This messy magnificent life: a field guide

Introduction / by Anne Lamott

Prologue : dropping the Me Project

Part one: Around the table

Manna

The last bite

Lasting weight loss

Heavenly bodies

If I were Gloria Steinem

The Red String Project

In the end

Part two : through the mind

Zen mind, puppy mind

Be kind to the ghost children

Hoodwinked by suffering

The four-month virus

Hummingbirds on my fingers

Crushed starts

What remains

Part three : into the sublime

A big quiet

The breaths I have left

Waiting for the apocalypse

What isn't wrong

The blue vest

Not minding what happens

Snorkeling in the night sky

Epilogue : stop waiting to be ready

Last words : touchstones for breaking the trance.