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“Live like it could go away,”
As Patti Digh’s been known to say.
But here is the quandary:
Why do the laundry?
We’ll stink on the 38th day.

In Life is a Verb, Patti Digh wrote about living life as though you had 37 days to live. If I only had 37 days to live, I would spend my life savings and not bother doing the laundry. How can we have both? And we end up talking a lot about grief and disability.

Highlights:

• the 38th day
• “I’m playing this game of life to learn, not to win.” -Patti Digh
• The 3 steps in dealing with loss:
  1. embrace what is
  2. honor what was
  3. love what will be
• embrace vs. collapse
• “I fell down. And I still want the damn sandwich.”
• disability is like coming out
• we conflate noticing a difference with making a judgment.

Links:

• Life is a Verb
• The Geography of Loss
• Alan Seale, the 4 levels of story: drama, situation, choice, opportunity

You can find what Patti Digh is up to these days at LifeIsAVerbCamp.com.

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