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a wrung sponge makes a plan…

September 8, 2008 in Life is a Verb

My thanks to Cloudscome for reviewing LIAV on her blog, a wrung sponge, today! She is "a librarian posting about multiculti kid’s books, poetry, knitting, her garden and gluten free cooking." I love her ripe fig haiku, her commitment to her 365 Photo Blog and her tagline: "There’s a poet let loose in the library…"

I also love the action step she defined for herself in the process of reading Verb:

"As I was reading through the book I found many areas of challenge that I would like to follow up. I decided to just chose one thing to do for the next 37 days, with the hope that I can keep my life simplified and challenged at the same time. September is a hard time to take up additional challenges, what with all of us back in school and our schedules so hectic. I’ve decided to commit to spending at least 10 minutes a day with my sons doing nothing but listening and watching them. As part of my 365 photo project I’ll probably be photographing them. As busy as we are, it’s the little times together that often get cut so I think this focus will be an island of connection for all of us."

My thanks for your wonderful review, for helping to spread the word about Life is a Verb, for showing how to make the action steps in it your own, and for the inspiration for what to do with all those figs in my backyard!

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.

1 comment to " a wrung sponge makes a plan… "


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September 9, 2008 AT 6:04AM

You have figs too? YAY! You’ve got to cook them up into a jam (just stew them for about 20 minutes with a little lemon juice and sugar) and try some on pancakes. To. Die. For. I am going to have a PB & Fig sandwich for lunch today.

Yesterday I played basketball with my sons and photographed them. Then we made pizza (Gluten Free, from scratch) together. Sweetest evening we’ve shared in a while. Thanks for VERB.