“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:

* embrace what is

* honor what was

* 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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