Almost Everything

by Anne Lamott

  We have all we need to come through. Against all odds, no matter what we’ve lost, no matter what messes we’ve made over time, no matter how dark the night, we offer and are offered kindness, soul, light, and food, which create breath and spaciousness, which create hope, sufficient unto the day.

  Acknowledgments

  I want to thank my editor, Jake Morrissey, for his wise, dogged, loving companionship for the past ten years.

  Riverhead Books has been the perfect home for me, so thank you, Geoff Kloske, Katie Freeman, Lydia Hirt, Kevin Murphy, and one of the world’s best copy editors, who makes my life a living hell, and saves me from mortification, Anna Jardine.

  I love my agent, Sarah Chalfant, at the Wylie Agency so much. We have been through it, huh, girl?

  Thank you, everyone at the Steven Barclay Agency, especially His Royal Majesty Steven.

  Thank you to my dearest friends who help me so much with my work, every step of the way: Doug Foster, Neshama Franklin, Janine Reid, Neal Allen, Judith Rubin, Mark Yaconelli. Thank you to my Jesuit brothers Tom Weston and Jim Harbaugh, and to Karen Carlson, from whom I’ve stolen some of my favorite lines.

  Thank you to my beloved family, Sam and Jax, my brothers John and Stevo, Clara and Nettie, Tyler and my cousins—the Morgens and Kellogg-Smiths, especially Robby Morgen. Thank you to my sober community, and to the people of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Marin City, California. Services at eleven.

  About the Author

  Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Hallelujah Anyway; Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; and Operating Instructions. She is also the author of seven novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

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