your daily rock : love your layers

It’s interesting to think about our lives as layers, strata of emotion and body and events, like the cut-open side of a mountain where we can see the different colors of earth, each building upon the one below, the one inside.

While we might prefer to hate or get rid of or deny some layers, they are vital to the whole, keeping the cake from collapsing, the mountain from crumbling.

As Anais Nin said, “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.”

Love all those layers.

Love,

patti signature on white

 

(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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