Thanks from a groupie

March 20, 2007 in Uncategorized

Many thanks for all the generous offers of help! It appears that Anne Lamott’s reading in Atlanta is sold out, so I won’t be able to ~~fling myself at her feet~~ see her read there.

Perhaps it’s all for the best, after all. Maybe it would have been like that time I hired a a famous leadership guru with bright white hair and a deep tan and initials that begin with W.B. to speak at a conference I was managing and he was such a horrible fit-thrower and mean-spirited jerk that I could never pick up another one of his books again and had to exile them from my home, then take a long, hot shower to get rid of the evilness. I’d really hate to mess up my Bird by Bird jube-jube. You know what I mean? So I’ll stay home and eat worms.

Thanks, though, to everyone who emailed – your willingness to help out was so fantastic! We should all just get together for brunch one Sunday in Atlanta anyway. We don’t need Anne Lamott in town to gather over some high-fat pastries, do we?

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.

4 comments to " Thanks from a groupie "


Nina

March 20, 2007 AT 5:30PM

Hi, I have always loved reading your thoughts and never commented, but do a get a gold star if I guess Warren Bennis was a meanie? I’m sorry…it stinks out loud when we are disappointed in how we think people are then they show us how they really are….

Chris Bailey

March 23, 2007 AT 2:09PM

Hello, Ms. Patti…just wanted to let you know that a certain Anne Lamott will be gracing my hometown of Austin, TX in May. If you can swing the airfare, I’ll provide the tickets, lodging, and a first-class tour of all things Austin. How can you go wrong? ;)

Kay

March 23, 2007 AT 3:04PM

You might like to know about Salon.com’s interview with Anne:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/03/21/lamott_walsh/index.html

patti digh

March 23, 2007 AT 10:16PM

Nina – I can neither confirm nor deny… ;-)

Chris – you really made me smile – i would so love to take you up on your fantastic offer! but i think Mr Brilliant might divorce me if I galavant around the country following Ms Lamott. I hope you might go and I can live vicariously through you…! thanks for the gracious, wonderful, warm invitation!

Kay – ooh, ooh, thank you!