Does all this stuff make you happy?
The August issue of Skirt! magazine features an essay from 37days – "Let go of your legal pad" – perhaps you will enjoy it. Perhaps it will prompt you to finally get rid of that dress you bought in 1976 for that magical moment when you lost that last 10 …
DAY 31 :: Embrace the can’t know
PS Pirro sent this gorgeous look at what we can’t know in life–the ways in which our lives are shaped by the things we cannot know about the decisions we make–or don’t make, the trips to the store for cat litter that we take or don’t take: "Here is what …
DAY 32 :: Run to them, hold them
From Suzanne Kaye: If I had 37 days… I’d run to my son and hold him for a long time. I’d tell him that he is the greatest miracle in my life and that being his mother is the most important thing I’ve ever done. I’d tell him that I …
TOUR SCHEDULE
Bookstores and book groups and readers of 37days are inviting LIFE IS A VERB into their community! As readings and book group parties and just plain people parties are announced, this list will be updated. I’d love to meet you. And I’d hate to do a book reading to a …
Moved my head
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 …
Have I mentioned lately how much I love the FedEx man?
One guess about what’s in the boxes. Waiting for Mr Brilliant to get home before we open them. Turns out, the publisher expects that some bookstores will have LIFE IS A VERB as early as next week. I know they are shipping to Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon, and independent …
DAY 33 :: Love as if you will be answered
If I had only 37 days left I would… Call everyone I know and cry about having only 37 days leftTry to figure out a way to extend the 37 days to at least 38, if not 39Fly everyone I love in to sit on my bed with meTouch people …
DAY 34 :: Fly
You have had the audacity to take on human form and you are delighted. But the human form has ten thousand changes that never come to an end. Your joys, then, must be uncountable. – Chuang Tsu"If I am to change again, then let me embrace change. That is my …
DAY 35 :: Do one thing on your list
Laura McCloskey from Canada writes: "To tell a 23-year-old that she has but 37 days to live, and to ask her what she might do with those final days, is unfathomable, incomprehensible, mindboggling crazy talk (at least for this self-presumed invincible 23-year-old!). And yet, if today was Day One of …
