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GOOD MORNING!

A Facebook friend shared this with me yesterday…I love it, and it is so true. I wish I knew who had written it, but I wanted to share it all with you.

ONWARD!
LG

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Have a beautiful night, Dear Ones!

LG

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A LESSON IN PURE JOY.

Want to see a spiritual master at work?

Watch this video from 1989, of the great Argentinian footballer Maradona warming up before a game in Germany.

I can't stop watching this. I never want to stop watching this. It made me want to go to the gym today — and I actually WENT!

It made me want to make things.

It made me want to go write a new book, and cook some food, and dance around my living room.

It made me happy to be alive.

If you're wondering what your calling is — your vocation — here's a clue: It's whatever makes you as happy as screwing around with a soccer ball during warm-ups clearly made Maradona.

Please take note of the little hip-shimmy that he does in the middle of this warm-up, for absolutely no reason except that he seems to be really happy to be there.

His whole body is like: "I can't believe I get to do this!"

Which is how it should be, when you're doing what you love.

Also please take note of the other players around him, doing their warmups with no apparent joy.

Those guys were all excellent soccer players. But none of them were calling down their divinity that day. They were just doing their JOB. They weren't living their VOCATION.

Go do the thing that makes you want to dance like this, OK?

Whatever it is.

Cuz that's the juice, right there.

ONWARD!
LG

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Maradona – Live is life

Maradona Napoli warming up

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Thought you lovelies might want to see the red rose Miami dress in action…

It never gets any less scary for me to get on that stage in front of so many people and speak for 45 minutes. But when you you're wearing rose-covered armor, it really, really helps. (Remember Ketut Liyer talking about "pretty power"? I guess that's what he meant!)

I also remember Dustin Hoffman once saying in an interview that if you can get the costume right, that's 90% of the character solved right off the bat.

So thank you again, our dear departed Mr. de la Renta, for having made the "costumes" that have given me 90% of the confidence I've needed for . As for the other 10% of the confidence? That's just me, faking it till I make it…

ONWARD,
LG

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"You may say to yourself: Well, how did I get here?"

-Talking Heads

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I'm in the car on my way to in Miami — where today we shall all be asking ourselves this very question….

What's your answer, everyone?

A year from now: October 25, 2015.

Let's picture it.

Where are you? Who are you with? What are you up to? And how does it feel?

I'll hopefully be looking back on this day as having been AWESOME….and next year at this time, I also plan to be enjoying happy memories of a trip I finally will have taken to Greece….and I will — if all the forces of destiny allow — definitely be on book tour, for my brand new book about Creativity!

Where will you be?

Aim high, dream big, and start making plans!

Love love love to you all,
LG

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TOMORROW'S DRESS!

Here's what I'll be wearing tomorrow for …this is about as close as I get to "spicy", and some version of spicy does seem to be what Miami deserves.

(The toenails, also, are slightly out of character for me, so I thought I'd include them in the portrait!)

Thank you, Mr. de la Renta, once again, for the beauty…nobody will ever do what you could do.

SEE YOU TOMORROW, MIAMI!!!

LG

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FRIDAY HOUSEKEEPING!

Dear Ones –

We get a lot of new people joining this Facebook page every day (thank you for joining our little community, new folks!) so once a week, I try to give everyone all the information they might want, about other places on the Internet to find me.

So let’s run down the list:

My website is http://ift.tt/1tJzIxR

You can follow me on Instagram (which I just started because some 14-year-olds told me to) at:

http://ift.tt/1tJzIO7.

You can follow me on Pinterest (that addictive crack house, whose vortex I try not to tumble down too often because it’s a gorgeous suckhole) at: — those of you who are going!)

ONWARD,
LG

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THANK YOU, RICHARD FROM TEXAS…and rest in peace.

Dear Ones —

Today is the birthday of my dear friend Richard from Texas, who passed away in 2010.

I loved this man so much, and I miss him constantly.

Many of you came to love Richard, too, from the minute he walked onto the pages of EAT PRAY LOVE. His influence and guidance over my life was certainly incalculable — as was the joy of his company.

Richard was a trickster and an outlaw by nature, which made him such an unusual candidate for a spiritual teacher (although maybe not, since there's an awful lot of trickster energy in the universe.) We always had adventures together that bordered on the illegal and the illicit — or sometimes even crossed that border.

The last time I saw Richard alive, he'd come to visit me in New Jersey, and somehow he convinced me to break into an abandoned house with him. We'd just been driving around the countryside, and he saw this big old empty house, and he wanted to check it out. It was totally illegal, of course, and also a bit of a complicated operation. (There was a ladder involved, "borrowed" from an old barn, and the jimmying of windows and locks.) The whole time, he was totally relaxed. Richard climbed up to slip into an second-story window while I held the ladder for him, quite nervously (I am NOT an outlaw).The whole time, he was grinning like a kid — like a very naughty kid — while I kept saying, "I can't believe you're a spiritual role model to millions!"

I'll never forget Richard grinning at me from a window on the second floor of that abandoned house, saying, "Groceries! You gotta come in here and check it out! It's AMAZING!"

I said, "How am I going to explain this to the police, if they drive by and see me holding this ladder?"

He said, "I'll hide, and you tell them it was an accident. Tell them you didn't know it was private property."

I said, "Richard, I'm holding a LADDER!"

He said, "You're a writer; you can make up a good story for the cops if they show up," and then he vanished into upstairs of the abandoned house — though he kept popping his smiling face out of various windows to tell me what a great time he was having.

This is how I always picture Richard up in heaven — popping his head out of various windows to grin down at me. Daring me to take risks. Laughing at my fear. Way up high in an unknowable world. Having a ball.

I love you, Richard. Thank you for the laughter, the lessons, the felonies!!!

LOVE,
LG

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