Monday, July 7, 2008
eat pray love
Anyone who knows me knows that technology usually gets the best of me, so this post is just to try out this whole blogging endeavor, and I'm using it to gush about Elizabeth Gilbert's book eat pray love. I adore it. Elizabeth Gilbert is a writer who, after going through a nasty divorce, decided to take a year and try to find balance in her life. To do this, she traveled to Italy, India, and Indonesia to explore the concepts of pleasure, prayer, and finally, finding a balance between the two. I think the concept of finding a balance between the physical world of pleasure we inhabit through our senses and the spiritual world we inhabit through our expression of devotion or faith is interesting, and the writing is at times unexpectedly beautiful and laugh-out-loud funny.
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Hi, Vicky! Great job on the technology. I had to reply because I also loved Eat, Pray, Love. I read somewhere recently that someone's wedding ceremoney contained a line from the book; I wish I could better remember details.
I LOVED the Italian first section and was ready to quit my job and spend a year finding myself after I read it.
Interestingly, my minister at church used this book as the basis of a sermon! He found her a bit self absorbed, as I also did, but he also honed in on the uplifting notion of someone who does see the importance of rediscovering herself and her own happiness.
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