KPFA Radio 94.1 FM co-sponsors with Pace e Bene & Grace Cathedral:
Anne Lamott
Reading from “Almost Everything” & Conversing with Rev. John Dear “On Peace and Nonviolence”
Monday, May 20, 2019
Grace Cathedral 1100 California St., SF, CA.
- General admission: 7:00pm-9:00pm – $25 https://paceebene.org/
- Pre-event reception with Anne Lamott and John Dear:
- 5:00pm-6:30pm – $75 Space is limited
All proceeds to Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service and their project Campaign Nonviolence.
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“I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen.” —Anne Lamott
Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest–when we are, as she puts it, “doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated”–the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. “All truth is paradox,” Lamott writes, “and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change.” That is the time when we must pledge not to give up but “to do what Wendell Berry wrote: ‘Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'”
In this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life’s essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward.
- Anne Lamott is the New York Times best-selling author of Almost Everything; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Some Assembly Required; Plan B; Stitches; Help, Thanks, Wow; and other books.
- John Dear is a long time peace activist, priest, teacher of nonviolence, coordinator of Campaign Nonviolence, and author of many books including The Nonviolent Life; The Beatitudes of Peace; Living Peace; They Will Inherit the Earth; The Questions of Jesus; Transfiguration; and The God of Peace. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
For tickets and more information: www.paceebene.org