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Dear fantastic human, Like many of you, for me the end of a year and the beginning of another is a special time. It's a time to reflect and know. As I end each year, I ask myself two questions: What do I want/need to let go of as I end this year? What do I want to…
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Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings… we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it smiling by the windows looking out in our…
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(Tess, third grade school photo) [mind] I'm keenly interested in education, and found this article fascinating: What if the key to success was failure? You'll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble. [body] 7 foods the experts won't eat. Are you eating them? My cousin Karen posted a link to this article on Facebook, and it…
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(photo from Nagesh Rao's Facebook page) I participated in Colleen Wainwright's amazing "50 for 50" project to raise money for WriteGirl, an LA-based nonprofit that supports girls and young women writers. For my contribution, I was to receive a custom poem by one of their mentees, a poem that young woman would write for me, or for someone of my…
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Hi, fabulous person. It's raining here in Asheville, and I'm holed up at my dining room table making big plans, cooking up some magic for 2012. I am SO EXCITED to show you my new website (very soon! squeeee!) and hope you love it. To make sure you do, I've got a few questions for you – just 10 short…
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The fact of the Penn State horror are simple and clear to me: No child should be raped. No child should be raped in a shower. No child should be raped in a shower by an adult he trusts. And no one watching that rape should sleep until they know that that child–and others like him–are safe. Whether they are…
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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.
