your daily rock : let yourself yearn

February 18, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

“We are the yearning creatures of this planet.” -Robert Olen Butler

Writer Robert Olen Butler explains that the plot of any story is a yearning meeting a series of obstacles. The story doesn’t move forward without that desire–or without those barriers. So let yourself yearn, that deepest form of desire, and let yourself embrace the obstacles that move your story forward.

Don’t live so much in your head that you lose track of yearning, and don’t run from the obstacles.

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.

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Something Good | A Thousand Shades of Gray

February 25, 2013 AT 1:10PM

[…] explains that the plot of any story is a yearning meeting a series of obstacles,” (from Your Daily Rock on 37 Days). This makes total sense to […]