Almost everything: notes on hope
by Lamott, Anne
"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the headlines, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when everything makes us feel, as Lamott puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and overly caffeinated"--The seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox," Lamott writes,…
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- Full title :Almost everything : notes on hope / Anne Lamott.
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"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the headlines, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when everything makes us feel, as Lamott puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and overly caffeinated"--The seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox," Lamott writes, "and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change." That is the time when we must pledge, she says, "not to give up, but to do what Wendell Barry wrote: 'Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'" Lamott calls for all of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried in us that will make tomorrow better than today. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths as she sees them-- "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. Including you"--Lamott pinpoints these moments of insight and shines an encouraging light forward."--Page 4 of cover
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- Publication Date:©2018
- Edition:First large print edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Random House Large Print
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:240 pages (large print) ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781984827609, 198482760X
- oclc:on1045430277
- LC Classification:BL624
- Dewey Decimal:170/.44
Table of Contents
Prelude -- Puzzles -- Inside job -- Humans 101 -- Unplugged -- Don't let them get you to hate them -- Writing -- Bitter truth -- In the garden -- Hands of time -- Jah -- Food -- Famblies -- Coda: Hope.
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