Bird by Bird

One of my favorite authors is Anne Lamott. I haven't read anything by her for a long time -- but something she wrote in 1995 has always stayed with me...

This was the first Anne Lamott book I ever read...

And this is what resonates with me today...20 years later....

 "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said. 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"

 I'm reading a lot nowadays....and they can't ALL be Alzheimer's books!  I'm going to try the FREE trial of Audible because my library doesn't have any Anne Lamott books on Libby.  She is exactly what I need right now.

The woman has a way with words...she also said this:  "There's no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this."