I opened my morning pages notebook and saw a note from just two weeks ago that mentioned reading “Vein of Gold” and it sent me into a whirling blur. “Where did it go? Where did I put it?”
It was on the kitchen table the last time I noticed it. Sometime during the days when Thanksgiving came and went and then tech week came and went and “Miracle” opened that “Vein” was swept away in the mayhem and magic.
Now that it is calm once again, I want my book back!
I discovered “Vein of Gold” on a bargain table at Border’s recently. I had seen it before, but never had the inspiration to pick it up. It is one of Julia Cameron’s earliest books, a follow up to her wildly successful “The Artist’s Way.” I am a huge fan of Cameron’s, counting her as one of my most influential teachers.
Whenever I need inspiration, I open up the inside flap of one of her recent books and look at the huge list of accomplishments in the guise of an “Also By Julia Cameron” list. This list reminds me there are other writers like me who write across genre, refusing to get stuck-in-one-box-writer-dom.
There it meets me. Non-fiction, fiction, poetry, plays, feature film.
One of the first things I noticed when I first opened “Vein of Gold” was her list of “Also by’s” was only two other books.
My heart smiled when I read that abbreviated list, recording forever when Julia Cameron was a neophyte. Once again, she inspires and teaches me.
All that is left now is to find my book!
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