At the top of the pile on my bookshelf is Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, subtitled One Woman's search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia. I intercepted it as it was being passed from one person to another. My daughter-in-law finished it while we were spending the holidays in the Smoky Mountains together. She offered it to my husband, knowing that he regularly meditates. It is a book I have been wanting to read. I heard the author interviewed a couple of years ago on NPR and on one of my favorite podcasts, KCRW's Good Food. So I took temporary charge of the book.
So far I am in the Italy section of the book where she explores the pleasure of food, the Italian language, and a culture that values pleasure. Her overall desire voiced early in the book is "what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God." That seems an interesting challenge. After Italy I will follow her to an ashram in India and to a medicine man in Indonesia. It promises to be an interesting journey.
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