Almost Everything | Notes on Hope Shira Shaiman and the rights of her

and the rights of her nonhuman citizens

• Grace—how keeping our higher purpose always in sight helps us stop reacting with fear or anger

and rainy days

demonstrate the process in action

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Almost Everything | Notes on Hope Shira Shaiman and the rights of her"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over caffeinated" the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox,"