Anne Lamott is wise and funny and flawed and one of my favorite writers. Read this to get acquainted.
I am going to be 61 years old in 48 hours. Wow. I thought i was only forty-seven, but looking over the paperwork, I see that I was born in 1954.
My inside self does not have an age, although can’t help mentioning as an aside that it might have been useful had I not followed the Skin Care rules of the sixties, ie to get as much sun as possible, while slathered in baby oil. (My sober friend Paul O said, at eighty, that he felt like a young man who had something wrong with him.).
Anyway, I thought I might take the opportunity to write down every single thing I know, as of today.
1. All truth is a paradox. Life is a precious unfathomably beautiful gift; and it is impossible here, on the incarnational side of things. It has been a very bad match for those of…
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Why am I not surprised that you love Anne Lamott as do I. I’m glad I discovered this bit of her writing on your blog.
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I believe I discovered her throughout NNWP cohorts. I like her non-fiction best.
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