eat pray love, elizabeth gilbert

I'm reading Elizabeth Gilbert's eat pray love because I needed to and while reading tonight I happened upon this lovely thing said to her by a language exchange friend in Rome:

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

And I thought it was something I should remember, since I'm my worst and most evil critic.

The odd thing about this book was that I've wanted it a while.
I waited for money.

Earlier this week I thought to myself 'I should go to De Slegte and see if it's there'.
Then throught 'No, it's newish and it's popular. There's no way it will be'.

So some money came in and I ordered it online.
Yesterday I was visiting De Slegte, my favourite secondhand bookshop here in Antwerp and voila, the book really was there.

I smiled about the universe, was a little cross with myself for ignoring the whole 'feeling' I'd had about it maybe being there and put it back on the shelf.

This morning Gert announced that the online shop couldn't ship it, and suggested I go back into the city and see if the secondhand one was still there.

So I did and it was ...

I'm off into the dark and wet Antwerpen night to photograph a band soon ...