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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... Imperfect Birds Grace (Eventually) Blue Shoe Traveling Mercies Crooked Little Heart Bird by Bird Operating Instructions All New People Joe Jones Rosie Hard Laughter Plan B further thoughts on faith anne la mott Riverhead.
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... shoe. Then he reached down kindly and pulled me back to my feet. He had been dead several years before his sister told me that he used to hold his breath and pass out on the streets of Tokyo, where his parents were Presbyterian ...
... shoe. Then he reached down kindly and pulled me back to my feet. He had been dead several years before his sister told me that he used to hold his breath and pass out on the streets of Tokyo, where his parents were Presbyterian ...
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... shoe. My entire childhood passed before my eyes—kids holding their noses in schoolyards, parents commanding us all out of ... shoes and white gloves. I had a felt hat, with a red grosgrain ribbon around the brim, and tucked into that, a ...
... shoe. My entire childhood passed before my eyes—kids holding their noses in schoolyards, parents commanding us all out of ... shoes and white gloves. I had a felt hat, with a red grosgrain ribbon around the brim, and tucked into that, a ...
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... shoe against the wet grass, then sat down on the concrete piling and looked at my shoe. There was an enormous amount of doggage embedded in its elaborate treads. Muttering, I searched for a stick in the grass, and once I found one ...
... shoe against the wet grass, then sat down on the concrete piling and looked at my shoe. There was an enormous amount of doggage embedded in its elaborate treads. Muttering, I searched for a stick in the grass, and once I found one ...
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... shoes outside the front door, because I wanted to wash the soles off. Sam's shoes were on the front step, too, so muddy and worn that you might expect to find just one of them, at a flood site, or at low tide. This is how the guys wear ...
... shoes outside the front door, because I wanted to wash the soles off. Sam's shoes were on the front step, too, so muddy and worn that you might expect to find just one of them, at a flood site, or at low tide. This is how the guys wear ...
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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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