Verbs everywhere!
Terry got a call from her local bookstore in California–her copy was in! Her precious little granddaughter Leah has evidently called first dibs on the book. And Terry also sent a picture of Life is a Verb on the shelf. So fabulous. And, wait. What are all those other books …
We are hardwired for story
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. -James A. Barrie As this recent podcast interview about Life is …
Day 19 :: Stand on a riverbank with one you love
"The soundtrack for my last days would be Country interspersed with Classical. There would always be fresh, yellow flowers in vases around me. There would be massage. A lotta massage. Massage makes my aches go away and my days much more pleasant. There would be a Christmas tree. I love …
Day 20 :: Meet a real cowboy
"A few months after a very frightening experience with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, I found myself sitting in a freshman honors English course at the university I had planned on attending one semester earlier. The professor was a passionate and intelligent woman, determined to lead our young minds toward the bigger picture. …
More Verb sightings!
Looks like Life is a Verb is hitting the East coast as well–Ellouise from Maryland and Brenda from North Carolina, (who calls her photograph, "Love; love" or "Love, all") have both received their copies! Ellouise writes: "It’s beautiful, warm, and wonderful – a group of women working together to make …
Verb sightings!
I’ve been delighted to see that Life is a Verb is finding its way around the country. Mary in Alabama talked her unsuspecting UPS man into posing as he delivered her copy, and then Connie and Kathy from Oklahoma both sent photos (those UPS men and women in brown in …
Day 21 :: Savor the pink light
Mieke Krynauw wrote to me from South Africa: "I’ve attached a poem I wrote this morning in which I try to grapple a little with the idea of what I’m trying to achieve in my life – as a person, as a daughter, as a lawyer working to protect and …
Day 22 :: Tell them
From Roy Mullins in Texas comes this contribution to our understanding of mortality, those messages we must pass along: “What an overwhelming sense of urgency, incompleteness and enormity of unfinished business crashes about one at the mere inkling of ’37 days.’ But then, after the panic passes, the sense of …
Day 23 :: Let yourself full body sing
"This Monday, driving to work, I realized that I had not sung in over a week. Really sung. Not humming along to a tune but a closed eyed, body sing. I haven’t put myself first and have let all the worries and troubles of life overshadow what makes me happy. …
Day 24 :: Don’t regret your fall on the cobblestones; don’t fall prey to the fallacy of separateness
"Today, 08.08.08 is my sixty-third birthday, and I don’t know which of the 37 days it is but let’s say one of them. I would be doing exactly what I’m doing, sitting in bed with my right arm propped on top of four pillows and an ice pack, looking at …
