Moved my head

July 31, 2008 in Life is a Verb
Patti_with_verb Everyone who knows me jokes about how I don’t move my head. Perhaps you didn’t know that about me.

I am known for keeping very, very still. When I speak, my business partner David tells me that I plant my feet deep into the ground and become the Oracle of Delphi.

Another example: If you happened to (god forbid) cut your arm off or start hemorrhaging from the eyeball while we were eating BBQ tofu and kale salad for lunch one day, I’d likely very calmly just pull a tourniquet out of my "Keep Calm and Carry On" retro flight bag and stop the bleeding without blinking and with nary a yelp.

I’m not conscious of this trait until someone points it out. I don’t know why I don’t move my head, but because of it, I’m a great person to have around in a typhoon, for example. I’m a dynamite poker player. I perform well in those moments when the CEO decides he needs bacon wrapped scallops for a reception for 10,000 that starts in half an hour. I’m just sayin.

Today?

Moved my head.

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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