We live stitch by stitch, when we’re lucky. If you fixate o… - Anne Lamott

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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.

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Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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