Beautiful Big Magic — the Book AND the Magic

“Creative living is a path for the brave…we all know that when the courage dies, creativity dies with it. We all know that fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic; Creative Living Beyond Fear

What an image, eh?

I recently read Big Magic; Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray Love. Wow, wow, wow…I absolutely loved it.

Mind you, Gilbert is preaching to the converted when it comes to me and creativity. I really do strive to infuse inspiration and creativity into pretty much every component of my life — work, writing, e-mail management, household responsibilities, de-cluttering, finances, relationships, thank you cards, travel, health, exercise and so on.

In fact, it is when I forget that each day is a gift that, should I so choose, can be treated as a fresh canvas on which to create a mini masterpiece of a larger life well lived, the sometimes challenging creative tasks I usually enjoy — such as, say, working through a difficult rewrite of a screenplay — become dreaded chores of drudgery.

Which is why I really needed to read Big Magic when I did. As it tends to go with books, Big Magic found its way to me when I needed it most.