Calling all Elizabeth Gilbert fans!
I’ve just watched an amazingly inspiring talk by the author of Eat, Pray, Love. Funny, tender and real. She’s speaking about the creative process, but that means she’s also speaking about life. Living is the ultimate creative process.
The video lasts 20 minutes. Be kind to yourself – go grab a coffee and a couple of cookies and watch it. You won’t be sorry.
Hat tip to the wonderful Gina Trapani.
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o.k. i am saving this for a special treat very soon! i’ll be back after i watch
Just show up! I take it for your command in comments, Tess. So I did watch the Elizabeth Gilbert video. There is something celestial in the blackness of costume and theatre, where she shines like a galaxy. She IS poetry in performance! What you say in response, Tess, is perfect – “Living is the ultimate creative process.” ~ kigen
Lucy, hope you enjoy it.
Kigen, glad you did. And I truly believe that even if someone is completely uncreative in conventional ways (although I think that’s usually just a block of some kind) our true call is to the deepest possible creativity of life itself.
Other friends: I’m out for a few days so apologies if someone leave a comment and I don’t respond very soon.
A colleague/friend recently recommneded TED to me – and I’ve found it truly inspirational. I had seen Elizabeth G (although I hadn’t come across her before), and thought she was amazing. I loved the ideas about catching a glipmse of God and letting genius catch you, but also linking it with the need to slog through the hard, disciplined work as well.
Other TED’s that I;ve enjoyed recently are: Clifford Stoll (bizarre, but fantastic) and Barry Schwartz on practical wisdom.
Thanks ER, I must look out for those other TEDs you mention. (I like the talks also because my nickname is Ted!)
Tess,
I loved this piece! Very practical, inspirational for me to explain some of the moments I find in creating my artwork and actually in writing posts, etc. I had forgotten about TED.com – I watched Isabel Allende probably last year and was so impressed. I’ll have to keep it at the top!
ole! thank you, tess. this came at just the perfect moment for me!!
i was scribbling this morning and musing about why writing seems to come much more easily to “lucy” than that other one…this explains a lot, i think!
SS and Lucy, really glad you were able to relish this. Interesting about which of you writes more easily, “Lucy”.