thinking thursday.

May 16, 2013 in General

mind

One question that changes everything: “I wondered what it would be like to ask myself, ‘What could (potentially) be good about this?’ when facing challenging situations.”

And another question that changes everything: “One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: ‘What does this experience make possible?'”

body

Well, IS HE? “Food choices have become important political acts, with deep moral and environmental consequences. As self-righteous and irritating as this attitude can sometimes feel, it’s still speaking to a very real and scary truth. With rising obesity rates, a destructive system of factory farming, and terror-inducing 24/7 news stories about antibiotics in chicken and E. coli in spinach, many people have come to feel that their own food choices are among the most meaningful life decisions they can make.”

I am a design and typography nerd. Perhaps you are too. “The power of a card as a visual-organization metaphor, the secret of its infiltration,’ said Duarte, is that ‘it makes very clear the atomic unity of things; it’s still flexible while creating a kind of regularity.'”

I am very interested in learning more about this link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease, and am thinking about the implications for my diet and exercise.

Likewise, this list of how to improve brain function is important to me. I’m doing well on numbers 2, 8, 9, 10, and the others need work.

This food right here is on my mind.

soul

Perhaps you will recognize your definition of joy in these.

Sit every day: “The findings are striking—if we practice something, it will rewire our brains, creating a new neural pathway.” This is a very helpful entry point for creating a meditation practice.

Just because I’m missing him.

word

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” -Anaïs Nin

(photo of the first radish I ever grew, 5/16/13)

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.