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I do for myself exactly what i would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath, or go buy myself a fabulous pair of socks. i believe that you take the action, and then the insight follows - i do loving things for me, stroke my own shoulder, put myself down for a short nap, and the insight follows: that i am a wild precious woman, a human merely being, as e e cummings put it, deserving of respect, tenderness, protection, delight, and solidarity. and that is what home looks like for me now.
-Anne Lamott
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I Do For Myself Exactly What I

Anne Lamott
I do for myself exactly what i would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath, or go buy myself a fabulous pair of socks. i believe that you take the action, and then the insight follows - i do loving things for me, stroke my own shoulder, put myself down for a short nap, and the insight follows: that i am a wild precious woman, a human merely being, as e e cummings put it, deserving of respect, tenderness, protection, delight, and solidarity. and that is what home looks like for me now.
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