Scripps Sunday #101 1/2 - Sierras Edition

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Anne Lamott: “There are tools out there to help you do the healing from that existential shame that a lot of us carry- this involves love and telling the truth and some writing.”

“My best friend died when I was 37. A few weeks before she died, we went shopping because I had this new boyfriend, and we were going to a Lucinda Williams concert and he wanted me to wear a cute dress and get dressed up. (I don’t have cute dresses – I dress like John Goodman). She was in a wig and a wheelchair, and I came out to model the dress for her and said, “Do you think this makes me look big in the hips?” And she looked at me so lovingly, “Annie, you don’t have that kind of time.” And it radicalized me.”

“I needed community around me. I needed women who had done the healing around these things.”

“It’s BIRD by BIRD.”

Jenn Hatmaker: “I’m in the process of actively rejecting this line item, but I am in the messy fight.”

Anne Lamott: “Every time we do the radical self-love on ourselves… every time we put on a swimsuit and we swim because the water is warm and we don’t care what anyone thinks, we are doing nautilus of the soul. Every time we take this action, we are doing some healing. It just is little by little.”

“If I were God’s west coast representative, a job for which I think I am uniquely suited, I would have a magic wand. And when you express some shyness or modesty or shame about your body, I would just go, “Oh sweetheart- Thank you for sharing that with me.” And I would tap you with my magic wand and then you would put on a bikini (not a miracle suit) and you would run and splash the Holy Spirit’s water all over you.”

https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/bonus/anne-lamott-on-faith-writing-and-radical-self-love-2/

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