I have been feeling lately a bit like Julie Powell in Julie & Julia. You see, I have signed up to the 4th #HAHD Marathon Challenge – a Hundred Articles in a Hundred Days. And now it is nearing the end, I feel more like what Julie Powell must have felt every day.
My Facebook entries lately read something like:
“23 Articles left to write in 23 days – phew!”
“22 articles left to do in 23 days!!”
“20 Articles left to write in 22 days – Yaaaaayyyyy!!!!
“16 articles left to write in 20 days! Yippppeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I will not bore you with more drivel that I have been subjecting my friends to on Facebook; you get the picture!
Julie & Julia is a film about Julie Powell’s challenge of making the 526 recipes in Julia Child’s cookbook in 365 days. Julie was an author that was not writing in a job that was not satisfying. But she loved cooking. Cooking was the perfect anathema for her after a long day at work. And Julie adored Julia Childs. Julia Childs was the wife of a diplomat who found herself in Paris in the late 40′s with nothing interesting to do and then discovered the art of French cooking and brought it to the American masses. Her journey is beautifully portrayed in the film, as is Julie Powell’s admiration for her. Julie Powell’s inspiration was Julia Childs and her story.
And Julie kept a blog in which she chronicled her 536 recipes in 365 days challenge. In the film, she keeps saying things like “365 days. 536 recipes. One girl and a crappy outer borough kitchen.” And I remember in the film hearing x recipes remaining in y days, over and over again, as the story beautifully developed.
Julie is a funny and genuine person. Her blog, The Julie/Julia Project, chronicles her trials and tribulations going through this very hard task, getting it right and getting it wrong, the good days and bad days. Her friends are accomplished at what they do, and at the beginning of the film, you can see how she was overshadowed by their success and aching to find her own. And she does. She finds fame and fortune via her blog and finally becomes a proper writer, her first book being about her amazing challenge – which she meets wonderfully!
In a way, I admire Julie Powell like she admired Julia Childs. Julie Powell has been my guru whilst writing this challenge. She is a great inspiration. If you have not seen the film already, go and see it. It made me laugh, it made me cry, and it made me gasp in wonderment. I loved it so much, I saw it twice.
© Suzanne Zacharia 2010. My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. A virus caught at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy and am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer, helping others achieve health and happiness. Want to use this article? You can, as long as you credit me with it and invite your readers to get my FREE book “7 Real Truths of Energy Psychology” at http://www.newagetherapies.com or my free course “5 Days To Change Your Life” at http://www.NewAgeInternationalTraining.com
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