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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... night of the soul.” —Publishers Weekly “What bubbles to the surface of Plan B–a wonderful, wise bundle of her characteristically blithe prose sure to become a bestseller—will tickle funny bones and enliven spirits.” —Chicago Sun-Times ...
... night of the soul.” —Publishers Weekly “What bubbles to the surface of Plan B–a wonderful, wise bundle of her characteristically blithe prose sure to become a bestseller—will tickle funny bones and enliven spirits.” —Chicago Sun-Times ...
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... bottom, the illusion of three-dimensional space, wisteria separate from the bridge it covers. What can I say to convince you the Houses of Parliament dissolve night after night to become the fluid dream of the Thames? I will not return.
... bottom, the illusion of three-dimensional space, wisteria separate from the bridge it covers. What can I say to convince you the Houses of Parliament dissolve night after night to become the fluid dream of the Thames? I will not return.
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... night before, the spies had already gotten away. Actually, she hid them on her roof, in stalks of flax. Why did she hide them, since, by the calculus of the world, that act endangered her? She did it because she was desperate, and so ...
... night before, the spies had already gotten away. Actually, she hid them on her roof, in stalks of flax. Why did she hide them, since, by the calculus of the world, that act endangered her? She did it because she was desperate, and so ...
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... Night Live. I hung my head and smiled to myself. “I forgot your name," she shouted. I told her, and she waved and headed down the hillside. I closed my eyes, breathed in calm, and grass; and then, the pièce de résistance: the smell of ...
... Night Live. I hung my head and smiled to myself. “I forgot your name," she shouted. I told her, and she waved and headed down the hillside. I closed my eyes, breathed in calm, and grass; and then, the pièce de résistance: the smell of ...
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... Night,” and most of the time, I have to let it go at that. I prayed for Sam and me. And then I called for 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 ...
... Night,” and most of the time, I have to let it go at that. I prayed for Sam and me. And then I called for 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 ...
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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