Comments on: “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott http://curioushealing.com/2010/06/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/ Follow Sonia Connolly's curiosity about healing, business, and fun Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:45:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: “Traveling Mercies” by Anne Lamott | Curious, Healing http://curioushealing.com/2010/06/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 “Traveling Mercies” by Anne Lamott | Curious, Healing Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:10:54 +0000 http://curioushealing.com/?p=550#comment-1039 [...] for a quote about forgiveness. I usually find Anne Lamott’s books laugh-out-loud funny, reassuringly insightful, or disturbingly insightful. This book, a series of autobiographical essays about faith and [...] [...] for a quote about forgiveness. I usually find Anne Lamott’s books laugh-out-loud funny, reassuringly insightful, or disturbingly insightful. This book, a series of autobiographical essays about faith and [...]

]]> By: “Imperfect Birds” by Anne Lamott | Curious, Healing http://curioushealing.com/2010/06/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/comment-page-1/#comment-597 “Imperfect Birds” by Anne Lamott | Curious, Healing Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:31:19 +0000 http://curioushealing.com/?p=550#comment-597 [...] on the title, I thought this would be a sequel to Lamott’s Bird by Bird, about the process of writing. Instead, it is a novel about teenage angst, drug-use, manipulation, [...] [...] on the title, I thought this would be a sequel to Lamott’s Bird by Bird, about the process of writing. Instead, it is a novel about teenage angst, drug-use, manipulation, [...]

]]> By: Sonia Connolly http://curioushealing.com/2010/06/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Sonia Connolly Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:21:09 +0000 http://curioushealing.com/?p=550#comment-550 I like that e.l. doctorow quote too. It does remind me of a dream I had once where I followed my car's headlights right into the ocean, though. What a fun writing group idea! I like that e.l. doctorow quote too. It does remind me of a dream I had once where I followed my car’s headlights right into the ocean, though.

What a fun writing group idea!

]]> By: Laura http://curioushealing.com/2010/06/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/comment-page-1/#comment-549 Laura Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:21:56 +0000 http://curioushealing.com/?p=550#comment-549 I don't know if it's in her book or a film or recorded version of her writing workshop, but I also like her description from e.l. doctorow, something along the lines of: "Writing is like driving at night with the headlights on--you can see only a few feet in front of you, but you can make the whole journey that way." A writing group I was in several years back once had a night devoted to this book, with a "bird by bird" theme meal (many variations on chicken and eggs, including a very large turkey alongside meringue nests with marshmallow Peeps in them), a discussion of her book, and a writing exercise in which we all began with a line Lamott said she'd never been able to use (something like "six years later, the memory of the dead fish cubes still haunted her"). Fascinating assortment of writing samples from the benign to the truly macabre... :) I don’t know if it’s in her book or a film or recorded version of her writing workshop, but I also like her description from e.l. doctorow, something along the lines of: “Writing is like driving at night with the headlights on–you can see only a few feet in front of you, but you can make the whole journey that way.”

A writing group I was in several years back once had a night devoted to this book, with a “bird by bird” theme meal (many variations on chicken and eggs, including a very large turkey alongside meringue nests with marshmallow Peeps in them), a discussion of her book, and a writing exercise in which we all began with a line Lamott said she’d never been able to use (something like “six years later, the memory of the dead fish cubes still haunted her”). Fascinating assortment of writing samples from the benign to the truly macabre… :)

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