I’ve seen Gretchen Rubin’s blog, and the book begins by describing how she created it in conjunction with beginning work on this book. It reminds me a bit of “Dinner with Julia” (I’ve never read the book, but I’ve seen the movie.) Instead of reading Julia Child’s cookbook and trying her recipes for food and blogging about it, she reads various authors and tries their recipes for happiness and blogs about it.

Here is a short interview with Gretchen Rubin about writing her book:

http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2011/05/gretchen-rubin-why-samuel-johnson-is-the-patron-saint-of-my-happiness-project.html

More synchronicity. Some of the exercises towards the end of the book on doing a “daily examen” corresponded with my Miracle Project, as well as some of the things I was trying to read and do in my “Observe Lent 2011” 43 Things goal. Interesting.

I wrote about my spiritual formation group at the “join a spiritual formation group” goal on 43 Things. I didn’t do a great job with keeping up with all the exercises, but at least I stuck with it until the end.

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I’ve finished reading “Pride and Prejudice”, and wrote about it here on 43 Things.

It might take me a long while to read the rest. A looooong while.

A person on 43 Things started this goal awhile back, and I adopted the goal along with several others, and was interested to read about the progress of others. Unfortunately, due to the “buttongate” scandal on 43 Things, many of those people either deleted or changed their goal name. Nevertheless, I’m going to attempt to write a story under the original 43 Things goal about my progress in miracle-making, and then mark my 43 Things goal as “done”.

There was a weird synchronicity going on last fall. This book, which I was reading with my book group, was echoing a lot of the ideas I was reading about in different book that I was reading with another group at the same time.

There was a weird synchronicity going on last fall. This book, which I was reading with my spiritual formation group, was echoing a lot of the ideas I was reading about in a different book that I was reading with my book group at the same time.

Someone loaned this to me, and it was just TMI. I like Karen Armstrong, and I liked her case for God, but my brain could not absorb all the information on the history of religion. So I returned the book.

Too many books, too little time.

A friend of mine gave me a copy of this book yesterday. She is looking for a partner to work on this daily exercise with her. I just sort of skimmed through the book, but it sounds like it involves making a daily 10-minute list of things that you are not grateful for, as well as things that you are grateful for, and sharing it with the other person.

I’m very grateful that this friend helped me out by walking through my house with me yesterday, and although I wouldn’t call it a miracle yet, maybe it wouldn’t hurt to give this a try.

I never did finish this little book, but someone else seemed to need its message more than I did, so I gave it to her.