Traveling Mercies

Hello writing family,

Anne Lamott's book, Traveling Mercies, is a blessing.  I just wanted to recommend to to you as I go a-traveling again.

It's kinda cool, when I first taught for the District my family did all sorts of things that left me feeling like I somehow, was an imposter, that I hadn't earned it for myself.  And I'd been teaching in all sorts of venues already, but this was the first time I would be a public school teacher, just like, mom, aunt, sister, grandparents, daddy, and on the list goes.  The imposter thing, it's real and true.

In the way Anne Lamott thinks, all that has happened so far has allowed me to have a chance to see that I was always meant to be a teacher, to know that I'm not an imposter, I'm real. I can bring that reality into service, communication and understanding, to everyone's benefit. We all learn when service is our purpose and language is our tool.

So thanks, keep me in your prayers as I cross the desert and go to the sea.