your daily rock : celebrate with wild abandon!

July 27, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

If you look for them, there are things to celebrate wildly every single day.

In our house, we sometimes run out of vital supplies like toilet paper, light bulbs, and Häagen Dazs Dulce de Leche ice cream, but 365 days a year you can be sure of finding a rather impressive supply of birthday candles on hand for impromptu celebrations. You lived through the swim test? Your pancakes tomorrow morning will come to you in a blaze of glory. Today you’re celebrating your half birthday? Get ready for a half-cake after dinner. It’s the first snow of the season, National Light Bulb Day, new haircut day, leap year? Lighted cupcakes will no doubt line the floor from your bedroom to the dining table tomorrow morning. You survived your evil 5th grade teacher who shall remain nameless? How about Cheerios with candles stuck through them for breakfast? You learned to tie your shoes? You fell off your horse and got back on? You read a 1,600 page book? You learned to cover your mouth when you cough? There are candles in your immediate future.

Everyday, ordinary, daily life should be a rambunctious celebration, a focus on the positive, a paean to possibility and glee.

Stock up on birthday candles. Use them with wild abandon.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

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.