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July 15, 2014
The lush British hardcover edition of THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, in Kenya…so…
The lush British hardcover edition of THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, in Kenya…so beautiful!
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greetings liz from athi river (near nairobi), kenya. the sun has set, but before it did, it showered us with beautiful golden rays that then caused the hippos down at the river to grunt and snort as they prepare for their overnight grazing in the moonlight. while they graze, i plan on losing myself in alma's world. i am excited!! thanks for letting us all share in the blessings and beauty of what your mind and imagination are able to so vividly create. YOU are a gift…
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July 14, 2014
A toast this morning to all you dangerous souls!
A toast this morning to all you dangerous souls!
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My copy of THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Romanian has arrived! :) LG
My copy of THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Romanian has arrived!
LG
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July 13, 2014
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Against BALANCE… Dear Ones – The other night at my event in St Paul, a young…
Against BALANCE…
Dear Ones -
The other night at my event in St Paul, a young woman asked me about how I achieve balance in my life.
First of all, I love that she thinks I have achieved balance in my life!
Secondly, I felt the need to speak out once more against the subtle tyranny of the word BALANCE, which I think haunts and punishes modern women more and more every day.
We are constantly being told that we should be achieving balance — that we should somehow exquisitely be negotiating the relationships between our work lives, our home lives, our romantic lives, our health and well-being, our spiritual selves. You can't read an interview with a famous woman these days that the journalist does not applaud her for having achieved BALANCE….and then if you turn the pages of that magazine, you will find ten more articles showing how you can achieve balance. too!
Be careful.
The word BALANCE has tilted dangerously close, I fear, to the word PERFECT — another word that women use as weapons against themselves and each other.
To say that someone has found the secret to a balanced life is to suggest that they have solved life, and that they now float through their days in a constant state of grace and ease, never suffering stress, ambivalence, confusion, exhaustion, anger, fear, or regret. Which is a wonderful description of nobody, ever.
Balance, when we do find it, is a breathtakingly temporary condition. We stand upon a world that spins at 2000 miles an hour. Our minds, meanwhile, spin at 200,000 miles an hour. We collide every day with other humans who are also sliding and spinning wildly. The landscape of our lives, therefore, changes by the minute. You find your balance one day and think, "Hooray! I have solved it" and then five minutes later the world utterly transforms again, and you're knocked on your ass one more time.
That's just how life is on this planet — messy, fast, out of control, unpredictable. It's all terribly interesting, but also terribly unstable.
That being the case, I dropped the myth of BALANCE a long time ago. (I buried it right next to PERFECT.) My life seems happiest — as I tried to explain to this young woman the other night — when I just surrender to the madness, and embrace the glorious mess that I am…and also when I embrace the glorious mess that everyone else is, and the glorious mess of the world itself. My life gets the most painful when I try to set the entire mess (myself other people, life itself) into order.
The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.
If you can get some stuff done in the chaos sometimes, god bless you. If you can basically hold it together, propping yourself up with duct tape and glue, rock on. If you can manage stay upright even one hour a day, you're doing pretty great, as far as I'm concerned. And if you can be kind to the other stumbling fools around you half the time — well, that's just heroic.
Basically, I think we are all just sloppy stupendous champions.
Onward!
Heart,
LG
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Idaho, with a watchful guard…
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in Idaho, with a watchful guard…
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I have everything I need for my evening. And she promises she will not touch this book!! Cheers from Boise, Id.
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July 12, 2014
Thank you, Twin Cities, for such a beautiful evening last night! You guys REALLY…
Thank you, Twin Cities, for such a beautiful evening last night! You guys REALLY showed up with the openheartedness…and I am grateful.
And now, Boston — you're up!
See you tomorrow at 2pm…
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I woke up a little extra tired this morning from book tour, and then reminded my…
I woke up a little extra tired this morning from book tour, and then reminded myself of THIS.
Onward, badass unicorns! Onward!
LG
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July 11, 2014
My amazing Grandmother! I just came from visiting my Grandma Maude — who is 101…
My amazing Grandmother!
I just came from visiting my Grandma Maude — who is 101 years old (and a half!) and who is also the vein of iron that runs beneath the bedrock of this family.
Her powers are mighty, and — to my eye — undiminished.
Her quote of today: "Well, it's no use ever complaining, because it doesn't change anything, and all it does is make everyone around you miserable."
A toast to the strength of the matriarchs of this world. May their iron run stronger through our own veins every year…
LG
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in one of my favorite places in the world: Galway, I…
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS in one of my favorite places in the world: Galway, Ireland. Cheers!
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Here you are in Galway , Ireland !
I've been savouring the hard back version & today I saw the paper back !!
Come to Ireland , pleasssse !
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