In this persistently anxious period for the country and world, where “it’s all Four Horsemen now, all the time,” as she puts it, Anne Lamott, writer of a few bestsellers, presents her characteristic insight and mind in her most recent book, “Almost Everything: Notes on Hope.”
It offers soul nourishment for the fatigued and protective counsel on how we would all be able to stay cool and keep our notorious “stuff” together, for example, “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
Lamott indicates out ways keep trust alive, for example, Remembering there is still love and goodness; and appreciating the world’s normal excellence, the intensity of stories, and our capacity to grasp internal peace.
And after that there’s fear. Life is loaded with mysteries, she composes; similarly that light both obscures and illuminates, fear as well, can work unexpected magic in tough occasions.
“Fear, against all odds, leads to community, to bravery and right action, and these give hope,” she writes.
The Lamott reliable and new perusers alike will locate some helpful treatment here, however the short book’s scattered nuggets of random truths often resonate greater than the entirety.