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MOVIE MONDAY!

Hello loves…

It's been many weeks since I showed the official book trailer for "The Signature of All Things". I think last time I aired it, none of you had yet read the book.

So I thought some of you might like to watch it again…or for the first time, as the case may be.

You'll see beautiful footage in here of "White Acre", and also of the rare 18th century book that inspired the entire novel…

Enjoy!

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/video/

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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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TEXAS!!!

I am here! And I promise not to mess with you, on account of always having been told to not mess with Texas. If I'm gonna mess with anyone, it's Oklahoma, right? Just checking! (JUST KIDDING, OKLAHOMA! I'm just kidding. Just trying to get a rise out of the Texans, ok? We're cool, Oklahoma!)

But seriously, Texas, I am here!

I'm in Dallas right now, and will be reading tomorrow (Monday) night at the Highland Park Methodist Church on the very literarily named MOCKINGBIRD Lane! 7pm

Come hang out!

Here are the details:

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/events/

And here is a terrific Texas review of "The Signature of All Things" that recently ran in the Houston Chronicle…thank you, Houston Chronicle! I also think that YOU are "dazzling"!

Here's the review:

http://www.chron.com/life/books/article/Heroine-springs-from-fertile-soil-of-Gilbert-s-4908086.php#photo-5339374

See you tomorrow, beloved Texans!
LG

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And just to mix it up…ELP in Kenya during an eclipse. Beautiful!

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Hello liz,
Here is my favourite, epl and the eclipse here in Mtwapa Kenya

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SOAT in Luxembourg!

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Just started reading SOAT in Luxembourg (the country).

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SOAT in South Africa!

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Enjoying SOAT in Johannesburg, South Africa. Wondering why the cover is so different over here?

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SOAT in the Philippines with a HAPPINESS JAR we've seen on this page before! Thanks, Claire!

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Another add on for the happiness jar today! And I am excited to meet the Whittakers.

Greetings from the Philippines, Claire.

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SOAT as a Halloween gift…this one's a first! And now I must know who got the Walking Dead t-shirt, because: JEALOUS.

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Here's a new spin for you! My fiancé and I exchange Halloween gifts since it's his favorite holiday….adding the gifts makes it almost as good as Christmas he says
He surprised me with your book as one of my gifts only proving he is THE perfect man. Can't wait to dive in!

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SOAT at Mohonk (a place I dearly love!)

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Great read!! Thank you! <3 Lovely autumn day at Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz NY

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SOAT in Egypt!

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From Egypt with Love

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BALANCE, reconsidered…

Good morning, loves!

So the other night someone at my reading asked me how I maintain balance in my life. My first response was, "I'm delighted that you think I DO!" But my next response was to offer up this thought…that perhaps it is time for us to reconsider the aspiration of balance in our lives.

I say this because I feel and fear that the lovely word "balance" has accidentally become yet another weapon in the arsenal that we use against ourselves — yet another piece of evidence that WE ARE NOT DOING IT RIGHT. How many of us can truly say that we are living perfectly balanced lives? That we have it ALL sorted out, and that we have reached (and maintain) an immaculate equilibrium between work, family, love, health, self-care, care of others, creativity, rest, passion and devotion?

Anyone?

Hello….?

(Pause here to allow a tumbleweed to blow across the empty, silent plains….)

I sure haven't gotten there. And yet that's what the magazines all tell us we are supposed to have, supposed to BE. But do you know anyone who has truly achieved it? I don't. I'm not sure I would want to be friends with anyone who has achieved that, because she would probably be kind of rigid and intimidating — and anyway, how would she compassionately understand the struggle of real and messy humanity?

Because here's the thing about balance — it is, and maybe should be, a momentary and fleeting condition. We may reach it at certain instances, and it is glorious in those instances. But then the ground shifts under our feet again. Because we live on a planet that spins at a thousand miles an hour. And the people who surround us (family, friends, lovers, coworkers, neighbors, antagonists) are spinning even faster than that. And our own poor crazy human minds are spinning even faster than THAT.

So it is no wonder that sometimes, just when we feel we've reached a point of perfect balance, we topple over in the next moment. (Or someone shoves us. Or we collide with a moving object.) We are all moving objects, you guys, in a constantly changing landscape.

There is no shame in being mostly out of balance. That's kind of what it is to be alive.

So don't harm yourself, ok, if you feel that you have not reached that perfected state of constant equilibrium to which we are all supposed to aspire? It comes and goes, people. And then it comes and goes again. We stand up, we fall down, we do it again.

The more important thing, I think, is to cultivate flexibility amidst the wild circumstances of life…and the MOST important thing, I guess, is to cultivate the kindness and forgiveness we need to show ourselves and others grace when we all inevitably tumble over flat on our faces. Or asses. Or faces and then asses. As I have done many times, and still do.

Bruised face, sore butt, brave heart.

Just be forgiving.

Be good to you,
LG

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