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Tag: Anne Lamott

Leap before you look

The problem with having had the gleam is that for it to mean anything, work has to ensue. I hate … More

Anne Lamott, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Cliff Yates, DBC Pierre, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Process

Another good week

Fourth Sunday in Advent This was another good week. Because it had rest in it. Because I re-read Anne Lamott’s … More

Advent, Anna Kamienska, Anne Lamott, Gratitude, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Prose Poetry, Queen's Gambit

Tired, but

I am tired. Though I write from a place of privilege and of safety, I am tired. Tired of feeling … More

Anne Lamott, Being Creative, Brain Pickings, Creativity, Edward Colston, James Baldwin, Josephine Corcoran, Karen Walrond, Life Lessons, Marie Howe, Marissa Davis, Max Richter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Presence, Rest, Shawna Lemay, Sigur Ros, Simon Parke

Saying goodbye

I want to congratulate you on passing this course and achieving QTS in this uniquely difficult and strange year. None … More

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, Children's Literature, Educating Teachers, Education, Initial Teacher Education, Literacy Education, literature, Seth Godin, Stitches, Teaching Literacy, The Icarus Deception

The Year of Living Deeply 15: You don’t have that kind of time

  About a month before my friend Pammy died, she said something that may have permanently changed me. We had … More

Anne Lamott, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Bird by Bird, Creativity, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

On Diane Abbott and Assange -Meditation on a line by Anne Lamott (LentBlog37)

  There’s an old Mel Brooks routine where the psychiatrist tells his patient, “Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli … More

Anne Lamott, anti-Semitism, Assange, Bird by Bird, Brexit, Chelsea Football Club, Climate Change, Climate Change Grief, Diane Abbott, Julian Assange, Labour, politics, Racism

Meditation on self-care (LentBlog30)

Like a lot of things I am ashamed to admit discovering late in life -Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Deborah Levy, … More

Anne Lamott, Audre Lorde, Deborah Levy, Emotional Labour, James Baldwin, John Berger, Sarah Pinto, Self-Care, Sharon McDonough, Siobhan O'Dwyer

Meditation on an envelope (LentBlog24)

Anne Lamott suggests an index card, and I have used these, but they suggest something pre-planned, organised. The envelope, especially … More

Anne Lamott, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Envelope, Index Cards, Notebooks, Stationery, The stationery thing, Writing Process

Meditation on a line by Joli Jensen (LentBlog21)

It isn’t often that you read something that you know as soon as you read it has the capacity to … More

Academic Writing, Anne Lamott, Being a Writer, Creativity, Joli Jensen, Julia Cameron, Life Lessons, Natalie Goldberg, Writing, Writing Practice, Writing Process

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