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I FORGOT ABOUT MOVIE MONDAY AGAIN!
I'm bad at this.
Hey guys — I promised that I would show the book trailer for "The Signature of All Things" on this Facebook page every Monday morning till the book comes out in October, but I keep forgetting. So, it's TRAILER TUESDAY, instead…
Here's the video my publisher made for the new novel — hope you enjoy it!
And if you want to pre-order the book, by all means do so right here:
https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/books/the-signature-of-all-things/
Big love and happy viewing,
Liz
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"The Signature of All Things" promo trailer Elizabeth talks about THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity TEDTal
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Good morning, all!
A friend of this page named Chrissy sent me this quote this morning from Eat Pray Love…I wanted to share it because, though the words are attributed here to me, they aren't actually mine. This line is a quote by Richard from Texas, who was such a font of wisdom and humor and compassion in my life. Thought you all might need this reminder today from Richard, as did I!
All love,
Liz
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THE GRAND TOUR!
OK, folks — those of you who subscribe to my LizNews newsletter already got this information yesterday, but now I will share it with everyone! I have my official tour dates for my new book "The Signature of All Things"!
If you go to my events page on my website, you can see all the details (as far as I've got them right now):
https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/events/
But here is the general run-down of dates and places:
October 1, New York City
October 3, Philadelphia, PA
October 4, Atlanta, GA
October 7, Washington DC
October 9, Miami, FL
October 11, Boulder, CO
October 12, Denver, CO
October 13, Pasadena, CA
October 14, Los Angeles, CA
October 16, San Francisco, CA
October 18, Fairfield, CT
October 22, London, UK!
October 23, Dublin, IRELAND
October 25, London, UK!
October 30, Chicago, IL
November 1, Nashville, TN
November 2, Knoxville, TN
November 4, Dallas, TX
November 6, Portland, OR
November 8, Seattle, WA
November 10, Portland, ME
(Somewhere in here: MONTREAL & AMSTERDAM but I don't have the details yet)
November 29, Dusseldorf, GERMANY
December 1, Berlin, GERMANY
December 2, Tubingen, GERMANY
December 3, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
December 10, New York Public Library, in conversation with ANN PATCHETT!!!
January 27, 92nd St Y, NYC, in conversation with ISABEL ALLENDE!!!
….and that’s not all, folks! In January and February of 2014, I’ll be going to France, Norway, Italy and Australia (but I don’t have those details yet). And in the spring and summer of 2014, I’ll be going to Wales and then to Brazil (BRAZIL!!!!!!) but it’s too soon yet to know exactly how that will all shape up. I'll keep you updated as the details come in.
Whew!
As you can see by the number of stops, I have tried to get EVERYWHERE, but the world is a big place, and I am only one person, so I am so very sorry if I won't make it to your town or country this time. But make a big enough noise, and I'll try to convince my publisher to bring me to your city on the next round, when the paperback is published in 2014! Or, steal a car and come see me at your nearest possible venue! (Don't really steal a car. Unless it's a super nice car.)
Come see me! It's gonna be fun,
Packing my bags already,
Liz
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UPDATE on a long-ago topic!
Hey everyone! Some of you may remember that a few months ago I put out a desperate plea on this page for somebody to recommend a professional who could help me solve my dreadful insurance bureaucracy dilemmas. So many of you wrote in with great advice, but the person I responded to the most was Mary Muscarella (of Brown & Brown Benefit Advisors, right nearby in Lambertville, NJ) who wrote something very compelling reassuring on this page, like, "Call me first thing tomorrow morning. I can help you."
BOY, HAS SHE!
All of our insurance woes — for me and my husband, plus our employees at Two Buttons — have now been straightened out by the indefatigable Mary, and so I just had to put a plug for her on my page. If anyone in the central NJ area needs help figuring out insurance stuff, call her. She's terrific and lovely. Her Linkedin account is attached below, and here, also, is some general information on Brown & Brown — who been just great:
https://www.advisorsbb.com/about_locations.shtml
And thank you once again to EVERYONE who chimed in to try to help! What a great use of social media, guys!
