Tracey

“You never get over certain losses, but the anguish part eventually ends, and it all just sucks for a while. There were moments when I understood that there was nothing much I was going to understand or figure out. There was simply the present moment, awareness, impermanence, birdsong, love. There is no fixing this setup here. It seems broken and ruined at times, but it isn’t: it’s simply the nature of human life.”
― Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

“People are little truth-seeking missiles, but not many of us were encouraged to challenge our convictions and identities, except by writers and certain teachers, so we extracted meaning by selecting certain variables that agreed with our parents’ worldview. Yet the more variables we decide to include, the greater breadth of writing, the bigger bandwidth of truth, the more our understanding aligns with what truly is; paradoxically, the more expansively we can see, the more simple truth seems. Imagine the Google eye pulling back from the chaos and clutter of your garage, the jumble of the town where you live, and revealing patterns in the woods, the countryside, the canals and foothills, the crowds gathered to protest or sing.”
― Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope