Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00G6SEXLC | Format: EPUB
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair Description
From the best-selling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an honest, funny book about how to make sense of life's chaos.
What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what's truly important when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?
These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Anne Lamott's captivating follow-up to her New York Times best-selling Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book, Lamott explores how and where we find meaning in our modern, frantic age, especially after personal and public devastation; how we recapture peace and balance after loss; and how we locate our spiritual identities in these frazzled times. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time. It's in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth and humanity.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 1 hour and 47 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: October 29, 2013
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00G6SEXLC
If you like an approach to spirituality that is big-hearted, nonjudgmental, fun, joyous, smart, active, non-priggish and inclusive, welcome to Anne Lamott's books. You may wish she were your Sunday School teacher. I once thought that it's hard to get smart, spiritual and funny in a combination. Lamott serves it up.
This slim handbook of 98 pages on meaning, hope and repair is a follow-up to Lamott's previous book HELP, THANKS, WOW: The Three Essential Prayers. This book opens with the concept that "life holds beauty, magic and anguish". It tells you what you can do during the anguish. When our life is on track - having love, family, work - it's easier to cope with the anguish Lamott tells us.
But what do we do when our lives are off track, and we stumble upon evil, sadness, illness or death? What do you do on the really bad days during an extended rough time? Lamott sketches out some simple and deep concepts that have worked for her and those she has known. One concept inspired the title of this book and that's to keep stitching, take those next small steps which keep you going. They may be daily rituals like a walk around the neighborhood or a meal with a friend who listens well.
Some of Lamott's writing in this book which jumped off the pages for me - you will enjoy finding your own inspiration:
* "Oh, honey, buckle up, it gets worse."
* "We live stitch by stitch, when we're lucky."
* "My brothers and I were not encouraged to search for God, the obvious source of solace, but we three kids were led to the world of books, which to us was just as good. We found in books the divine plop, the joy of settling down deeply into something, worlds and realities greater than our own troubled minds.
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