When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love
(April 2012, O Magazine)
Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him behind the ears, where he most smells like sweet unwashed new potatoes. This is in fact what I think God may smell like, a young child's slightly dirty neck.
Anne LamottShe wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act of aggression against the rest of us mothers who forgot to start working out after we had kids.
Anne LamottI had to grip myself by the wrist not to pitch one good idea after another at them. . . . I writhed with the effort to stay silent. . . . Since Jax's birth my ideas about what would be best for everyone usually got in the way. Life is already an obstacle course, and when you're adding your own impediments (thinking they're helping), you really crazy it up. You make it harder to even just cross the room. You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
Anne LamottYou lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals at home.
Anne LamottI recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly
Anne LamottDon't be mean to yourself, though . . .this is the only sin.
Anne LamottThe single most radical thing I know . . . is that I get to take care of myself.
Anne LamottLife is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical notes.
Anne LamottEverything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
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