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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... morning—not because it was my birthday but because I'd promised to get arrested the next day. I had been arrested three weeks earlier with an ecumenical bunch of religious peaceniks, people who still believe in Dr. King and Gandhi. Also ...
... morning—not because it was my birthday but because I'd promised to get arrested the next day. I had been arrested three weeks earlier with an ecumenical bunch of religious peaceniks, people who still believe in Dr. King and Gandhi. Also ...
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... mornings pinned to the bed by centrifugal sadness and frustration. A friend called to wish me Happy Birthday, and I remembered something she'd said many years ago, while reading a Vanity Fair article about Hitler's affair with his niece ...
... mornings pinned to the bed by centrifugal sadness and frustration. A friend called to wish me Happy Birthday, and I remembered something she'd said many years ago, while reading a Vanity Fair article about Hitler's affair with his niece ...
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... morning of my birthday, because I couldn't pray, I did what Matisse once said to do: “I don't know if I believe in God or not.... But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.” I closed ...
... morning of my birthday, because I couldn't pray, I did what Matisse once said to do: “I don't know if I believe in God or not.... But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.” I closed ...
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... morning, and in the cool of the evening. You seek oasis, shade, safety, refreshment. There'severy hue of green, and of gold. But I'm only pretending to think it's beautiful; I find it terribly scary. I walk on eggshells, and hold my ...
... morning, and in the cool of the evening. You seek oasis, shade, safety, refreshment. There'severy hue of green, and of gold. But I'm only pretending to think it's beautiful; I find it terribly scary. I walk on eggshells, and hold my ...
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... morning in church, while making us sandwiches, when Sam innocently mentioned in passing that his science report was due the next day, but he had left his binder in his locker at school, and would automatically be docked a grade for ...
... morning in church, while making us sandwiches, when Sam innocently mentioned in passing that his science report was due the next day, but he had left his binder in his locker at school, and would automatically be docked a grade for ...
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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