Recently I started reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Big Magic. If you are looking for inspiration or how to find your creativity, this is the book for you. But, this is not a book review.
As I’ve been reading it, the clover patches in our yard have started to grow and occasionally produce the anomaly of the species: a four-leaf clover. As I have been finding them, I pick them and place them in the pages of the book. Now mind you, this is a library book. Technically, I suppose I am defacing public property.
But, my hope is that the next recipient of this book with find as much joy in the book as I have and that the clovers are a little extra bonus.
Maybe it will be you who sees those little dried, pressed clovers and think it is the sign they are looking for. I always think of that scene in Under the Tuscan Sun where the bird craps (sorry for being vulgar) on Diane Lane’s head in Bramasole. The elderly Italian lady sees this as a very good sign and sells her the villa. Maybe you are looking for a sign: A sign that this is the right thing to do; a sign that this is the way to go; a sign that despite what is happening in your life, things will get better. Maybe you don’t believe in signs, and that is ok too.
My daughter, Willow, says that you can’t transfer luck with a clover. But, I don’t believe that. Maybe when someone receives this book from the Berks County Library System and the clovers tumble out, they will feel the magic, luck and love that I sent along with it. Maybe they will keep a clover and pass the rest along or maybe they will add their own to it. Who knows… I’d like to think that I can make my own magic and luck and can pass a little bit of it along.
One of Elizabeth Gilbert’s quotes from Big Magic is “The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.” What strikes me about this statement is that the work is made through you, not by you. I’m making magic and sending luck and love through this book to the universe.
