Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Elizabeth Gilbert on "Ted Talks" - A must see video
Elizabeth Gilbert's talk on Creative Genius
Elizabeth Gilbert faced down a premidlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of – running off for a year. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home.
She’s a longtime magazine writer – covering music and politics for Spin and GQ – as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man. Her work has been the basis for one movie so far (Coyote Ugly, based on her own memoir, in this magazine article, of working at the famously raunchy bar), and now it looks as if Eat, Pray, Love is on the same track, with the part of Gilbert reportedly to be played by Julia Roberts. Not bad for a year off.
Gilbert also owns and runs the import shop Two Buttons in Frenchtown, New Jersey.
"Gilbert is irreverent, hilarious, zestful, courageous, intelligent, and in masterful command of her sparkling prose."
Booklist
First I met a masseuse named Martia who utterly inspired me in body and mind. She has convinced me to drink water. I don't drink water. Six glasses a day.
Then she convinced me to read "A New Earth" (Eckhart Tolle). None of this information is new to me, but it is all utterly 'forgotten' so I am reacquainted with
who I really am.
Then the book recommended to me by a good friend arrived. "The Field" which is another scientific facet of this woo woo world I live in.
And now, some lovely girl on Facebook invited me to be her friend, and she had this
video posted to her page. Kismet.
I LOVE this concept. It fits all the constructions in my tiny mind about creativity.
It fits what the poet, Mary Oliver, said about "that wild, silky part of ourselves" which won't show up unless the poet shows up at her desk to write.
Last week was my week to indulge myself in buying stuff. Stuff I love, I might add.
This week is my week to be reinspired with the wonder of this world.
Thank you Amy, Martia, Louise...all those dear friends who I love so much.
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did you read Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love? oh you should! except it might inspire you to do just what she did!
Bev! So you're in Asheville now? I'm so out of touch.... Asheville's in my top five favorite places in the world (including Paris, where my wife and I spent a week last year about this time...April, actually).
I still have my copy of LitPot on the bookshelf over my desk. You had an amazing run there.
Keep in touch.
Jim Simpson
Atlanta, GA
I still have my copy of LitPot on the bookshelf over my desk. You had an amazing run there.
Keep in touch.
Jim Simpson
Atlanta, GA
Oh wow, I finally saw that video. I couldn't view the link, but found it here as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA
Inspiring and in a way healing -- for me at least, because I'd gotten really discouraged a while back and just about gave up writing. But I have been playing around with artwork and have enjoyed rediscovering the "happy accident" -- which is I think a lot like what she's saying. I also know that my writing daimon is still with me, hovering in the background somewhere, perhaps waiting for me to show up. :)
I've had the feeling sometimes that a piece of work -- art, music, writing -- had almost come through for one artist and at almost the same time came all the way through for another. Maybe one of them was more prepared to capture it, who knows? I'm also reading Carl Jung now, about the collective unconscious, and that seems in a way very similar.
Anyway, thanks for sharing the info about the video. I'm very pleased to have found it.
Also thanks so much, Bev, for your recent help with my comments. I hope we haven't pestered you too much.
Love,
Barbara
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Inspiring and in a way healing -- for me at least, because I'd gotten really discouraged a while back and just about gave up writing. But I have been playing around with artwork and have enjoyed rediscovering the "happy accident" -- which is I think a lot like what she's saying. I also know that my writing daimon is still with me, hovering in the background somewhere, perhaps waiting for me to show up. :)
I've had the feeling sometimes that a piece of work -- art, music, writing -- had almost come through for one artist and at almost the same time came all the way through for another. Maybe one of them was more prepared to capture it, who knows? I'm also reading Carl Jung now, about the collective unconscious, and that seems in a way very similar.
Anyway, thanks for sharing the info about the video. I'm very pleased to have found it.
Also thanks so much, Bev, for your recent help with my comments. I hope we haven't pestered you too much.
Love,
Barbara
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