The Bucket and The Stone is the memoir of a woman who wanted to live a sparkly life. Lessons or stitches came out of these attempts. Mostly the small seamstress simply wanted to sit down and draw, but these larger life questions tumbled out through the space between the threads. The book’s transparent and open writing style reflects today’s cultural climate. With more humor and definitive action than The Artist’s Way, with a perspective on New York similar to MOBY’s Porcelain, with the unencumbered Jewish flair of Everything is Illuminated, and with the system of values set out in The 5 Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me, The Bucket and The Stone extends the conversation opened by these books in a new direction. By integrating the creative impulse and expressing art as life, the stitches act as guides and exercises that Elanit has personally developed through life and art experiments. There is really nothing quite like Bucket. Elanit is the only one to write this work because of individual first-hand experiences of 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, early success as an artist, and her personal intellectual soul journey – all to be able to scientifically explain the creative process as it relates to life.