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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... parents.” “It also looked like Christ had been abandoned on the cross. It looked like a win for the Romans.” “How do we help? How do we not lose our minds?” “You take care of the suffering.” “I can't get to Iraq.” “There are folks who ...
... parents.” “It also looked like Christ had been abandoned on the cross. It looked like a win for the Romans.” “How do we help? How do we not lose our minds?” “You take care of the suffering.” “I can't get to Iraq.” “There are folks who ...
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... parents were Presbyterian missionaries. I think he was a little angry: held breath is the ultimate withholding; you're not taking anything in, you're not putting anything out. I am a little angry, too. I feel that we 16 plan b.
... parents were Presbyterian missionaries. I think he was a little angry: held breath is the ultimate withholding; you're not taking anything in, you're not putting anything out. I am a little angry, too. I feel that we 16 plan b.
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... parents, kids, bodies, minds, certain presidents. All wise people say the same thing: that you are deserving of love, and that it's all here now, everything you need. There's the memoir by a Hindu writer, It's Here Now (Are You?), and ...
... parents, kids, bodies, minds, certain presidents. All wise people say the same thing: that you are deserving of love, and that it's all here now, everything you need. There's the memoir by a Hindu writer, It's Here Now (Are You?), and ...
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... parents commanding us all out of the car, demanding that we check our feet. Nothing isolated you so instantly as having stinky heatlines wafting visibly off your foot, like in the cartoons. It's a miracle that more of us didn't shoot up ...
... parents commanding us all out of the car, demanding that we check our feet. Nothing isolated you so instantly as having stinky heatlines wafting visibly off your foot, like in the cartoons. It's a miracle that more of us didn't shoot up ...
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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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