Almost Everything Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott 170.44 LAM

      As the darkness of winter is at its peak and I look forward to a new year - a start over.  For depression to lift you may need medication, or a dog, or a new job you like, etc.  But most of all you need hope!
     This is not a how-to book.  Rather it is more a collection of her musings about life.  She talks about her own life or about those of others.  I frequently would stop during the book to reread a sentence or to think about it.  One such sentence was :
   " Your inside person does not have an age.  It is all the ages you have ever been and the age you are this very moment.  As soon as you get used to being some extremely advanced age that you used to think of as ancient and hoary, you will get even older, God willing. "
     I can really relate and take a moment to think about that.
     And then she continues:
     "You will rarely feel as old as you are, except when you have just returned from traveling overseas or are in line at the DMV"
      And suddenly I am laughing out loud.