Day 25 :: Sail on the Sea of No Control
I received a lovely letter from Serbia: Dear Patti, I have been reading your blog for two years now and each time it feels like walking by a waterfall: refreshing and purifying and deepening and asking for more… I also want to thank you for having enriched my general culture …
My own diving board
Okay, truly? I’m going to stop all this new book nonsense soon and sit my butt down in the chair and start writing again. Really. Real soon. Like tomorrow or the next month. But today, I started out the door to go to buy the largest bag of baby carrots …
Hear the 37days story
Through the marvels of modern technology (hey, I can even do email!), you can now listen to the 37days story. Either click on that link or look in the top left column of this blog–see where it says "First Time Here?" — just click on "Hear the 37days story." My …
Oh, my. Life is a bird!
Mary Meares first told me on Twitter. "Amazon has paired LIAV with Bird by Bird!" she wrote. In my enfeebled old age, I hate to admit it, but it took me a little while to figure out what LIAV was. Um. Life is a Verb. GET OUT! Having convinced myself …
Day 26 :: Eat a ripe, ripe peach
"Today is my day to die. For 37 days I have lived as I was meant to live. I have overslept, overspent and used up all of the free samples I had been saving for later. I lived these last days without judgment and anger, and my body liked this. …
4,000 is my lucky number – and a request for help
Sometimes, the universe just makes me smile. Mr Brilliant and I have been wondering all week who would leave the 4,000th comment on 37days. It stayed at 3,999 for a day, and then I awoke this morning to find that someone had tipped the scale to 4,000. Who was that …
Day 27 :: Catch others, be catchable yourself
I read this on another blog today and asked the author, Amy Estes, if I could post it here as part of our 37 day countdown. It will give you another perspective on your 37 days, I believe. It might open the door for you to ask for help, to …
DAY 28 :: Cultivate enough-ness, record your wonder
About two weeks ago I was looking out over the Welsh countryside at this vista of the rolling hills, dotted with sheep and little lambies. I painted it in my journal to remember the view from my window. If I knew I had only 37 days to live I think …
DAY 29 :: Embrace your ordinary wonders
Prayer Let my last 37 daysbe ordinary wonders –with early mornings on the patiodrinking black coffee,and afternoons scrubbing scum off dingy bathroom tiles,or folding still warm laundry.Let them be filled with the familiar –old photos peppering side tables,my daughter’s winsome smile,and the sound of my husband snoring.Let them be full …
DAY 30 :: Change your verbs!
The lessons I took from this essay by Terry Hartley were profound: "By my 50th birthday, my mother, my sister, my best friend of 40 years, my father and my ex-husband were missed and missing from my life. The last 37 days for each person was as different as …
