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What we think we recognize
Recognition happens in the body before it happens in language
Jan 16 • Patti Digh
Strong Offers and 5 Links to Ponder - January 15, 2026
Things I have found for you.
Jan 15 • Patti Digh
Poetry Wednesday: A murdered poet
it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now
Jan 14 • Patti Digh
Leaving small lanterns behind
flattening the hierarchy of what counts
Jan 12 • Patti Digh
Tend to the garden you can touch
A refusal to confuse scale with significance.
Jan 8 • Patti Digh
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You can’t drag someone to shore who doesn’t believe they’re in water.
Apr 25, 2025 • Patti Digh
The waiting has ended, unexpectedly
Aug 29, 2025 • Patti Digh
White without thinking
Aug 19, 2025 • Patti Digh
Healing is violent
Oct 21, 2025 • Patti Digh

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Strong Offers and 5 Links to Ponder - January 8, 2026
Things I have found for you.
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The baby sings in her high chair at the banquet
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Intention, without structure, fades
Start your new year as the writer you want to be
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What are you still carrying?
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Strong Offers and 5 Links to Ponder - January 1, 2026
The turning of the new year is a hinge, not a clean break
Jan 1 • Patti Digh
Poetry Wednesday: I lean back, lip-read the heavens talking on in light, syllabic stars.
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The world narrowed to a blade
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An invitation
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