Doing what we love—and actually feeling it I found myself sitting with a question today—one borrowed from the book Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. She wrote that while in Italy—learning the language, enjoying the food, and more importantly, re-relearning how to enjoy her life—she asked herself: “Is it such a bad thing to live …
Tag: Elizabeth Gilbert
Stories We Wrestle With
When A Story Creates Headlocks and Dropkicks Stories have a way of drawing me in close like a headlock… and every now and then, pushing you right back out, like a dropkick. Elizabeth Gilbert does that to me. One minute she’s got me in a headlock… completely pulled into the moment, and the next, she’ll …
When Inspiration Knocks
“I don’t know what I think until I write about it.” — Joan Didion This quote from Joan Didion has always struck me not just as wise, but as fundamentally true. For me, writing isn’t about capturing a finished thought—it’s the very process by which the thought is formed. Until the words start appearing on …
The Bow Legged Blogger 