Comments on: Fooled into thinking that the world isn’t miraculous… (Anne Lamott) http://www.jslweb.com/blog/2007/03/28/fooled-into-thinking-that-the-world-isn%e2%80%99t-miraculous%e2%80%a6/ Thoughts on life, art, and religion Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen http://www.jslweb.com/blog/2007/03/28/fooled-into-thinking-that-the-world-isn%e2%80%99t-miraculous%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-2354 Stephen Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:44:31 +0000 http://www.jslweb.com/blog/?p=111#comment-2354 <a href="http://www.jslweb.com/blog/?p=56" rel="nofollow">Here is a link to a post I wrote about Anne Lamott's writing last year</a>, along with this commentary on her writing: <em>I recently read Anne Lamott’s novel “Crooked Little Heart”, and as I was finishing it I came to the conclusion that all of her writing could be summed up in this way: We are messed up people, living in a messed up world. We screw up all the time, but some of us are able to hide it better than others. And life is still beautiful. We are selfish, caring only about ourselves and our needs. We do whatever it takes to try and make ourselves comfortable, no matter who is hurt by it. We go to great lengths to protect our illusions of perfection. But every once in a while we help a friend, we allow ourselves to be inconvenienced, we put aside our rights. And life is beautiful.</em> Here is a link to a post I wrote about Anne Lamott’s writing last year, along with this commentary on her writing:

I recently read Anne Lamott’s novel “Crooked Little Heart”, and as I was finishing it I came to the conclusion that all of her writing could be summed up in this way: We are messed up people, living in a messed up world. We screw up all the time, but some of us are able to hide it better than others. And life is still beautiful. We are selfish, caring only about ourselves and our needs. We do whatever it takes to try and make ourselves comfortable, no matter who is hurt by it. We go to great lengths to protect our illusions of perfection. But every once in a while we help a friend, we allow ourselves to be inconvenienced, we put aside our rights. And life is beautiful.

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