Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before… - Anne Lamott

Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

How are we going to get through this craziness?' I asked. There was silence for a moment.
'Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe,' he said.

I mean “God” as Jane Kenyon described God: “I am food on the prisoner’s plate . . . / the patient gardener / of the dry and weedy garden . . . / the stone step, / the latch, and the working hinge.” I mean “God” as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.