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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... sam's dad 31 four onoraht, noraht 43 five - holy of holies 101 57 six - this dog's life 79 seven adolescence 91 eight - sincere meditations 103 nine - heat 113 ten hard rain 125 eleven good friday world 135 twelve diamond heart 147 ...
... sam's dad 31 four onoraht, noraht 43 five - holy of holies 101 57 six - this dog's life 79 seven adolescence 91 eight - sincere meditations 103 nine - heat 113 ten hard rain 125 eleven good friday world 135 twelve diamond heart 147 ...
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... sam's brother 253 falling better 265 cruise ship 279 let us commence 299 monet refuses the operation Doctor, you say there are no. sixteen Seventeem eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four market street ...
... sam's brother 253 falling better 265 cruise ship 279 let us commence 299 monet refuses the operation Doctor, you say there are no. sixteen Seventeem eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four market street ...
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... Sam was a colicky baby. We are both more testy now on a regular basis, quicker to anger, and in my case, to weep and reevaluate the meaning of life. Sometimes I feel like the big possum who has been coming into our driveway lately ...
... Sam was a colicky baby. We are both more testy now on a regular basis, quicker to anger, and in my case, to weep and reevaluate the meaning of life. Sometimes I feel like the big possum who has been coming into our driveway lately ...
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... Sam to me, cords carrying life. Then I moved on to the story of Rahab, from Joshua 2 in the Hebrew Bible, whose life was saved by a red cord. She was one of the bad girls of the Old Testament, a prostitute in Jericho, at the end of the ...
... Sam to me, cords carrying life. Then I moved on to the story of Rahab, from Joshua 2 in the Hebrew Bible, whose life was saved by a red cord. She was one of the bad girls of the Old Testament, a prostitute in Jericho, at the end of the ...
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... up when they thanked me, remembering the wreck I'd been when I first started coming to St. Andrew, a year before I got sober. Then I went home and had a huge fight with Sam. It's hard to imagine things can get so ugly so 22 plan b.
... up when they thanked me, remembering the wreck I'd been when I first started coming to St. Andrew, a year before I got sober. Then I went home and had a huge fight with Sam. It's hard to imagine things can get so ugly so 22 plan b.
Contents
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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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