"Damn, girl. You write good." -Lee Hancock, Dallas Morning News
My newest book, LIFE IS A VERB, is now available!
My next book, Creative is a Verb: 37 Days to Unleash Your Inner Artist, is coming out in the Summer of 2010 and outlines Six Creative Commitments for living life as a creative act. To receive info and first news of when it's available, go here!
I can think of quite a few deserving folks that would love to have this book! I like to support my local bookstore so I will ask them to order it!
Ciao!
Tamera
I *do* love Harlan Ellison… and I’m thinkin’ the person that introduced me to his work would appreciate yours… hmmm…..
What a fabulous way to start my morning! I am blog browsing and I randomly came across ’37 Days’! I am going to curl up in a cozy corner with my laptop and start reading all of your posts from the beginning! And I LOVE the title of your book -‘Life is a Verb’. I must go and tell all my friends to come visit your blog! Keep on writing!
Yeah!
Said it so loud I scared the neighbors here in Iowa.
Keep creating…wild and wonderful thoughts,
Mike
Dear Patti,
I really love the poems that you highlight here on 37 days. As I’ve been reading them, another has sprung to mind that you might appreciate: Mrs Reece Laughs by Martin Armstrong. It’s a reminder of how joyful and transformative a real belly-laugh can be – something we’d do well to bear in mind in this troubled world.
Anyway, I just felt I should stop by to share it with you. I hope you’re having a good day today, and I’d like to wish you all the best in future.
Laughter, with us, is no great undertaking,
A sudden wave that breaks and dies in breaking.
Laughter with Mrs Reece is much less simple:
It germinates, it spreads, dimple by dimple
From small beginnings, things of easy girth,
To formidable redundancies of mirth.
Clusters of subterranean chuckles rise
And presently the circles of her eyes
Close into slits and all the woman heaves
As a great elm with all its mounds of leaves
Wallows before the storm. From hidden sources
A mustering of blind volcanic forces
Takes her and shakes her till she sobs and gapes.
Then all that load of bottled mirth escapes
In one wild crow, a lifting of huge hands,
And creaking stays, a visage that expands
In scarlet ridge and furrow.
Thence collapse,
A hanging head, a feeble hand that flaps
An apron-end to stir an air
And waft a steaming face.
And Mrs Reece has laughed.
Hey Patti! I haven’t been on here in a while. Congratulations on the book! I just ordered mine :)
I saw an amazing speaker/author at my UU church last night named Michael Dowd. He has a book I want to suggest for you as well, called Thank God For Evolution. He is traveling the country speaking to everyone from Atheists to Evangelicals about the ability to bring science and religion together as the next stage of human evolution. He has a darwin fish kissing a Jesus fish on his van. He says he gets some interesting looks as well as gestures for that one (I’m ordering the bumper sticker myself ;) If you’re interested, you can look him up at his website (same as the book title.)
I can’t wait to read your book next!!!!
Zen
I just preordered 2 copies from your site. I have to give one as a gift to a great lady (and mentor) who is near and dear to my heart. Without her I’d have never found you!
I have been wondering whether you have any intentions of having your book translated and published in other countries around the world.
Saturday Links of the Week: June 28, 2008
Did you write it? I love the cover.
Every time I blog talk about Billy Collins I think of you.
I can’t wait to get your book! Congrats!
I found you when I was searching for pictures of my main man, Billy Collins (who I’m apparently going to have to share with you!), to swipe for my blog — and became enamored with your blog!
Thanks so much! (and you can keep the Billy Collins photo :) )
Katie
This is incredibly exciting! Congratulations. I’ve been reading you for awhile, Patti, and I love your work which is why you have been awarded the Arte Y Pico Blog Award by me, Natasha at creativenachos.com! This award was created to be given to bloggers who inspire others with their creativity, and for contributing to the blogging world in whatever medium. Please visit creativenachos.com for the rules for award acceptance. Keep sharing with the world…you’re inspiring.
Congratulations! I’m looking forward to its release. I had not read your blog until today and am enchanted. As a woman who was once given 90 days to live and somehow survived, I can relate and yet it’s so easy to allow oneself to get caught in the hubba labboo. Enjoy another summer afternoon in the hammock. :-)
Dear Patti
I’ve just ordered the book from my local indpendent bookseller. http://www.word-power.co.uk in Edinburgh am looking forward to getting it !
mary
As you know, I got the book(s) and was more impressed than I even thought I would be. I just wrote a review on Amazon.
Forgive my impatience, just wondering if you could let me know when my preorder might ship – purchased in June through your store…I emailed the link through the website last week but got no response. I”m usually better at waiting, but all these posts and reviews and pictures have me just crazy impatient to get my copy :)
Patti, the book arrived yesterday….I stayed up past midnight with it…
Congratulations!!! It is wonderful…
x..x
IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!! I have a perpetual grin on my face and tears in my eyes! I am so honored to have my artwork in this amazing book! Thank you so much! Now, off to start reading and doing………..
If I had only 37 days to live, I’d stop worrying about teaching middle school another four years just so I could get school health insurance. I’d smile at the kids, especially the obnoxious ones, and walk out the door. I guess I’d call for a substitute first. I’d spend my time snuggling with my Sweet Man, Franklin, my cats–Coco and Chanel, my daughter Mary Ellen. I’d try to understand my sister, Ann and my daughter-in-law, Merrilyn. Then I would buy a place with a beach front view and write every morning, even if it were
bad stuff–I would write my heart out. Truths which transcend time and space and love would bleed onto my papers. Then I’d walk into the sunset on the beach I hold
close in my heart, Ft. Caswell, North Carolina.
