Start handing out stars.
In just 3 minutes, she has done what I tried to do in the 240 pages of Life is a Verb. The hardest thing about having nothing is having nothing to give. Start handing out stars. This is for saying yes. Powerful. My thanks to Kathryn Gunn for pointing me …
This is what you are. What you’ve come to.
The Little Book of Hand Shadows –Deborah Digges from Rough Music You who began inside me,see a tortoise, a stork, a wolf come out of my hand. Stand behind me, your shadow eclipsingmy shadow. Make the cock crow by opening and closing two fingers.We can be anyone now. We can …
16 days to go.
Only 16 days left on this 37days challenge? How is that possible? I hope these days have shown you something about yourself that you couldn't have otherwise known unless you made a promise to yourself and kept it. Or broke it. We cannot look outside ourselves for the answer. I've …
A few words on the soul
A few words on the soul –Wislawa Szymborska We have a soul at times. No one’s got it non-stop, for keeps. Day after day, year after year may pass without it. Sometimes it will settle for awhile only in childhood’s fears and raptures. Sometimes only in astonishment that we are …
Patti the pirate.
Cindy Bock posted this with a note to me on Facebook today. It made me laugh out loud. That, um, is my face on Jack Sparrow's body. It made Mr Brilliant spit out his coffee. I think Johnny Depp would approve. And, by the way, it's just one sleep until …
Bring Tori home with your hope, love, and prayers
Ruth Davis, a longtime reader of 37days wrote today, attaching this photograph: The attached photo is of Victoria (Tori) Stafford. She is an 8 year old member of my community and never returned home from school last Wednesday. They believe now, that she has been abducted. I do not know her but …
The pattern underlies the doing.
In only 20 days, we'll finish this 37days challenge. Perhaps we've done what we said we would these past 17 days. Perhaps not. But the learning isn't really the doing or not doing, no. It's not even whether we fulfill our promise to ourselves that we will do one thing …
Visit your possible life.
Going There-Jack GilbertOf course it was a disaster.The unbearable, dearest secrethas always been a disaster.The danger when we try to leave.Going over and over afterwardwhat we should have doneinstead of what we did.But for those short timeswe seemed to be alive. Misled,misused, lied to and cheated,certainly. Still, for thatlittle while, …
Bet on me.
In December, I was hosted by Dr. Delaney Kirk for a series of workshops and readings in Tampa, St Pete, and Sarasota, Florida. Delaney was an incredible host, arranging readings in three different bookstores as well as a diversity workshop at a local university and a role as a guest …
