Bowen School of Law.Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. Vic Fleming is a district court judge in Little Rock, Ark., where he also teaches at the William H. That, with each passing day, it grows closer to becoming a part of one’s reality.Īnd that she wants and needs her readers to experience this with her. I sense, in “Small Victories,” that she’s transitioning, sensing and feeling now what she’s known intellectually all along – that death is part of life. She puts her stuff out there for others to see. Ultimately, the journey is worth the effort. And she’s been walking it and sharing it for a while now. It’s a twisty, winding road Lamott walks – and full of hard knocks. I learn, first-hand almost, how she reconciles with these perpetrators of … her life! Can there be forgiveness of someone after that person dies? Does it matter that the person is your parent? She takes me into her childhood home, where her parents’ marriage falls apart. She takes me through a late-life crisis, in which she registers on and has several dates. Annie takes me to San Quentin, where she’s to teach inmates how to tell stories. The loosely threaded chapters amble amiably along, past my eyes and through my mind and heart. … They ruin your multitasking high, … They bust you by being grateful for the day, while you are obsessed with how thin your lashes have become ….” She continues: “hey see themselves as fully alive.
If you know Lamott’s work, you sense that her literary tongue is in her ironic cheek. The lead in “Small Victories” takes me by storm: “The worst possible thing you can do when you’re down in the dumps … is to take a walk with dying friends. The subtitle, “Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace,” says a lot. At a chapter a night, the 286 pages go by in three weeks. I read “Small Victories” in bite-sized chunks. I forgive her, but not the organizers, for the latter’s discrimination. A Saturday morning follow-up was for women only. A Friday night gig packed a church sanctuary with over 700 people. You need to start somewhere.”Ī blurb from her latest book, “Small Victories” (2014), is the theme for this week’s I Swear Crossword.Īnnie, as she refers to herself, was in Little Rock recently.
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. “he reason life works … is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.”
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” “ Help is a prayer that’s always answered.” “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save they just stand there shining.” “he most we can hope for on some days is to end up a little less crazy than before.” The following are among my favorite Lamott quotes: And she’s a brilliant thinker and writer. Anne Lamott is something of an expert on grace.
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