If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths … - Anne Lamott

Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there was a struggle going on inside me to find some sort of creative or spiritual or aesthetic way of seeing the world and organizing it in my head.

One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are.

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are. ... you can either practice being right or practice being kind. Screaming in the car helped. [p. 94]