a fantastic series about alphabets: occupational alphabets, touch of evil action alphabets, and something he calls Dada alphabet–monument to quiet bits. Take back your education: "School routines are set up to discourage you from self-discovery. People who know who they are…
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Need I even say how much I love this? One of my favorite poems from a favorite poet in a most unusual, small package. My thanks to Tana Butler for sharing this with me. Adore, adore, adore, adore some more.
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the…
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Look what arrived on my birthday! My newest book, Four Word Self Help: simple wisdom for complex lives. If you'd like to order a signed (and inscribed) copy, you can do so here. They are in stock and shipping immediately. My signing pen is ready. It is also available at local independent bookstores (they can order for you) and online…
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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.
