Joyful wrecks and strength to your sword arm…
One of the greatest gifts of 37days and now Life is a Verb? All the amazing people I have met, both virtually and in person, from around the world. Artists and moms and sons and people like you and me facing mortality or denying it…people embracing this one wild and …
Sign your own permission slip for life
Photographer Ann Torrence contributed a wonderful piece of art for Life is a Verb, and now a marvelous essay as part of the LIAV Blog Tour ’08. Here’s an excerpt: I was raised in a maternal lineage whose motto was "Oh no, I couldn’t." The constraints of Germanic heritage, Catholic …
Principled Innovation and Verbs
My thanks to an old friend, Jeff De Cagna, for participating so wonderfully in the Life is the Verb Blog Tour ’08. Jeff recorded a podcast of an interview we did earlier this week for sharing today on his deeply thought-provoking Principled Innovation blog. His fantastic questions remind me how …
Live like you are dying
Over the past 37 days, we have learned so many lessons from so many places in the world. So many essays poured in to answer the question, "What would I be doing today if I only had 37 days to live?" Thirty-seven were posted here, to give us a glimpse …
Armchair traveling at its best…
As you may have noticed, Life is a Verb is wandering around the Blogosphere this month as fantastic bloggers from around the world take on the task of writing about the book–I hope you will not only enjoy their reviews, the ways they are incorporating the lessons of the book …
a wrung sponge makes a plan…
My thanks to Cloudscome for reviewing LIAV on her blog, a wrung sponge, today! She is "a librarian posting about multiculti kid’s books, poetry, knitting, her garden and gluten free cooking." I love her ripe fig haiku, her commitment to her 365 Photo Blog and her tagline: "There’s a poet …
A long table of happy people, glasses of beer and wine, suspenders, hats with feathers… we must be in Germany!
I have a beautiful little 37days shrine made of metal and beads displayed in my dining room–along with many of the pieces of art from Life is a Verb–this one made and sent to me by artist Tari June Goerlitz who is living in Germany. For those of you with …
Day 1 :: Jump into the mess, revel in it
[We are SO going to pretend that time has reversed itself–like when Calvin becomes Stupendous Man in Calvin & Hobbes and turns back the clock–and we’re going to act like I didn’t get waylaid in my countdown, what with the new school year and trying to find vegan alternatives to …
Words, for a change
One of the artists in Life is a Verb, Megan Lane, collaborated with her nephew to create a beautiful illustration for the essay about giving free hugs. Megan is participating on the LIAV Blog Tour-a-palooza this month and her post about Life is a Verb appears today on her photo …
From Edinburgh to Frederick!
"Here is a photo of me with your book in Henderson’s Restaurant in Edinburgh Scotland. I’m sorry there isn’t a more Scottish background — a nice woolly highland cow, heathery hillside or someone playing the pipes! The photo was taken by Rhiannon Connelly of Starry Blue Sky. All the best, …
