It is so hard and weird that we wonder if we are being punked.
It has been a very bad match for those of us who were born extremely sensitive. Life is a precious unfathomably beautiful gift and it is impossible here, on the incarnational side of things. (My sober friend Paul O said, at 80, 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.ġ. 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 60s, i.e., to get as much sun as possible while slathered in baby oil. I thought I was only 47, but looking over the paperwork, I see that I was born in 1954. I am going to be 61 years old in 48 hours. |a Novelists, American |y 20th century |v Biography. |a New York : |b Riverhead Books, |c 2005. |a Plan B : |b further thoughts on faith / |c Anne Lamott. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, "Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration."
It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort and to make us laugh despite the grim realities.Īnne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. 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.įortunately 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. Environmental devastation looms even closer. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. From 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.Īs Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place.
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