thinking thursday.

March 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

mind :: my brain and yours

Can teachers be taught to teach better? (Thanks to Connie Knapp)

Happiness by proxy. "Consulting the experience of another person, a surrogate, in deciding whether something will make you happy…. They discovered that the direct experience of another person trumps the conjecturing of our own minds." Hmmm. Is this because we are so attuned to finding meaning and the "how" outside ourselves? (Thanks to Laura Thomas)

Progress toward a multiracial nation

body :: my place and yours

These colors and textures just made me happy. Someone make this for me. And, well, shut me up.

Making vegetarian version of this soup. Yes I am. (Thanks to Kelly Pressley Kienle)

Oh, Edward.

Here's a theory of evolution I could really get excited about. And oh, for cute.

If you like hot dogs like Kathryn Ruth Schuth likes hot dogs, you might enjoy this. Vegetarians, avert your eyes.

soul :: my heart and yours

Oh how I love, love, love this. (Thanks to Tana Butler)

I hope I'm wearing a hat like that when I'm 114 years old.

Each single one of them a beautiful amazing human with exquisite joys and pains and loves just like you and me, connected to all kinds of other humans in ways we can never, ever really know.

What do you say to a screaming bigot?

A final thought :: Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. -Mignon McLaughlin

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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.