Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past? - Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Worship good editors. They save you from yourself, from your blind spots, and from your weird little habits that you think are charming but actually are not.

We live stitch by stitch, when we’re lucky. If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. And maybe the stitching is crude, or it is unraveling, but if it were precise, we’d pretend that life was just fine and running like a Swiss watch. This is not helpful if on the inside our understanding is that life is more often a cuckoo clock with rusty gears.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.