I think eat pray love is a very appropriate title for Elizabeth Gilbert’s book. She touches upon the many different feelings she experienced during the dissolution of her marriage, a new relationship with great possibilities but not meant to be, deep depression, and a new beginning. All right! Her words don’t weigh heavily on the reader; you sense she has no intention of wallowing in them, and she’s funny, very funny. She has a way with words, and. as you read, you get a feeling that eventually she’ll get to a better than ever place. She shares so many personal experiences and private thoughts, and in telling and sharing, we learn also.
After her divorce, the author decides to travel to three countries-Italy India Indonesia. In those three countries Life speaks to her as it’s never done before. In Italy she seeks out those small restaurants serving the best this and superb that, and those amazing meals become the highlight of the day. We can almost taste the food as she describes them. And when reading the paragraphs explaining her love of the Italian language, there was this urge that began in me to sign up immediately for lessons too. Better yet, hop on a plane and follow her footsteps to enjoy the food, speak the language, meet the people, see the sites, find inspiration in the beauty all around, while loving and enjoying life almost every step of the way and realizing the present moment is where it’s at.
I’ve not finished reading the book; I want to linger. She’s now in India. And it promises to be just as wonderful – in a very, very different way. I’ve only skimmed the surface in telling you about eat pray love. Giving too much information is like telling the ending of a movie before you’ve seen it. I wouldn’t do that to you. www.elizabethgilbert.com
“If you don’t like where you are,
change what you are. -Henry Knight Miller
“Faith dares the soul to go further than it can see.” -William Clarke
“I slowed down my pace and let the Angel of Good Fortune catch up with me.” -DO LESS, ACHIEVE MORE – Chen-Ning Chu