Patti Digh

The last time we hosted Patti Digh (Life is a Verb), we had a crowd that filled the auditorium to overflowing! So plan to get here early for her encore visit with an exciting, provocative new book, Creative is a Verb: If You’re Alive, You’re Creative. It’s a book that challenging, ... (more)warm, funny, smart and packed with sizzle. In this book she leads readers by both heart and mind to acknowledge, reinforce and utilize their own creative spirit. There also are practical exercises to help bring out and savor your artistic impulse. Patti’s first book resulted from a wrenching event in 2003 when her stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer and died just 37 days later. She said she woke up on day 38 and asked a question repeated every morning since: ”What would I be doing today if I only had 37 days to live?” That was the focus of first her blog and then of what became her bestselling book, Life is a Verb.

Following up on her successful Life Is a Verb, and in the tradition of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, Patti Digh here presents a book that leads readers by both heart and head to acknowledge, reinforce, and use their own creative spirit. Creative Is a Verb is equally a book for people who say, ... (more)“I’m not creative” or “I’m just a dabbler” or “I’m an artist.”

7:30-9:00pm. LIFE IS A VERB is the first blog-to-print literary work illustrated exclusively by the
author’s blog readers from around the world. What would you be doing today if you only had 37 days to live? By asking this simple but
powerful question every morning, Patti Digh—-an ... (more)internationally recognized diversity expert and
mother of two—-transformed her life, later creating the blog that became a book. Join Patti at Charis as she reads from her book and talks about the journey that led her to write it. In the meantime, learn more about the Asheville-based author and Circle Project co-founder at www.pattidigh.com.

Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionallyis part meditation, part how-to guide, part memoir, "Life is a Verb" identifies six core practices to jump-start a meaningful life. Within this framework Digh supplies 37 life stories, each followed by a 10-minute "do it now" exercise ... (more)as well as a practice to try for 37 days--and beyond.

Join Asheville writer Patti Digh for a special program on Saturday, November 21st at 7:00 p.m. based on her new book, Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally. The death of her stepfather just 37
days after being diagnosed with cancer changed Patti Digh’s life. Based ... (more)on her award-winning blog, 37days, her book is a beautiful and constructive collection of words and artwork that is meant as an inspiration for creating the kind of life we want for ourselves. It’s not your usual self-help book, and Digh quotes freely from a wide variety of writers, from Harold Kushner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Rumi to Gertrude Stein, Flannery O’Connor, Saul Bellow, and Ray Bradbury. Her humor, creativity, and practical suggestions will have you hooked.

Blogger (37days.com) Patti Digh will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally. When her stepfather died just 37 days after a cancer diagnosis, Digh started to examine her own life. This book is "brilliantly-crafted, raw, gorgeously-designed, ... (more)and daringly different from 'self-help' books. It relates, through stories that sparkle and astonish and soar, how to move, to be on your way, to realize who you really are through your actions," writes Dave Pollard, author of the weblog, How to Save the World.

Patti Digh (pronounced “dye”) has written two business books on global leadership and diversity, and her comments have appeared on PBS, and in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, the New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, and London Financial Times, among other national and international publications. ... (more)Patti speaks around the world on diversity, global business, and living intentionally.

She has dedicated her life to educating herself and others on the personal and societal costs of exclusion and discrimination.

Meet our Bridging Differences Bookclub host Patti Digh!