Katherina sent me this clip today of Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED speech. She had watched it and thought of me, which was really touching- so thanks Katherina!

She is the writer of ‘Eat Pray Love‘, a book that Michaela enjoyed so much that she has bought copies for lots of her friends. She speaks well.

Her subject material is familiar to anyone who lives a creative life. We pursue those tender transcendent moments, seeking to capture and preserve them in some kind of abstract bottle. But they are fleeting, and even if we manage somehow to inhabit them (or be inhabited by them) then what next? How can we live with the knowledge that it has been done, and may never be done again?

In my moments of blundering creativity, I still resonate with her description of being part of some strange collaboration between me and something other…

A conversation between myself and some external thing that is not quite me, and may originate in something that is wholly other.

Something that I understand as…

God.