Secret code

I may have mentioned once or twice that I’ve been reading Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert.

It’s a popular book. And I find that, when I read this memoir in public (say, on the subway or in the laundry room), women often check out what book I’m reading, and then smile at me in a warmly friendly manner. It’s as though my reading this book telegraphs that I, too, am a spiritual seeker, and we are members of the same tribe. Fascinating.