your daily rock : keep it very simple

January 4, 2014 in Daily Rock, General

I used to create wildly elaborate lists of resolutions, goals, intentions. I’m a list maker. I like making lists and checking things off of them willy-nilly. I liked the challenge of it, the feeling of moving forward, the learning.

This year there are no lists. Well, one. With two items on it.

Like the story I told a few years ago about Toni Morrison’s “to-do” list, I wrote all mine out. Every single thing in a black or red ruled Moleskine notebook, using this method (which is a great practice, by the way). And like her, I read through every item on that list. And like her, I reduced it to two things I must do or I will die:

Be a mother to my children.

Write.

No long lists for me in 2014. I’m keeping it very simple.

Maybe you will consider the beauty of that too.

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.