http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/06/27/brain-caffeine/ digging deep, stretching up, reaching out Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:46:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/06/27/brain-caffeine/comment-page-1/#comment-2130 Kristin Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:58 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/06/27/brain-caffeine/#comment-2130 Just stopped by as I ran a search on "Anne Lamott quotes" - I love that one about knowing you've created God in your own image when all your enemies are his enemies, all your loves are his..etc. Obviously that's not It which is why I was running the search. But, I've never heard of Relevant magazine, or these latest gems from AL. Nice blog. Thanks! Just stopped by as I ran a search on “Anne Lamott quotes” - I love that one about knowing you’ve created God in your own image when all your enemies are his enemies, all your loves are his..etc. Obviously that’s not It which is why I was running the search. But, I’ve never heard of Relevant magazine, or these latest gems from AL. Nice blog. Thanks!

]]> http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/06/27/brain-caffeine/comment-page-1/#comment-607 Calacirian » Happy 2 to Me Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:45:36 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/06/27/brain-caffeine/#comment-607 [...] We’ve been retelling the old family stories from when I was a child and from their childhoods as well. Stories I’ve heard at least a million times, but now I’ve heard them a million and one. Funny, though, there are one or two I haven’t heard and this time I’ve told a few of my own from my childhood that LightMom hadn’t heard, or added my own perspective to a well known story that brought gales of laughter, or in one case a sense of relief. It made me think of this quote (which I first saw over at Mak’s place, but later read myself in Relevant magazine, by the grande damme herself, Anne Lamotte): One of my deepest beliefs is that every single thing that happens to you is yours. You get to own it, and you don’t have to keep others’ awful secrets for them anymore. You don’t have to be such a good son or such a good daughter that you can redeem their lives…If people don’t want you to write about them, then they should behave a lot better. It’s amazing when someone tells the truth. [...] [...] We’ve been retelling the old family stories from when I was a child and from their childhoods as well. Stories I’ve heard at least a million times, but now I’ve heard them a million and one. Funny, though, there are one or two I haven’t heard and this time I’ve told a few of my own from my childhood that LightMom hadn’t heard, or added my own perspective to a well known story that brought gales of laughter, or in one case a sense of relief. It made me think of this quote (which I first saw over at Mak’s place, but later read myself in Relevant magazine, by the grande damme herself, Anne Lamotte): One of my deepest beliefs is that every single thing that happens to you is yours. You get to own it, and you don’t have to keep others’ awful secrets for them anymore. You don’t have to be such a good son or such a good daughter that you can redeem their lives…If people don’t want you to write about them, then they should behave a lot better. It’s amazing when someone tells the truth. [...]

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