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The Overly Sensitive Child
"All that is holding us together is stories and compassion"Barry Lopez "The Overly Sensitive Child," Chapter Two in Anne Lamott's Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair speaks to the parts of me that never really fit in as a child. As L...
read moreBodies
That's me, trying to make any progress at all with family, in work, relationships, self-image: scootch, scootch, stall; scootch, stall, catastrophic reversal; bog, bog, scootch. I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kinds of things; also, th...
read moreDance Class
See how the fearful chandelierTrembles above youEach time you open your mouthTo sing. Sing.Donald Justice In the first section in Anne Lamott's Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, "Dance Class," the last essay describes her experience being a "...
read moreA Field Theory of Beauty
Joy is the best make-up.Anne Lamott I write something about the body on Thursdays in an effort to reflect on - and in some sense celebrate - my marathon training the last few months. It is my attempt to signal (mostly to myself) that though it mig...
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Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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