A wise and compassionate exploration of how we can 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 sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?
These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Lamott’s profound follow-up to her New York Timesbestselling Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. 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, humor, and humanity.
“We live stitch by stitch, when we’re lucky…” I urge you to read this wonderful book, filled with Anne Lamott’s wisdom – often taken from personal experience – of how to begin “collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sew them back together, one stitch at a time.” While there are indeed descriptions of sewing and quilting woven throughout the book, there is also so much more. She even shares her perspective on the horror of the Newtown shootings.Lamott doesn’t gloss over hard truths. She…
“We are not rags.” Anne Lamott triumphs again. “Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair” is the perfect follow-up to Anne Lamott’s wonderful “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.”In “Stitches,” Lamott explores how we can piece our lives back together and keep going when life hands us–both as individuals and society–difficult or tragic circumstances. “You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags,” Lamott…