your daily rock : bend.

January 21, 2014 in Daily Rock, General

I was in Las Vegas for a conference. Largely pregnant with Emma who would be born six weeks later.

A large earthquake hit Los Angeles. And the reverberations made their way to Vegas at 5am. The clothing in the closet of my hotel room on the 19th floor started swaying back and forth. I ran around the room, frantic, calling John. The water in the toilet was sloshing onto the floor. Other guests were running toward the stairway and heading to ground level. Parts of the hotel’s ceiling had collapsed, I would find out later.

The reason the whole hotel didn’t come down in those moments of stress?

It was built to bend.

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.