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Patti Digh<\/h4>\n

Life Is a Verb: Six Practices for More Mindful Living<\/em><\/h4>\n

Dec 2, 2010<\/p>\n

\u201cLife is complex, not complicated,\u201d says Patti Digh . \u201cBut we insist on confusing what is complex with what is merely complicated.\u201d There is a difference: A moon launch is complicated. Fixing your car is complicated. But raising a child or finding more meaning in your life is complex. Come learn what those differences are, and how solving a complicated problem is vastly different from walking into complexity.<\/p>\n

Patti discovered the difference in 2003 when her stepfather died from lung cancer just 37 days after his diagnosis. In response to the question \u201cWhat would I be doing today if I only had 37 days to live?\u201d she started writing her award- winning blog, 37days.com . Thirty-seven of her blog essays form the foundation of her 2008 book, Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally .<\/p>\n

In her talk, she will share the \u201cSix Practices for Intentional Living\u201d outlined in Life is a Verb , and engage us in stepping into complexity in order to live more mindfully. Using her \u201cstory-based insights with a lot of laughter thrown in,\u201d and interactive exercises to embed the knowing in us, she’ll explore what it means to:<\/p>\n

Say Yes . How can you live a \u201cyes, and\u201d rather than a \u201cyes, but\u201d kind of life?<\/p>\n

Love More. How could adoration (of yourself and others) revolutionize your life?<\/p>\n

Be Generous. How can you give (and receive) something more valuable than money or things?<\/p>\n

Trust Yourself. How can you choose whom you spend your time with?<\/p>\n

Speak Up. How can you stand tall, yet give up your attachment to being right?<\/p>\n

Slow Down. How can you pay attention and stand still in a world moving at warp speed?<\/p>\n

Her smart, funny, and moving presentation will touch your heart deeply. You may come away both laughing and crying, and with a clearer sense of what\u2019s important in your own life.<\/p>\n

Patti Digh (pronounced \u201cdye\u201d) is a North Carolina-born master storyteller whose stories are full of humor, poignancy, surprise, pain, and knowing. Life Is a Verb was one of five finalists for the prestigious Books for a Better Life award and a nominee for a Book of the Year award from the Southern Independent Booksellers Association. Her award-winning blog on which it was based, 37days.com , brings together readers aged 12 to 95 and from across the globe; readers of the blog created an unprecedented 43-city book tour for her when the book debuted. This fall she has two new books out: Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives and Creative Is a Verb: If You\u2019re Alive, You\u2019re Creative . Patti lives in Asheville with her husband, two daughters, and a dog named Blue.<\/p>\n

Friday night with Patti: Patti Digh will be reading from her newest book, Creative Is a Verb , on Friday, December 3rd at 6 p.m. at Ornamentea in Raleigh. This is not an SFF event ; see www.Ornamentea.com for details<\/p>\n

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