I Love This Woman...and So Should You.

Shanti-towners, meet Suzanne Morrison.

Suzanne, meet...everyone.

Ah sigh, I think I've fallen a litlte bit in love with this woman.  I can't...she's just...dreamy.  She's classy and smart and she writes actual novels and she's super smart (did I mention smart?)--she reads and ponders and writes--she's kind of the woman I want to be when I grow up.  Oh, wait.  What's that voice of reason?  I AM grown up? 

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.  (that was the sound of my heart sinking).

Suzanne and I actually went to college together, but we were only peripheral friends at that point...both of us spent a lot of time smoking on the steps outside the theatre building, so that's something.  I always sort of felt she was oh, just more of a WOMAN than I was...I always imagined her in dark bars, drinking wine and discussing literature with one of her other more sophisticated lady friends. She dated a grad student, for god's sake, how could I compete with that?

Anyhooo.  It wasn't until years later that our paths crossed again, this time in New York.  We ended up at a dinner party thrown by mutual friends, and she was just as smart (did I mention smart?) and funny as I rembered her.  When we saw each other again, she was just getting out of a long relationship (with aformentioned grad student) and I reminded her that my strongest memory of her from our college days was running into her once in a bar after I had broken up with my then-boyfriend.  She took one look at my dinner of cigarettes and a vodka cranberry and nodded sagely, saying only,  "ah, the break-up diet".  

Love her love her.

And now, all of these years later, Suzanne and I are both on the path of sanely-obsessed yogism, and I think it's safe to say...big fans of each other's work.

So, when I ran across this post today while visiting her blog...I just had to share it.  Because it's just a showcase of what a great f-ing writer she is.  I am so crazy excited for her new book to come out, and this post only made me more so.  And, though I'm not nearly a fancy enough writer to be able to give her a real blurb for her book, I can at least blurbblurbblurb it up here.

This one's for you, Suze:

"Suzanne Morrison is a gifted writer, whose creative well runs very deep.  She is doing all our hearts good by writing.  I haven't even read her book yet, but I already know it's good...that's how good she is.  I am so glad that there is at least one Suzanne Morrison out there in the world, trying to think more and be jerky less and hopefully, maybe, getting herself (and us) just a little bit closer to God in the process."