GET OUT!
Do you know how close Decatur is to me?
Be still, my stinkin’ heart.
Is anyone going? Will you take me with you? I’ll be very, very quiet. Mainly because I’ll be hyperventilating.
Aw. I just checked the date. Can’t miss the first home game of the high school football season because my young ‘un will be marching with her sousaphone.
I’m sure Billy will understand.
Maybe I should call him just to make sure.
(Thanks, Howard, for the Billy Alert)
Hi Patti –
I live in Decatur and would be happy to meet up with you if you do decide to come. I emailed you about Billy’s appearance at the festival, but maybe it didn’t go through. I should have left it in the comments I guess. I really hope to see him and hope he doesn’t mind a 3.5 month old member of the audience who will have to come with me :o)
Leah
Oh, you definitely have to go to the home game and be there for your wonderful daughter!
And I must tell you that instead of writing a “personal” email to tell you that my copy of LIAV has arrived – OMG!!! – WOW!!! WOW!!!! WOW!!!!! I am totally excited. Not only do I have a personal copy of this fantabulous book, I also have a fantabulous book signed by the author of said fantabulous book. Not only that, she graciously provided (in her signature) the page upon which my meager offering of art was embedded.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!! WOW!!!!! WOW!!!!
OK, you may wonder why I’m “saying” WOW!!!! – anyway, I am so excited. I never in my whole life expected to be creating art, let alone being published in a fantastic book about life and death and leaving a legacy. My art is in the book. I got my copy today. My husband went to the post office box and came home and said, “You got a book today.”. OMG!!! I’ve been waiting forever (so it seems to me) for my copy of the book. I was thinking that I would be one of the many to be “just in the book – not really IN the book”; but my art piece is actually highlighted in the essay that I received and pondered over and worked on and actually completed and sent back to Patti. OMG!!!!!! WOW!!!! I’m still in denial, or really, I’m on cloud 9, or I’m “Over the moon!” or “I can’t believe I made it!!!!!”.
Can you tell, I’m positively thrilled to be published. Thank you, Patti!
I know my excitement is thrilling to me; but I also know that playing the sousaphone in the first game of the season must be a major thrill to your dear daughter. She’s been practicing and learing her part and practicing. I think she’s ready to be “published” so to speak. I know how thrilling it is to be published and I hope she feels like I do every time she plays her sousaphone at a game. Go Emma!!!
Thanks, Patti, for giving me this wonderful feeling of playing for the home team… OMG!!! I’ve been published and you actually liked my art and I’m in your book and I’m so excited. Thank you!
i live near decatur … and you faked me out … i thought you WERE coming ….. now i’m all disappointed … i’ll have to see billy by myself …. darn…..
congratulations victoria! and also to all the readers who had the courage to send art to be considered for patti’s book. my hat’s off to each and every one of you! i missed my chance but because you have inspired me i won’t let it happen the next time. thank you all, and thank you patti for inspiring all of us to begin with. with love–
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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.
