Tag Archives: Anne Lamott

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

- Anne Lamott
Posted on July 18, 2019 by Laura B Hayden (Blog Writer, Sevenponds)
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“Almost Everything” by Anne Lamott

In these troubled times, Lamott offers "Notes on Hope"
Posted on June 14, 2019 by Laura B Hayden (Blog Writer, Sevenponds)

Anne Lamott’s essays on life (and death) in “Almost Everything” sound a bit like Ensign Nellie Forbush’s self-proclaimed cockeyed optimism amidst perilous times in Rogers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific.” Just as World War II endangers the lives of nurse Nellie … Continue reading →

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“I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.”

- Anne Lamott
Posted on April 11, 2019 by Laura B Hayden (Blog Writer, Sevenponds)
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“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

-Anne Lamott
Posted on September 29, 2015 by Ellary Allis (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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