Happy New Year

Ann Lamott is one of my favorite authors. As we move in to the New Year I thought you might like to read her uplifting words about how we spend the greater part of our days. Enjoy, Mindy


Here’s what she says about libraries in her book Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith:
I am going to walk to the library, because my church is too far away to go to on foot…In a library, you can find, small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I’ll walk to the library.

And here is what she says about librarians in Grace Eventually: Thoughts on Faith:
We were there [Ann and fellow authors were at a library] to celebrate some of the rare intelligence capabilities that our country can actually be proud of – those of librarians. I see them as healers and magicians. Librarians can tease out of inarticulate individuals enough information about what they are after to lead them on the path of connection. They are trail guides through the forest of shelves and aisles—you turn a person loose who has limited skills, and he’ll be walloped by the branches. But librarians match up readers with the right books: “Hey, is this one too complicated? Then why don’t you give this one a try?”