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who is this woman?

April 7th, 2007 by tree

Okay, so lately, in the middle of all the chaos–or what can be categorized by an overwrought and melodramatic nature–of publishing and raising the difficult, lovable adolescent, I have been listening to this amazing book called Eat, Pray, Love. It’s the memoir of this writer who takes a year away from her own life and painful divorce to seek a spiritual path in three countries: Italy, India, and Indonesia. But it isn’t preachy or treachly. Her story is tender and friendly and self-deprecating. And it’s making me think a lot about what my own life is missing. I think it’s making me want to set some things straight, to maybe take up some meditation, to spend more time away from the screens. I don’t know who I am when I read this book.

6 Responses to “who is this woman?”

  1. on 07 Apr 2007 at 3:15 am   Anonymoose

    Instructions to one of the people I most love and admire in the whole world:

    1. Look in the mirror. What you see is what you are. But make sure you’re looking deep, deep…

    2. Put one foot in front of the other; rinse, and repeat until death.

    3. Don’t look for some magic 90 degree turn to restore the ‘magic’ that all we modern, civilized human beings are guaranteed by the Constitution.

    4. Define your ‘problems.’

    5. Confront them, shake the tree; if it’s Spring time, maybe some blossoms will unfold. If it’s the Fall, maybe the tree will lose all it’s leaves. (Unless it’a a pine tree, then this analogy is fails and I apologize.)

    Hey, if being ‘happy’ were easy, everyone would do it.

    Maybe I should apologize anyway…

  2. on 07 Apr 2007 at 2:22 pm   Binx

    This was a positive post. If you need to spend more time away from the screens, please at least check in once awhile anyway … even if it’s from a cyber cafe in Katmandu.

  3. on 08 Apr 2007 at 2:05 pm   tree

    Bert, you know I love you that much too. My potential adjustments aren’t radical. I think “introspection” might be the watchword. A step back.

    Binx, I feel optimistic. Even though it’s snowing and I have to drive 70 miles north for ham and potato salad.

    Happy Easter to you both.

  4. on 08 Apr 2007 at 2:32 pm   msjilly

    Tree,

    I love Bert too, he makes me smile. You also make me smile. I hope you find what you’re looking for inside yourself.

  5. on 09 Apr 2007 at 8:55 pm   emma

    I know what you mean

  6. on 10 Apr 2007 at 12:06 am   blu

    Hi Tree - I read that book when it was out in hardcover - right before my own sabbatical. :-) Great book and inspirational in it’s own way.

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