BOOK CLUBS & COCKTAILS!
Greetings Readers of Earth!
I love this photo that my friend Anne sent to me from a book club gathering last night in Portland, Oregon. The women had not only chosen to read THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS together, but had brewed up this great green mossy SOAT cocktail that my friend Amy Stewart (author of "The Drunken Botanist") invented in honor of Alma Whittaker.
Because every novel needs its own distinctive cocktail, don't you agree?
If you guys are reading THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS for your book clubs, I thank you! That's so wonderful! But if you are hosting book club meetings about this novel without simultaneously drinking this great green mossy cocktail, then you are simply crazy.
Here's a link for how to make the cocktail, if you want to emulate those awesome literary boozers out there in Portland:
https://ift.tt/KBw9e1
And remember: DON'T EAT THE FERNS! (My favorite warning ever.)
Happy reading!
LG
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Lovely…Sandy brought THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS and Alma with her to donate blood, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
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SOAT at City of Hope hospital. My humble two cents to be of service to others on MLK day. Dear Alma kept me company while donating blood.
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WHAT ARE YOUR TWO WORDS?
A friend of this page named Patti sent me this…such a cool question.
I myself had three possible answers.
1) "Calm down." (This was my first thought. But I eventually rejected this one, on account of the fact that is STILL the advice I need to follow, so it doesn't have much to do with being young, specifically…)
2) "No boys." (Oh, god — what I could have done with my youth had I not gotten so entangled in so many doomed romances! The hours, the months, the YEARS that I gave away to boys! The drama! The infatuations! The tears! All those evenings spent watching "Predator" again and again! I just read a study saying that 30% of all students at Ivy League universities are virgins, and I thought: "Well, of course!" If I had stayed away from boys, and instead used all that time productively, I also could have mastered Mandarin and physics and violin by the age of 21.)
3) "Never mind." (This is what I finally settled on. Because everything I did when I was young — every mistake, every drama, every failure, every euphoric encounter, every dream, every yearning — has made me who I am today. And while I am far from perfect, I cannot help but believe that I needed become exactly this person, which is to say that I needed all those experiences, precisely the way they were. So if my younger self asked my advice, I would just say, "Never mind." Do exactly what you're doing. It all takes you where you need to be. A thought which becomes kind of reassuring, in terms of the mistakes I am probably making today…if you get my drift…)
What about you guys?
Two words to some lost version of yourself?
Go for it!
LG
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SOAT and the bluest of blue skies! So lovely…thank you, Diane!
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Loving "The Signature of All Things"; your writing is intelligent, engaging and masterful! Thank You for being an author so we can all share in your wonderful stories and elegant writing. Reading on the balcony on vacation in West Palm Beach, FL.
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Cats can be wonderful meditation masters. (Anybody who sleeps 22 hours a day must be doing something right, in terms of quieting the mind!) I love this photo from Jessica, about her own meditation practice.
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Since we've been on the topic of meditation, I thought you might enjoy my praying cat Anthony
I'm getting ready to do a meditation with my kids that my fourteen year old son calls the "smile in your liver" meditation. We'll be sending you love.
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