A piece on generosity from Lamott Bird by Bird (p 133): “Here is the best true story on giving I know, and it was told by Jack Kornfield of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre. An eight-year-old boy had a younger sister who was dying of leukemia, and he was told that without a …
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This is from Anne Lamott’s Bird by bird (pp 29-31): “When I was twenty-one, I had my tonsils removed. I was one of those people who got strep throat every few minutes, and my doctor finally decided that I needed to have my tonsils taken out. For the entire week afterwards, swallowing hurt so much …
Almost everything
I’ve just finished Almost Everything – Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott. Lamott is a very funny character, probably most famous for Bird By Bird, a book about writing, but really about spirituality too. She is in AA, is very active in the church, a Californian, a writer both of novels and of a variety …
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