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Re: This is the strongest offer I have ever made.

Patti Digh — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:13:14 -0000

Thanks for letting me know - it should be working now! I'm so excited about it too! Hope you can come!!

Re: This is the strongest offer I have ever made.

Patti Digh — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:12:54 -0000

Thanks for letting me know - it should be working now!

Re: tuesday reads

Patti Digh — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:37:10 -0000

"Room" was stunning, wasn't it?

Re: thoughts about love, and about regret.

Patti Digh — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:56:39 -0000

oh, but she knew. xoxo

Re: thoughts about love, and about regret.

Patti Digh — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:56:22 -0000

I am not sure of the intentional bad choice framing either - or in the moment, those choices don't seem intentional; perhaps that's it. And yes, we can choose to feed it or not.

Re: thoughts about love, and about regret.

Patti Digh — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:55:10 -0000

Yes, that's it - if we can be in the moment, we can step out of regret. So easy to say, and sometimes so hard to do.

Re: thoughts about love, and about regret.

Patti Digh — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:54:27 -0000

ah, yes. what would have been. maybe regret keeps us out of the "now..."

Re: thoughts about love, and about regret.

Patti Digh — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:53:19 -0000

what a powerful image of those three reaching for each other with outstretched hands. what will it take to thaw?

Re: thoughts about love, and about regret.

Patti Digh — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:52:26 -0000

Thanks, Chris. Yes, definitely don't see the pie as intentional wrongdoing. Sorry if it seemed that way. And your description of your mom's intentions were exactly my own mother's at the time. Thanks for your very powerful reflection about regret and courage.

Re: a hands free life.

Patti Digh — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:57:31 -0000

I'm tired of me, too. And yes, ironies abound. I don't really know how the comments on here work anymore, so thanks for letting me know.

Re: a hands free life.

Patti Digh — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:18:24 -0000

I think that sounds glorious - and for me, I'm seeking a better balance as well. Not letting go completely because my life is infinitely richer because of social media, but prioritizing in a different way.

Re: a hands free life.

Patti Digh — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:17:24 -0000

I think it's a matter of how we engage - and each of us knows our own level of being "hooked," don't we?

Re: a hands free life.

Patti Digh — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:16:42 -0000

Yes, that line is key for me too. I want to focus here on 37days with my writing for a while.

Re: a hands free life.

Patti Digh — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:15:49 -0000

I found myself on Facebook all the time simply because the notifications came to my phone - and that felt unhealthy to me when I realized I was hooked in that way. I've set my laptop access to Facebook for short periods of time each day, and it feels much healthier for me. Good luck!

Re: a hands free life.

Patti Digh — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:14:17 -0000

Yes, it is very much managing the time for me. Social media is fantastic - and very much enhances my life. What I've found is a need to unhook from it and be engaged with it in a healthier way, as you did.

Re: Tuesday reads.

Patti Digh — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:36:43 -0000

Wow - it sounds fascinating - I might need to add that to the reading list for my Bridging Differences book group - thanks! And LOL re: Jack Daniel's!

Re: Tuesday reads.

Patti Digh — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:35:59 -0000

Oh how I love Peter Sis!

Re: convenient truths.

Patti Digh — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:40:28 -0000

I wonder if you watched part 2. I did. It was greatly unsatisfying.

Re: convenient truths.

Patti Digh — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:39:59 -0000

It is easier to see these kinds of issues in others, I do know. And I do believe all our stories serve some purpose - my hope is that my final question about our own inconvenient truths can point at least my own attention to my own stories, which--ultimately--are the only ones I can fully know.

Re: convenient truths.

Patti Digh — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:38:47 -0000

I can identify with that journey. I'm glad you are free of it - and I'm also glad to be free of it.

Re: convenient truths.

Patti Digh — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:37:59 -0000

I appreciate your sharing that - I used to work with someone who sounds like your long-ago husband. It is easy to start believing that perhaps *we're* the crazy one, with such denials. But I believe time does finally tell. Thanks for sharing this. I, too, try to choose being happy over being right. And I also believe Karma will win out, perhaps not in our lifetimes, but sometime.

Re: convenient truths.

Patti Digh — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:35:35 -0000

Thanks for sharing that, Kathryn. Such great food for thought for me.

Re: convenient truths.

Patti Digh — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:29:16 -0000

Big question. "Hostage" is a great word to use for it, too. Do you have an answer?

Re: convenient truths.

Patti Digh — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:28:46 -0000

I think you've hit on something big, JoAnn. The mythologies we create in our celebrity-obsessed culture play some part in this.

Re: convenient truths.

Patti Digh — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:27:31 -0000

Oh, yes, and what a horrible, horrible case.