Thanks from a groupie
Many thanks for all the generous offers of help! It appears that Anne Lamott’s reading in Atlanta is sold out, so I won’t be able to fling myself at her feet see her read there. Perhaps it’s all for the best, after all. Maybe it would have been like that …
Help a groupie
Oh, my. It appears that Anne Lamott I have written a new book called Grace (Eventually). Thanks to fabulous 37days reader Meg, who sent me a press clipping about it. And not only is there a new book, but evidently she I am reading it on March 24th in Atlanta, …
Claim your inner Pippi
It’s clear now. Anne Lamott is me. I am Anne Lamott. Let there be no more doubt about this doppelganger thing. And here’s the proof: I’m reading The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them. Writers like Chris Bohjalian, Dorothy Allison, …
Read this book…
Thanks to everyone for diversity book club suggestions – you are helping to create an amazing list. Keep those suggestions coming… The first book we’re reading for our April meeting is "The Time of Our Singing" by Richard Powers. My philosophy professor from way back in my days at Guilford …
Start a diversity bookclub
In any community, there are diversity issues – the natives vs the newcomers, race issues that pit black against white, gay and straight clashes, classism – and often, we’re not equipped to talk about them. Dialogue that approaches the issues head-on sometimes is too difficult, we avoid it, or we …
Let go of the monkey bar
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu Sometimes taking flight takes letting go. Letting go takes faith. Faith takes letting go. It all requires wings. And so it goes. As Kierkegaard has said, “Without risk there is no faith, and …
Retreat to move forward
Sometimes we have to retreat to move forward. The next 37days retreat is scheduled for September 28-30, 2007, and registration has just opened for it. Limited to 14 people, I hope you can be one of them. I’ll be joined by my business partner, David Robinson, in facilitating the weekend …
Happy Valentine’s Day from Billy Collins
Love The boy at the far end of the train carkept looking behind himas if he were afraid or expecting someone and then she appeared in the glass doorof the forward car and he roseand opened the door and let her in and she entered the car carryinga large black …
