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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Page 6
... eyes, and got quiet. I tried to look like Mother Mary, with dreadlocks and a bad back. But within seconds, I was frantic to turn on the TV. I was in withdrawal—I needed more scolding from Donald Rumsfeld, and more malignant celebration ...
... eyes, and got quiet. I tried to look like Mother Mary, with dreadlocks and a bad back. But within seconds, I was frantic to turn on the TV. I was in withdrawal—I needed more scolding from Donald Rumsfeld, and more malignant celebration ...
Page 7
... eyes closed for so long that my dog, 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 ...
... eyes closed for so long that my dog, 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 ...
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... brine shrimp reproducing, like commas doing the macarena; and it seems, but only seems, that you went from parched to overflow in the blink of an eye. wear something on my wrist that one would not expect 11 ham of god.
... brine shrimp reproducing, like commas doing the macarena; and it seems, but only seems, that you went from parched to overflow in the blink of an eye. wear something on my wrist that one would not expect 11 ham of god.
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... eyes, makes a low growling sound, and starts kicking me under the table with Her foot. Rahab got the spies of the Israelites to swear that if she didn't rat them out, they would spare her and her family. She let the spies out the window ...
... eyes, makes a low growling sound, and starts kicking me under the table with Her foot. Rahab got the spies of the Israelites to swear that if she didn't rat them out, they would spare her and her family. She let the spies out the window ...
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... eyes closed, and I started to relax. But then I made a cardinal mistake: I started to think about how holy I was ... eyes so that she could see that I was in holiness mode. “It's windy!” she cried. I opened my eyes. She had a walking ...
... eyes closed, and I started to relax. But then I made a cardinal mistake: I started to think about how holy I was ... eyes so that she could see that I was in holiness mode. “It's windy!” she cried. I opened my eyes. She had a walking ...
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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