Aging a la Anne Lamott

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This is not the first time I have dragged writer/author Anne Lamott into the spotlight for well-deserved laud. I love her voice and a whole lot of other things about her.

Sardonic, witty, spiritually grounded and insightful in a no-nonsense, non-preachy way. She’s funny. She gets that god must have a sense of humor to absorb and deflect the mess we masses have made of his/her/its many gifts.

So this piece she has written and had published in The Washington Post is her take on aging. I found it hard at first to put Anne Lamott in the crone category. But, according to the US Bureau of Statistics, at 70, she surely is.

So enjoy her essay/rant about the skulduggery and indignities of aging. And some of the good stuff, too. Lamott is such a pleasure to read and has such a quirky insightful voice that she almost manages to make aging sound fun.

I said almost.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/30/aging-health-strength-mind-heart/?_pml=1

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First published at 6 years old (The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, NB, Canada). Have written something every single day of my life, if only a To-Do list. Bearing down on writing THAT book for me and myself alone. If it resonates, reaches, inspires, disgusts, bores, or otherwise affects external readers, I have achieved all I wished to achieve on this planet.

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2 thoughts on “Aging a la Anne Lamott”

  1. YES! Yes – brilliant article – precisely what I’ve been experiencing since I turned 65. Now when my contemporaries get together, I call our meetings “the organ recital,” as we all seem to spend a lot of time reviewing which of our organs is currently giving us grief.

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