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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith | Anne Lamott
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With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway bestseller, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. The world is a more dangerous place than it was when Lamott's Traveling Mercies was published five years ago. Terrorism and war have become the new normal; environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on Lamott's faith as well: turning fifty; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence; and the passing of friends and time. Fortunately for those of us who are anxious and scared 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 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 will prove to be further evidence that, as The Christian Science Monitor has written, "Everybody loves Anne Lamott."
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Lcsmcat
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Funny and insightful as always with Lamott. While the political references are dated the strategies she used to get through Bush frère will work in today‘s worse divisions. And the cats on the pillow agree. #doublespin #24in2024

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Lcsmcat
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Starting this today.

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mobill76

"Everyone seemed glad summer was over. Spring is sweet, the baby season; summer is the teenage season - too much energy, too much growth and beauty and heat and late nights, none of them what they are cracked up to be. Fall is the older season, a more seasoned season. The weather surrounds you instead of beating down on you. Clouds bobble across the sky, and there are fresh winds, and misty salmon sunrises, and then cool blue skies."

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"Neshama got up and told a second story. It was about her late husband, and a pool he would hike to, where there was a single whiskery fish swimming around. Neshama stripped her story down to it's essence, because only essence speaks to desperate people."

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mobill76

"Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me ME. It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for."

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goodbyefrancie
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Mavis and I are starting our weekend in the library. Hibernation is the theme of the day. A peaceful Saturday to you all, #littens

#CatsOfLitsy #MavisIsaBluesCat #LoveMyLibrary

Reecaspieces I love the idea of hibernation. I need that right now! But sad to say...off to work I go. Have a fabulous day! 4y
Velvetfur *gasp* The dark wood! The little steps! The puddy tat! That's a perfect picture! 😍 4y
AmyG Just lovely! 4y
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MargaretPinardAuthor Gorgeous library! And the steps are all. #dreamlibrary 🥰🙏🏾 4y
Lcsmcat I love your library steps! 4y
goodbyefrancie @Lcsmcat @MargaretPinardAuthor The steps were a flea market find. Possibly the fastest purchasing decision I have ever made. 💛🙂 4y
MargaretPinardAuthor Wow, I‘ll say! lucky find!! 😇 4y
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Lcsmcat
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MeganMarieWrites
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That‘s all.

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wonga
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#quotsynov17 #library what she said! 👍

AmyG What Anne always says. 👍🏻 7y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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#5fordinner
1. Anne Lamott (I adore her)
2. Joyce Carol Oates
3. Anne Rice
4. Kathleen Norris
5. Barbara Brown Taylor
My Mentors who have taught me so very much
Thanks for the tag

Lmstraubie I love Anne Lamott!! 💚💛💜 7y
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Jahzie
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't mean that you want to have lunch with the person. -Anne Lamott, Plan B

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Litchick33
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Lamott always seems to come into my life when I need her most... Part of her explanation of grace, I suppose. From stories of getting older, watching her son become a teenager, accepting imperfections... She gives me a dose of what I need without sounding at all preachy. Love her.