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Jun 5, 2023

"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us." --Anne Lamott

Let Us Commence

"I bet I'm beginning to make your parents really nervous -- here I am sort of bragging about being a dropout, and unemployable, and secretly making a pitch for you to follow your creative dreams, when what they want is for you to do well in your field, make them look good, and maybe also make a tiny fortune. But that is not your problem. Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are..." Anne Lamott shares more from a commencement speech she delivered at UC Berkeley in 2003.