sunday sounds : a love song to nature
Someone posted this in a comment on my Facebook wall this week, and I cannot get it out of my head, so I am sharing the addiction with you. It is a love song, with much of the love directed at nature. Every Sunday, you’ll find a Sunday Sound here …
Your life is the vision board. Better get a new glue stick.
Such anticipation! The stack of magazines is ready. My glue sticks are standing at attention. The making of the vision board is about to begin. What’s this I see on the top shelf of the closet? 2012’s vision board? I’m still not that thin, well nourished, rested, empowered, abundant. My house …
When you break open, it happens by surprise
This is what broke me open. The heart attack didn’t do it. The complications from the heart cath and stent of a 90% blocked major artery didn’t do it. A hole in my femoral artery didn’t do it. My disbelief and anger at being told it was all in my …
poetry wednesday: you know that otherwise is coming.
From my hospital bed to you, an old favorite by poet Jane Kenyon: Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All …
No, you are not an hysterical female, and this is not just anxiety.
You could die if you don’t advocate for your own healthcare. Even if you’re being called “mental.” As if there’s anything wrong with being “mental” anyway.
poetry wednesday: the truth about words in a certain order
Anybody Can Write a Poem -Bradley Paul I am arguing with an idiot online. He says anybody can write a poem. I say some people are afraid to speak. I say some people are ashamed to speak. If they said the pronoun “I” they would find themselves floating in the …
Happy 11th birthday and a joyous welcome home
In 2005 on this very date, I sat down at a bulky, old, desktop computer in my family room surrounded by the noise of living, and started writing. The computer was on a file cabinet, not a desk, with no space for my legs, so I sat sideways, typing. At …
Writing for Healing and Discernment by the Sea: A VerbTribe Intensive for the New Year
January 24-29, 2016 SOLD OUT. Email support@pattidigh.com if you would like to be on the wait list or are interested in a future such retreat. Start your 2016 off right with a tribe of writers and creatives by the sea. This “wild card retreat” was created to help all of us write …
my declaration of in(ter)dependence
Independence Day. It is, like many U.S. holidays, lost in part to beer and fireworks and sales, the meaning diluted or held up as a siren song for Us vs Them chest-thumping talk, the kind of talk that inevitably ends in war, in order for another independence to be won. …
