hello there, the angel from my nightmare

[causeways]

I just finished reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott on Thursday evening, which I enjoyed the heck out of. It's a book about writing, but it's also a book about learning to be still and really look, really see the world and distill it in your writing, about learning to see the truth clearly and to write it as best you can. This was the message in

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[dmlpacker]

Yay! Sounds like your life is going pretty well right now ;)

[causeways]

It is, really! Sometimes I'm still not totally happy here, but a lot of it is still being new and also that winter is still not freaking over. Frankfurt in summer is supposed to be really great.

[wendy]

Ann Lamott is one of my all-time fave authors. If you haven't read her other autobiographical stuff, I strongly urge you to find it!

[causeways]

This was the first book I'd read of hers, but yeah, I will definitely have to check out her other books! It's always awesome to find new (to me anyway) authors who I love.

[nyoka]

I love Bird by Bird!

[causeways]

It's really fantastic stuff, huh? This is one of my favorite books about writing that I've read. I really enjoyed Stephen King's On Writing too, but I think that was more just because he is such a great storyteller when he wants to be -- he didn't really shed as much light on "this is what I do and how it works for me" as Lamott did.

[benitle]

YAY for moving! Are you staying in the area at least? You're gonna love having your own place. No more cats, no more shared stuff. All yours, yours, yours.

[causeways]

I'm still in the area! Not quite as close to you as when we were on the same street, haha, but not terribly far. I'm in Nordend-Ost, about a ten minute walk from Merianplatz.

And oh, I am sooo excited about getting to pick out my own houseware at IKEA. My roommate (soon to be not my roommate but still to be my friend!) and I have plans for an IKEA run. Extra great because she has a CAR.

[britomart_is]

I looooooooooove Bird by Bird!
Exciting about the boy!
I get VERY INTO kitchenware. I totally understand.

[causeways]

That book was totally the highlight of my last week or so! I ordered A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg in the same Amazon order, and am quite disappointed in it. She's the writer behind Orangette, which I have been obsessing about and reading every single post of from oldest to newest (am about halfway through) and am terribly bummed that her book is pretty much a structured rewrite of her blog. Although I guess I feel bad for most any book that would try to be the follow-up book in my reading list after Bird by Bird. Good luck being better!

It was definitely not a date, haha. It was a perfectly pleasant time and I laughed a lot but it was not at all a date. I had the random thought, as I was biking home, though, that someday I was going to meet a boy who I was going to like whole-heartedly and with whom I would not feel like I was just trying to wedge myself up again his life and make myself fit, and it was oddly comforting.

I suspect I will make an entire post about my new kitchen, once it exists. THRILLED.