Record your temperature

July 11, 2007 in Uncategorized

Always proud to be involved in something historic, I’m pleased to announce that I am participating – albeit without that grand, modern invention of air conditioning – in record temperatures in Portland, Oregon. I hate to admit it – and I’ll work on changing this unfortunate piece of my personality – but I get just plain grumpy when it goes over 101.

And so, this fair morning, a quote from Buddha: "The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze."

From my heat haze to yours.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

5 comments to " Record your temperature "


dan

July 11, 2007 AT 1:11PM

…and you have this thing called ‘humidity’ there as I recall. I think I’ll settle for our 110s of last week and drink more Gatorade…

Kate I

July 11, 2007 AT 1:36PM

The course you’re teaching and the institute itself, sound wonderful and will be on my wish list of soul enriching things to do…maybe next year. Hope you’ll be back to teach again…and “stay cool”!

Terri

July 11, 2007 AT 6:19PM

Hi Patti, I just discovered your blog (I know, where have I been?) and have enjoyed catching up. What a wonderful effort and thank you for sharing your great, funny thoughts. I especially loved your jeans essay for skirt mag. That was so poignant. I have a pair of those too, from when I weighed 105lbs and last felt *adequate*, you know, physically, in this retarded world that doesn’t appreciate a perfectly lovely woman. You wondered if maybe it isn’t the jeans, but rather something else that has gone missing. What has gone missing is being a girl. You are no longer a girl, and I am not, and that is the sad bit, because the ideal woman you see is a girl. Not a woman at all! So, if I had 37 days, I would like to think that finally, maybe I would finally love myself, that maybe I would finally realize that THIS (i.e. me) is enough. And I would be so mad that I spent so much time worrying that I am not enough. I would finally, maybe, realize that I am precious as I am, this body, this age, this face, these choices.
Thank you for writing that essay. It made me realize that I really need to stop thinking about those jeans in my closet, or whatever metaphor I use for “the girl I used to be”. That girl is gone and in her place, a perfectly perfect woman. You too ;)

tallulah

July 11, 2007 AT 11:50PM

My family was on vacation in Newport last week (brrr…55 degrees)and then we traveled to Portland to visit the Zoo and then hop on a plane home. The heat was a nice change but MUCH warmer than usual then when I usually visit there. All of the locals at the Zoo were visibly miserable and grumpy. You are not the only one!

Joy

July 12, 2007 AT 10:53AM

One word: Vornado. Their fans are small and fantastic.