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I love this story a friend sent me about a very notorious 19th century woman named Lola Montez — who was born with the name "ELIZA GILBERT"!

Oh, if only we are related, how happy that would make me….

And if only Alma could have had nearly as much fun as this wild chick had!

Notorious Lola Montez kept the men in S.F. panting
www.sfgate.com
[…] her erotic exploits, political intrigues, violent temper and extraordinary beauty had made headlines throughout the world. Who became the lover of the famous virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt? Who moved on to Paris, taking the City of Light by storm and taking a swashbuckling French journalist into…

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall

Dear Ones —

I have a lot of trouble sometimes forgiving myself for my mistakes and failures. I lie awake at night and review my errors, and wonder how I could have been so blind. I wish for thousands of second chances, third chances, hundredth chances, to go back and correct myself — to finally get it right. I want to un-say what I said, or speak out what I never dared to express. There are people I want to go back in time and eliminate from my destiny, and others who I want to retrieve because I lost them so foolishly. I long to take what is fixed and finished and done, and do it over — better, always better. I think, "You should have known, Liz, how could you not have known?"

I'm sure I'm the only person who does this to myself, right?

🙂

Then I remember this line from Rumi, about embracing everything (EVERY SINGLE THING) that has brought you to this place, to this divine moment:

“If God said, ‘Rumi, pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,’ there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, not any act, I would not bow to.”

I remember that, and I bow down in gratitude to it all.

ALL of it.

Sending you love this fine morning,
LG

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall

Dear Ones —

A friend of this page named Holly Goodman recently published this essay, about poverty and hope. It is BEAUTIFUL. It is true. I pass it along with love. And Holly, we all send you our love and admiration. You are amazing.

An Abundance of Towels by Holly Goodman – Nailed Magazine
https://ift.tt/1jVr52N
An essay from writer Holly Goodman, describing what to do when you're all alone and you realize you're poor, but things could always be worse. For NAILED.

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall

The lovely British edition of SOAT, in Spain, read by a French citizen. Oh, what a worldly world it is! 🙂

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The signature of all things in Spain (Palamos) read in english by a French girl! I reached the page where we find out where the title comes from :))

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If not you, who?

All love,
LG

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