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What a journey!
My apologies for missing the last book club meeting and I am sorry I missed the discussion -

The journey is Elizabeth Gilbert's journey - and it did read like fiction and sometimes it was difficult to believe that it was "true" - but I know when I tell my life story, it sounds much better (like fiction) than it probably actually played out.... so we take the good and the inspirational out of the actual .....
(just think about how you tell your children about your learning experiences....for example...)

This book did make me think about all the strange and unusual people (naming no names) who have made a difference in my life - Is life so straightforward that we miss those Richard's from Texas ??? She was open to every encounter and that made me identify with the story - or at least aspire to living a life where I was open to every encounter.... and realized that those encounters continue to enrich my life...
And she reaffirmed that some of us do not come to this "normal - expected " life naturally -
Some of us travel around in our emotional, personal, relational journeys to find ourselves and be able to have a true relationship - and that normal is not necessarily being just like where we came from or the community norm.....

Any reading that encourages me to examine my own life is good - this was good.

Seshat