Gifts

When somebody gives you something you can learn from, it's probably the best kind of gift ever. My friend Amanda gave me this beautiful book called The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. If I could recommend for you to read any book, this would be the one. The writing and drawings are poetic and magical. Each chapter is about a different area of life from eating and drinking, to love, to dying, and so on. There is so much emotion coming from the writing that I have to stop and think and write about what I just read. This is why I love books and love reading. I feel so lucky to have Amanda as a friend and for her to have given me this gift on my 28th birthday. So I end my first blog with my favorite passage of The Prophet,

"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight"