Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while — - Anne Lamott

Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone — and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.

You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.