Patti Digh - Creative Is a Verb: If Youre Alive, Youre Creative

I am an optimist. I am proud to be naive. I love having great hope in a world that sometimes seems hopeless. I like to laugh. I write a thank-you note every morning. I am also quite fond of peonies and the smell of lavender. Patti Digh

Michael Mauney

If the Buddha had two kids, a dog named Blue, and a huge crush on Johnny Depp, his name would be Patti Digh, wrote one reviewer.

Whatever else she has done and seen and created in her lifecircumnavigating the globe on a ship in charge of 600 teenagers, working in a batik factory in Sri Lanka as a teenager herself, eating lunch with novelist Carlos Fuentes, interviewing Stevie Wonder in her pajamas, traveling to more than sixty countriesPatti Digh is most importantly a mom.

Patti is the award-winning author of several business books that were creative in the way business books seldom are, and also of the grassroots best seller Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally, which was a 2008 finalist for the prestigious Books for a Better Life award and a nominee for the Southern Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year. Her blog, 37days.com, brings together readers from ages twelve through ninety-five across the globe. Patti speaks to audiences all over the world and lives in the beautiful mountain town of Asheville, North Carolina, with her brilliant husband, John Ptak, and their two interesting and curious daughters, Emma and Tess. Patti has a fondness for social justice, Ginger Chews, exclamation points, the word wee, childrens artwork, kilts, porch sitting, Mr. Johnny Depp, and Airstream trailers.

Be in touch, OK?

Twitter: @pattidigh / Facebook: www.tinyurl.com/pattidighpage

Blog: www.37days.com / Web: www.pattidigh.com

E-mail: patti@pattidigh.com

Snail: Patti Digh, 37days, P.O. Box 18323, Asheville, NC 28814, USA

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