Plan B: Further Thoughts on FaithFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. Environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on her faith as well: getting older; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence; and the passing of friends and time. Fortunately for those of us who are anxious about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope that we’re not alone in the midst of despair. It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort and to make us laugh despite the grim realities. Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, "Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration." |
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... lilies on water, above and below water, becomes lilac and mauve and yellow and white and cerulean lamps, small fists passing sunlight so quickly to one another that it would take long, streaminghair inside my brush to catch it. To paint ...
... lilies on water, above and below water, becomes lilac and mauve and yellow and white and cerulean lamps, small fists passing sunlight so quickly to one another that it would take long, streaminghair inside my brush to catch it. To paint ...
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... Lily, came over and worriedly licked me back to life. That cheered me up. “What did you get me for my birthday?” I asked. She started to chew on my head. That helped. Maybe the old left is dead, but after we've rested awhile we can ...
... Lily, came over and worriedly licked me back to life. That cheered me up. “What did you get me for my birthday?” I asked. She started to chew on my head. That helped. Maybe the old left is dead, but after we've rested awhile we can ...
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... Lily, my dog, and headed outside to the open-space hills behind my house. I go up there almost every day with Lily. It is a quiet and holy space. My family scattered my mother's ashes there last year, two years after she died: it had ...
... Lily, my dog, and headed outside to the open-space hills behind my house. I go up there almost every day with Lily. It is a quiet and holy space. My family scattered my mother's ashes there last year, two years after she died: it had ...
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... Lily and me until their owner stepped into the clearing and commanded them to be quiet. I smiled and waved, but closed my eyes so that she could see that I was in holiness mode. “It's windy!” she cried. I opened my eyes. She had a ...
... Lily and me until their owner stepped into the clearing and commanded them to be quiet. I smiled and waved, but closed my eyes so that she could see that I was in holiness mode. “It's windy!” she cried. I opened my eyes. She had a ...
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... Lily and headed back home in the drizzle. I took off my shoes outside the front door, because I wanted to wash the soles off. Sam's shoes were on the front step, too, so muddy and worn that you might expect to find just one of them, at ...
... Lily and headed back home in the drizzle. I took off my shoes outside the front door, because I wanted to wash the soles off. Sam's shoes were on the front step, too, so muddy and worn that you might expect to find just one of them, at ...
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three sams dad | 31 |
seven adolescence | 91 |
eight sincere meditations | 103 |
ten hard rain | 125 |
eleven good friday world | 135 |
twelve diamond heart | 147 |
fourteen joice to the world | 177 |
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