“In today’s world, no one gets lost anymore. We pull up a GPS on our cell phones, type in our destination, and get step-by-step directions to where we want to go. Many of us also have a mental map, a personal GPS, telling us where we want to go in our life. It’s great to have an idea of where we want to go in our life. It’s great to have an idea of how to get there, but you can gain even more when you veer off your map.” -Rabbi Julie Wolkoff, in What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom for a Happy Life
My friend Jodi Cohen once told me about a friend who stood at the edge of the Grand Canyon, fiddling with his GPS, saying, “I don’t know where we are.”
“We’re right here,” she told him. “We’re right here.”
Magic can happen when we get lost.
Turn off your GPS. Let yourself be right here.
Love,
(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.)
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.
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ABOUT PATTI
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.
