You know what I'm gonna do today…?
May I humbly suggest you do the same? Because really…why not, right?
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE LOVELY MESSAGES YESTERDAY!
You are all spectacular rock stars with giant hearts.
Now go have an amazing day,
Love Liz
Jody is reading "Stern Men" (in the original first edition hardcover, I see!) on location in Maine! Well done, Jody!
Photos of Elizabeth Gilbert
Sending you birthday greetings from "Fort Niles"!
I read Stern Men shortly after moving to Maine, and have been intending to visit Vinalhaven ever since. How fabulous that today was that day! Wishing you all the best.
A HAPPINESS JAR from South Africa!
Imagination Workshop 2: 29 June 2013 – "Feeling Good"
Happy jars! Each of the child have now made their very own happy jar and taken them home. They will be writing down (or drawing pictures of) any happy memories and when they feel sad, angry or upset, they will open their jar and go through all the pieces of paper 🙂
The venue for our second official Imagination Workshop was very kindly provided by the Marsh Memorial Children's Homes in Rondebosch, Cape Town. One of our goals for this workshop was to explore positive and negative emotions and try to convey to the children that it is ok to feel any emotion, but we do have the ability to choose which feelings we want to focus on and that it is possible to try and convert negative into positive emotions.
Such a beautiful HAPPINESS JAR, and a tribute to Rosa's mother!
Photos of Elizabeth Gilbert
Dear Liz, here is a happiness jar from Spain.
I made it to remember all of the good times with my mother. She has alzheimer and sometimes I think that there hasn't been anything good in my everyday life. Then, after rethinking it I'm able to come up with a small but nice memory. I write it down and put it inside this jar. Then, I'll be able to remember those good times.
Thank you for this wonderful idea.
THANK YOU FOR THE BIRTHDAY WISHES!!!
Good morning, dear ones! Thank you so much for the sweet messages so many of you have been sending me — you are very, very lovely.
It's a beautiful day. I am 44 years old today, and grateful to be here. A nice symmetrical number. Because I like things to have significance, I just Googled "Number 44, significance" and the first thing that came up was this VERY helpful Wikipedia entry which alerted me to this little known numerical fact:
"44 is a natural number following 43 and preceding 45."
I honestly don't know what people did before the Internet, to discover meaning in their lives…
Anyway, I'm gonna have fun today, and that fun will involve eating. Eating and eating and eating and eating!
Speaking of eating, here's a particularly chubby baby picture of me, looking staggered and astonished to have arrived on this planet. Still haven't gotten over that sensation. It's a pretty amazing place, Earth.
Love to you all and thank you for your sweetness!
Liz
