After wrapping up a meeting downtown for the pre-production of After Oil, my webseries with Jessica Naftaly, I headed down to a new cafe on Main Street and grabbed myself an iced coffee. While I was sitting out under the awning, I slipped out my copy of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and decided that, right then and there, I was going to finish reading it.
It dawns on me as I’m writing this that Big Magic is the first book that I’ve been able to get through all summer. I found myself nearing the end, and when I approached this quote, I felt I was about to cry: