For the record, your "old book" is still one of my first and favoritest go-tos for wisdom and perspective and hilarity. "Jesus wanting to drink gin out of the cat dish" is always a guaranteed belly laugh! <3
I was introduced to you in your book Traveling Mercies. Loved your humor, self-deprecation, and deep insights into yourself, this world, and the God behind it all! Have a "good trouble" kinda Lent!!
When I am busy and tempted to skip reading your piece, or others, and then I don’t … my heart is drawn and I’m so glad. Thank you, Anne. Hallelujah Anyway, indeed.
Thank you! I' just started rereading Bird By Bird this morning and this arrived. I’ll just chalk it up to the universe sending a message. Breathe and treasure. Thank you!
I appreciated your take on Lent and Ashes today, especially. I really liked the way your friend said, “Annie, you don’t have that kind of time.” I wish I could approach everything in my life with that saying!
Thank you for this good word.
For the record, your "old book" is still one of my first and favoritest go-tos for wisdom and perspective and hilarity. "Jesus wanting to drink gin out of the cat dish" is always a guaranteed belly laugh! <3
TM my favorite of all of your books.
"spermy, eggy chaos" THIS!!!!
Annie you help me breathe sighs of relief. I can laugh at myself, love my self, and you and the world again. We are striding into the future.
And love wins.
I have a great screensaver that says, "The trouble is, you think you have time."
And I don't. None of us do. Time has us.
"Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."
- Dylan Thomas, the last stanza of "Fern Hill"
At 80, you have no idea how meaningful this is to me!
I'm 72, so I have an inkling... "Fern Hill" is such a wonderful poem, and means so much more to me now than it did when I was 20.
Yes! I have an LP(!) of Dylan Thomas reading it!
I was introduced to you in your book Traveling Mercies. Loved your humor, self-deprecation, and deep insights into yourself, this world, and the God behind it all! Have a "good trouble" kinda Lent!!
I work in a substance abuse detox center. Thus far I have bought 2 Traveling Mercies for the bookshelf. They disappear. This cheers me immensely.
When I am busy and tempted to skip reading your piece, or others, and then I don’t … my heart is drawn and I’m so glad. Thank you, Anne. Hallelujah Anyway, indeed.
Thank you! I' just started rereading Bird By Bird this morning and this arrived. I’ll just chalk it up to the universe sending a message. Breathe and treasure. Thank you!
Love always wins!
Deal!!
I appreciated your take on Lent and Ashes today, especially. I really liked the way your friend said, “Annie, you don’t have that kind of time.” I wish I could approach everything in my life with that saying!
Thank you Anne Lamott for letting us know that it's o.k. to be human during good times and bad times ... that God gets us and still loves us.
You always catch my heart with truth and gentle levity that invites reflection.
Beautiful. No more words. Simply beautiful. Well, maybe one more word… Exquisite!❤️ and two more… thank you!❤️
Thanks.
Thank you 🙏💪🕊️🌸🌸🌸
Thank you, Anne.