Oh but you guys are funny. The words! The words you create!

Dogalogue.

My god, if I were smarter and more productive, how I could capitalize on that bit of genius and make the dollars flow into my bank account with the power of Victoria Falls.

As it is, I've got so many happy little projects in front of me, this quest to be a zillionaire will have to wait its turn.

For those of you wondering, I do want to tell you that I finished Eat Pray Love yesterday whereupon I flipped back to the very first page and began it again.

In a word: breathtaking.

I. Love. This. Book.

It could be all about timing. It could be that the questions she focuses on are questions I am currently turning over in my mind. But it could also be a way of experiencing Italy, an ashram, and Bali that feels SO real without any of that annoying jet lag or struggle.

I am not normally one who would do anything called "travel reading" preferring actual travel to looking at it through a glass globe. However, the way she brings it all in with such specific details-- I don't know. I honestly felt like I just spent four months in Italy and god, I ate too much.

At core, her pursuit here is to find a balance between two callings: tactile pleasure (food, fabrics, people, architecture, etc) and austerity (spiritual devotion, daily simplicity, etc). And she does it with such passion and grace.

Her explorations here (both physically and mentally) have just fed me. They have nourished me to the core. And, they have helped to solidify the journey that I am on here. No, Soliden is nowhere nearly as exotic as Italy or Bali-- but it has its own peaceful beauty here that I can augment with as much bacchanalian saturnalia as the spirit calls for.

It's all about the balance, baby.

But the short answer is I cannot recommend this book enough-- if you are looking for a great read-- hie thee to the bookstore.

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