Congratulations Patti!
I feel like a happy witness at the birth of a friend’s baby. Lots of emotions ran through me when I opened the package you sent: amazement, joy, gratitude. A whole gamut of feelings flashed through me as I gazed upon your book for the first time.
Your words shine into the reader with a warm glow.
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to be a part of this!
Linda
boy am i out of touch with the mainstream .. it all just seems like ego-based cheerleading with nice art .. life is fine, needs nothing from us .. cannot in fact be improved upon, and we are that.
hi gregory – thanks for the food for thought…and for sharing your perspective. I wonder if “ego-based cheerleading” is a phrase borne of a deep knowledge of my work? Or is it a somewhat superficial assessment? As I read your note, I wonder if language such as that is intended to share truth or be hurtful? In either case, you’ve given me something to think about, so my thanks for that. – patti
The book is beautiful! Congratulations!!
I have purchased my copy of “Life is a Verb” and some copies for my friends.
I am delighted and inspired to live a more intentional life after reading your blog and starting your book.
Thank you for sharing your legacy with all of us.
Patti speaks…
Viv and Geoff have done a podcast with Patti Digh, author of the newly minted Life is a Verb. I’m a big fan of Patti so there’s lots in here that I like. Here’s what she says about her work…
So excited I will be able to go to the reading in Seattle. I turned a work friend on to your blog and I’m flying in from London for work today.
I’ll be beyond jetlagged, but it will be worth it!
Patti,
I stopped breathing as I read the last pages of 37 days. In those pages you said things I’ve needed to say OUT LOUD for a long time. Thank you and Lydia (of ninecooks.com) who gave me the book knowing that I would quickly read it cover to cover.
So sad I wasn’t able to make the Seattle reading. Kelli told me that you had a little gifty for me. Thank you so much! So sweet. I’m really looking forward to seeing what it is and the book.
Kelli said she was up until 2 in the AM reading it and that it is really beautiful.
I hope the book tour is going well!
xx
I learned about your book from Leah at Creative every day…I went to Amazon and read excerpts of it and sat and cried.
So beautifully written, so touching…touched my heart…I do want to own it and I want to gift it too.
Congratulations on a book so well done…
I’m glad Leah’s illustrations are also a part of this beautiful tome.
I’ve got amazon open in another browser tab! Can’t wait to get my copy!
Congrats. I love the cover too! :)
After linking to your blog from another site and reading about your book, I thought I would check it out on Amazon.com. and planned on purchasing it with my next order.
Then after a very L O N G week, I was dragging around the GROCERY store late late last night trying to mentally conjur my list of needs….and there was your book! This is so incredible because I live in a little town in the middle of Nevada…we don’t normally have “current” anything. What synchronicity! The book is mine. Thank you!
Hi. Tonight saw copies of the book prominently displayed at my local supermarket (Randall’s–which is owned by Safeway). So, you are getting distribution in Houston, Texas. Haven’t checked Barnes & Noble yet, but assume the one near my house will have a few copies.
Congratulations, my friend! Being in company with Randy Pausch is certainly fine company, indeed. Best of luck to you!
Whoa, whoa, whoa! You’re in league with the late Randy Pausch? That is huge. Congratulations!!! I will be thinking of you that day. It feels like someone I (almost) know is going to the Oscars.
I just love and support the differentiation between “self-help” vs. “soul-help” in reference to your book. Congratulations.
I received Life is a Verb just exactly 37 days before the New Year… hmmmm…. so I read an entry a day (just finished it on new year’s eve)- Great way to finsh (and begin) a New Year! Thanks for the great read, inspirational thoughts, and thanks to all the artists who contributed artwork- I loved seeing the responses to the essays from third person views. That was a very unique and very touching thing to include.
Patti I’m not sure if my original comment went through so I’ll repeat it I guess. I was lucky enough to discover your book two days ago and it was all so serendipitous that I blogged about it. I hope if you have a moment you will pop over and read the story. The post is titled “Serendipity”
I came across your blog today as a link from the Ornamentea newsletter (highlighting your April 3 visit). I am a Amazon.com book purchaser normally but I HAD to have your book today and called several bookstores till I found a copy in stock. Having recently lost my Step Father (Aug 2007) and my Mom (Sept 2008) I have experienced an awakening of my own. You are writing what I wish I could say. Thank you for your book. I hope to have you sign my copy (if I haven’t filled the pages by then) in April. All the best to you.
I see I’m about a year late in commenting – but that’s OK. I just watched the little video and I burst into tears. I had to watch it twice because I was so overcome with emotion. I’m always amazed when that happens.
I’ll be looking for this book this weekend.
Kristin
I can’t wait to hear all about it! I am new to your blog and I’m in the middle of reading your book so I am interested in everything you do! Thanks! (I’m off to buy 5 packages of birthday candles today! )
I ordered your book last week and have been enjoying it this weekend. Thank you! I have to tell you that I realized right away that I could write in the margins and was quite pleased. Then I got to the part where you talk about the margins :) I was so pleased I had noticed before you mentioned it! Cheap thrills lol
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In 2005, Patti Digh started her blog, 37days, following the death of her stepfather who died just 37 days after being diagnosed with cancer. Six books about living mindfully followed. And there’s more to come.
