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The SOAT ladies of Connecticut…so lovely!
The SOAT ladies of Connecticut…so lovely!
Photos of Elizabeth Gilbert
What a fantastic time my girls and I had last night! And thank you for your generosity as, like Mary Poppins with her cavernous magical bag, I pulled out the equivalent of Dicken's entire oeuvre (as you put it) for you to sign. It was so fun to meet you and laugh and learn…bless your big heart!
SOAT in Switzerland!
SOAT in Switzerland!
Photos of Elizabeth Gilbert
Dear Elizabeth, Thank you! Today I had one of those weekends you always dream to have! And your wonderful book was one of the components to create an overall impression along with splendid swiss nature and my beloved husband who made this photo! — with Алексей Пупыгин at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Z%C3%BCrichsee/107007676033053?ref=stream&viewer_id=0" data-ft="{"tn":"P"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=107007676033053&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22viewer_id%22%3A0%7D">Zürichsee</a>.
SOAT and Sadie… 🙂
SOAT and Sadie… 🙂
Photos of Elizabeth Gilbert
Greetings from West Virginia!
I just HAD to share this! LOL. I caught Sadie, my four pound Maltese, trying to read SOAT! Haha. I am thoroughly enjoying the novel, by the way! <3 Love.
QUESTION OF THE DAY: “WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE UP, IN ORDER TO HAVE WHAT YOU…
QUESTION OF THE DAY: "WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE UP, IN ORDER TO HAVE WHAT YOU REALLY WANT?"
I have asked this question before on this page, and god knows I will probably ask it again, because I think it's the DEEPEST TRUTHFUL QUERY. The question is on my mind because I raised it again last night, when I was giving a talk in Fairfield, speaking to two (terrific!) women in the audience who wanted advice for how to get their own books written.
Their obstacles were many, and sincere — busy jobs, busy lives, busy minds.
There are always obstacles. Sometimes it seems there are nothing BUT obstacles.
But in the end, the question will always remain the same: "What are you willing to give up, in order to have what you really want?"
A great teacher I knew once asked me that, and it felt like the world stopped for a minute, and all the birds ceased their singing, and every car on the highway paused and the universe just looked at me and said, "Well, lady? Your answer?"
I don't know what your answer would be, to that trenchant question, but I know what mine was. And thus I started shedding, shedding, shedding…
So tell me, dear ones — what do you need to shed? Or what have you already let go of, to take you where you always
needed to be? Share your inspiring stories here, please! Reminders of how it can be done are always GREAT.
(And for those of you who have not yet gotten enough of YELLOW DRESS this year, I offer yet another photo of it in action! This image is from The London Sunday Times, shot in my garden earlier this autumn. Dear, dear YELLOW DRESS. Who would I be without you? One thing I will never give up to have what I really want is YELLOW DRESS.)
How about you?
What are you finally ready to be?
ONWARD,
LG
SOAT in the Amazonian rainforest!
SOAT in the Amazonian rainforest!
Photos of Elizabeth Gilbert
Do you know Belém? City in the middle of Amazon rainforest – Brazil.
That is the bookstore where I work.We just received the book and I'm very excited about reading it.
Thanks Liz♥