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Elizabeth Gilbert Is Right: Ideas Will Fly Away — Randye Kaye

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Yesterday morning, I finally sat down to write the blogpost I’ve been thinking about for - well - a year and a half. the one that quotes Paul Simon, “How Terribly Strange to be 70.” Except that I’m now 71 and a half (we celebrate half birthdays around here). I was almost done - just a few blanks to fill in, and I’ll submit later - but it was time to take my three grandchildren swimming . Off we went. A few hours and frizzy hair later. I got home to find that Anne LaMott, one of my favorite writers, had beat me to it. Her opinion piece, in the Washington Post, published just that day is called, of course “It’s not so ‘terribly strange to be 70’”. Insert sigh here. Procrastination. Foiled again. In her wonderful book, Big Magic,Elizabeth Gilbert shares her theory that if an idea comes to you, and you ignore it for too long (or put off taking action), it will fly away and land somewhere else. Yep. Let the record show that I love Anne LaMott’s piece on aging. This is why she is a “real” a

Elizabeth Gilbert Is Right: Ideas Will Fly Away Apr 12 Written By Randye Kaye Yesterday morning, I finally sat down to write the blogpost I’ve been thinking about for - well - a year and a half. the one that quotes Paul Simon, “How Terribly Strange to be 70.” Except that I’m now 71 and a half (we celebrate half birthdays around here). I was almost done - just a few blanks to fill in, and I’ll submit later - but it was time to take my three grandchildren swimming . Off we went. A few hours and frizzy hair later. I got home to find that Anne LaMott, one of my favorite writers, had beat me to it.

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