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upcoming fabulosity

This is what 37 days of mindful eating and moving looks like. Day 1, Day 37. I’m so excited about these three upcoming “events”: 1. Calling artisans and craftspeople to consider being part of my new Patti Digh Designs for Life online store! Visibility for you = tools for mindful …

make your art your life.

  I am very, very excited about this. I hope you will be too. If you are an artist or craftsperson, I hope you’ll read about this new venture–I would love to have you involved, if it’s of interest.  

in the book of life, may your name be written in the adventure section.

In 2008 around this time, I went to Madison, Wisconsin, to stand in a beautiful bookstore and weep like a river, like a weeping willow, like a woman who is reading a story aloud for the first time and realizing how very much it means to her. A man named …

remember.

  I am not interested in political statements or warnings or diatribes on this eleventh anniversary of 9/11. I’m not inclined to write a post about how we’ve lost our way in these past 11 years, about how the terrorists have won if their goal was to irretrievably break this …

37 days.

I just realized last night that the time frame between John’s cancer diagnosis and his upcoming surgery is… 37 days.

a dream of rebirth : stage one

Here is my Facebook status from yesterday afternoon: Never have I been so happy to see these two words in such close proximity: “stage” and “one.” Surgery soon. As I mentioned on 3x3x365 today, it might have been otherwise. I am so fully aware of that. John’s surgery will be …

closing registration for Project 137

  UPDATE: The last of the 1,000 tickets sold out in an hour last night. If you want info should seats open up, please join the wait list here. There is something amazing happening in Project 137. I hardly know how to describe it. Perhaps it is the magic of …

community, a structure of belonging.

This outpouring of love is like nothing I’ve known. Henri Nouwen has written that “Community is not a talent show in which we dazzle the world with our combined gifts. Community is the place where our shared poverty is acknowledged and accepted, not as something we have to learn to …

holy macaroni. something is happening.

Over 700 people are participating in Project 137, a learning community I’m hosting to love well, live fully, let go deeply, and make a difference. Here’s why I’m doing it. I hope you’ll join us. Every day is day one, so it’s never too late to start. The power of …

raise your hand. declare who you are.

Tess started the fourth grade on Wednesday. She marched forward into her day. And her desk was wobbly. That might not seem like a big deal, but to Tess it was. She found it hard to focus on anything else, she said, except for the girl who sat next to …