her purse of intentions.

VerbTribe has been an extraordinary journey for me as a teacher, and for those who have joined it. As we close our first 37-day journey into writing, I am featuring writing from VerbTribe members here on 37days. Writer Jill Davis offered us this look inside her purse, and into her. Today is Jill’s birthday–happy birthday! Keep making strong offers into the world!

This lady does know how to dump a purse. She is the one who cleans her purse by dumping it in a box, taking out what she needs, and postpones cleaning out the box unless she is looking for something. She has four plastic food containers from KFC because they are just right to store tidbits from expensive restaurants, she has actually never used them for this purpose. In her purse is an autographed copy of 12 New Steps For A New Millennium, by Dr. William Kent Larkin, and Brene’ Brown’s book, I Thought It Was Just Me. She has a checkbook with carbons because she will never slow down long enough to record an amount in a check book. The small blue purse holds her customer cards and frequent shopper cards. She never uses them because she always asks for another one and just presents ten Starbucks cards to redeem her free coffee. She seems to me full of intentions…hum….the purse itself she got out of necessity and was prepared to pay the 35 bucks on the tag, but when she got to the counter, found it was on sale for five bucks.

-Jill Davis

[Photo by Jill Davis]

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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