Comments on: Book Tour: Water for Elephants

By: JuliaS

JuliaS — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:45 +0000

I loved your reply to the second question - about becoming more you, adding on and acquiring more. What a neat way of looking at it. Thanks for your insights!:0)

By: seattlegal

seattlegal — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:45 +0000

I also had a hard time thinking of a question for a non-IF book (which is why I chose the one from the back of the book).Thanks for sharing your answers!

By: JuliaS

JuliaS — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:45 +0000

I loved your reply to the second question - about becoming more you, adding on and acquiring more. What a neat way of looking at it. Thanks for your insights!:0)

By: seattlegal

seattlegal — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:45 +0000

I also had a hard time thinking of a question for a non-IF book (which is why I chose the one from the back of the book).Thanks for sharing your answers!

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I hope you can make a good circus memory with your kids at some point I agree with Gabrielle. I also liked your thoughts on losing/not losing yourself.

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:44 +0000

Lori, I love, loved, loved this answer:"But I don't feel I have ever stopped being me. If anything, I continually become more Me.It seems like you go through the first part of your life adding to yourself. Trying on. Acquiring."Beautifully said. Confession here: I cried when I turned 20. Because I was convinced that I would never in my life has the intensity of feelings (good and bad) that I had experience in years leading up to it. 14 years later, and so, so wrong. How was I to know that I was just beginning acquiring the me that exists now, and that she would have the capabilities that I do now? How are we to know?

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I hope you can make a good circus memory with your kids at some point I agree with Gabrielle. I also liked your thoughts on losing/not losing yourself.

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:44 +0000

By: excavator

excavator — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:43 +0000

I third 'lemonade'. (Or, "Contaminated Water For Rubes")It was an entertaining story, but still just seemed kind of flat to me.Cracking up about your mention of Jacob's 'sagging flesh' after the remark about 'low hanging fruit'.Treat insight about the first part of your life being about 'adding', the second about shedding. Perhaps we're always doing both, but in the first part the net effect is adding, while in the latter the net effect is shedding. Which brings the question, has the balance shifted for me yet, and if so, when? Did waiting until my 40's to have kids prolong the moment of that shift?I'd like to hope that we don't become NOT ourselves, but more fully ourselves--refined, concentrated. The parts of the lives we lived before still with us, and informing who we become, but still always with us.I guess that's my hope, that at the end of my life I don't feel I have 'lost' myself, but have perfected it, and am fully connected and participating in my community--because I have so much more to offer. Perhaps Jacob's isolation at the end of his life is about his attention being on his losses--what he has shed.Thanks for provoking some more thought on this, Lori. I enjoyed participating in this with you, too. Love.

By: Antigone

Antigone — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:04:43 +0000

Yes, lemonade.