Have enjoyed your company for years through the written word and, can say with great enthusiasm and no doubt, i truly LOVE you! Thank you for the heart warmth and many, many smiles.
Thank you! I try to keep in mind that Love is a verb. Sometimes the action is overt, but most of the time it's securely inside where I remember to give someone some grace before I form an opinion.
Annie - this Haiku came to me recently. You might like it................................................................I hope the lines come through correctly - psr
Dear Ms. Lamott. Just a note to thank you for helping me get started writing again. The world is so hungry for authentic, loving voices. Yours is one. At first I mimicked it, but it didn’t take long for me to see I was doing it again (it’s an old habit). But then I just stopped trying to sound like anything else but what was in my heart. Now I do it every day and I love doing it. Most of the time, I don’t even think about how it would sound to someone else. Thank you.
Thank you, Anne. I have loved you since the 90s when i saw you speak at menlo park Presbyterian. I was in awe when you said, “I’m a Buddhist and a Christian, and there is no conflict there.”
I knew in that moment that that statement was true for me.
I am all faiths - they all lead to the same place when practiced purely- to this sticky stuff called love. I love you 💕
Thank you for being one of my spirit animals. Bless you. 🙏🏻
Wal...thank you for the LOVE, Anne. I feel "sploshed." Who doesn't need this?
Certain politicians who have power over millions of lives need this sploshing... hard as it is to do... need it most of all. But how very hard it is to put it there!! Hate is much easier, feels right, justified.Yet it does put the hater in the same mess of the hated. Only LOVE antidotes hatred, in all logical reasoning. How TO, is the question. I know I, as a little confused me, am inadequate to the job. Therefore, I try to yield my heart/soul/mind/spirit/life
to my/our Real Intelligence...the One who could not have made the Monster-humans that seem to rule over us. This Mind is 100% benign, total LOVE, pure Wisdom, ineffable Truth, Life Itself.
In proportion as I do...as i yield up my determined-ego-conclusions about it all, in THAT proportion do i gain some solid peace, clear direction for thought and action... and find some hope.....
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Btw, I asked Google the meaning of Valentines Day.
Actually laughed out loud
at the answers.
Oh, how very far humans stray from .... reality. Real Intelligent LOVE.
We came out from under the same , or at least similar, bush— although I did it with 11 others who also reeled from some of the same effects. thank God for humor, and especially yours.🙏
Have enjoyed your company for years through the written word and, can say with great enthusiasm and no doubt, i truly LOVE you! Thank you for the heart warmth and many, many smiles.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love …. Grateful for your words today. ❤️😻❤️
Thank you! I try to keep in mind that Love is a verb. Sometimes the action is overt, but most of the time it's securely inside where I remember to give someone some grace before I form an opinion.
Love is a verb. I like that.
“Before I form an opinion” 🥰 May I borrow this, Judith?
Yes.
Annie - this Haiku came to me recently. You might like it................................................................I hope the lines come through correctly - psr
love once came to me
a wind that bowled me over
softly it ran on
Dear Ms. Lamott. Just a note to thank you for helping me get started writing again. The world is so hungry for authentic, loving voices. Yours is one. At first I mimicked it, but it didn’t take long for me to see I was doing it again (it’s an old habit). But then I just stopped trying to sound like anything else but what was in my heart. Now I do it every day and I love doing it. Most of the time, I don’t even think about how it would sound to someone else. Thank you.
Way to go! My mother passed Sunday and she was writing a book she didnt tell anyone about except me. I am going to write my own, bird by bird.
Mama said, “every idiot thinks they can write a book…”
I say, “are you writing one?”
Mama says, “i started”
Me: “where is it?”
Mama: “I’m not telling.” 😂😂😂♥️♥️♥️🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️
So sorry about your mum. Sounds like she had a sense of humor. That’s something that will stay with you forever
I feel your love for Mama - and her words - in your words 🥰
We shall learn to write good sentences soon with the new book!
Sploshing right back at you, Anne.
Thank you, Anne. I have loved you since the 90s when i saw you speak at menlo park Presbyterian. I was in awe when you said, “I’m a Buddhist and a Christian, and there is no conflict there.”
I knew in that moment that that statement was true for me.
I am all faiths - they all lead to the same place when practiced purely- to this sticky stuff called love. I love you 💕
Thank you for being one of my spirit animals. Bless you. 🙏🏻
how about saying to your husband” I love you from the heart of my bottom”
My husband will love this!
GUS with us today . . . Love your covering us with love this Saturday in February.
Thank you SO much—you have saved the day!
I've now sent your post to so many people. "I am sploshing love all over you as I type, from my Awakened Heart to yours."
I keep a daily gratitude journal, I am reminded of this daily 🫶🏻
May even the truly “ worst of the worst” receive the 🩷sploshing. They need it the most!
Thank you, Anne, you sweetie pie!
Wal...thank you for the LOVE, Anne. I feel "sploshed." Who doesn't need this?
Certain politicians who have power over millions of lives need this sploshing... hard as it is to do... need it most of all. But how very hard it is to put it there!! Hate is much easier, feels right, justified.Yet it does put the hater in the same mess of the hated. Only LOVE antidotes hatred, in all logical reasoning. How TO, is the question. I know I, as a little confused me, am inadequate to the job. Therefore, I try to yield my heart/soul/mind/spirit/life
to my/our Real Intelligence...the One who could not have made the Monster-humans that seem to rule over us. This Mind is 100% benign, total LOVE, pure Wisdom, ineffable Truth, Life Itself.
In proportion as I do...as i yield up my determined-ego-conclusions about it all, in THAT proportion do i gain some solid peace, clear direction for thought and action... and find some hope.....
-------
Btw, I asked Google the meaning of Valentines Day.
Actually laughed out loud
at the answers.
Oh, how very far humans stray from .... reality. Real Intelligent LOVE.
What a wonderful splosh that washes the edges of hurt off my heart.
Keep sploshing, Mary Rose 🌹
Anne
We came out from under the same , or at least similar, bush— although I did it with 11 others who also reeled from some of the same effects. thank God for humor, and especially yours.🙏