Bureaucracy hath been vanquished!
🙂
Liz
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COURAGE, ANYONE?
Dear Lions —
Yesterday's conversation on this page (on the subject of "WHAT YOU ALLOW IS WHAT WILL CONTINUE") caused many of you to speak up on the subject of courage, or, sometimes, the lack of it. Namely, there was a lot of talk about wanting to make changes, but being afraid. Which is totally natural. (Both wanting to make changes, and being afraid.) And as I have heard people say many times before, yesterday I heard a lot of people saying, "I'm not a brave person."
I just wanted to say this morning that I don't believe courage is a monolithic virtue. Meaning, I don't believe that there is such a thing as a universally brave person, or a universally cowardly person.
In my family, for instance, I've had a reputation my entire life as being a quivering jelly-ball of fearfulness. I was just at a family reunion this weekend, where they were making fun of me AGAIN about being such a baby — and deservedly, because I remain cowardly about heaps of things. I'm afraid of almost all the powers in the natural world (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water). I'm afraid of speed in any form (fast cars, fast motorcycles, fast roller-coasters, fast bicycles.) I'm afraid of trampolines. I'm afraid of tsunamis. I'm afraid of earthquakes, sea snakes, tornadoes, and, now, Shark-nadoes. I'm afraid of scenarios where people are drinking too much. I'm afraid of emotional confrontations. I'm afraid of zip-lines, surfing, mountain-climbing, bungee-jumping, sky-diving. I'm afraid of jaywalking. I'm afraid of climbing trees. I'm afraid of debt. I'm afraid of taking a spinning class. I'm afraid that my friends marriages will fall apart. I'm afraid of not getting enough sleep. I'm afraid of just about everything I see toddlers and teenagers doing at any given moment. Etc. Etc. Etc.
I can so often be overheard warning people to PLEASE BE CAREFUL that my friend Margaret in Brooklyn has nicknamed me "Grandma Hand-Brake."
By almost every conceivable measure, then, I'm a coward. And I'm the first one to admit it. Except that nobody is a COMPLETE coward, so here are the three places where I find it incredibly easy to be brave: 1) I am fearless about expressing myself creatively, 2) I am not afraid to love, and 3) I'm not scared of meeting people. Upon these three pillars of simple (for me) courage, I have built my entire life of writing and friendship and travel.
What I'm trying to say, folks, is don't get locked in some idea of yourself or other people as having a fixed identity when it comes to courage. All of us are scared sometimes; all of us are brave sometimes. There are Navy SEALS who would vomit immediately at the thought of public speaking, for instance, whereas I'm like, "Give me that microphone!" Basically, everybody gets SOMETHING, entering this life, which causes to them to panic — but we also all get strengths that come to us naturally. Build on that thing — that thing which comes to you naturally. Nobody needs for me to be a competitive ski-jumper, and it would be dumb for me to try. I don't need to prove that I can leap out of airplanes, because the world doesn't need me to leap out of airplanes. Instead, I attempt to bulk up on my stores of courage where they already exist — to make my strong points even stronger. So find out where you are naturally brave, and INCREASE that. As for the rest of it, forget it.
Also, it is not necessary to be brave every single day. In fact, it's not even possible. It is only necessary to be brave — really brave — a few times in your life. I can trace all the great things in my life to about 8 or 9 moments in my 44 years when I really stepped up and pushed myself to take the frightening leap. You'll recognize that moment when it comes, because that will be the chance to completely change your life. When that moment comes — JUMP. The rest of the time, just relax. Save up your courage for when it counts.
What do you guys think? How have you built up your own courage over time? Where do you want to be even braver? What would it take? And how do you feel about sea snakes?
Forza!
Love,
Grandma Hand-Brake
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