Short Assignments

Though it’s been at least a decade since I first read Anne Lamott’s BIRD BY BIRD, I must still remind myself of her essential lesson: that in order to endure (read: survive, with sanity intact) The Work – no matter how massive, depleting, relentless, needy, and rejuvenating (often in tandem) –, the journey, one must view it through a “one-inch picture frame” of next steps, one after the other, unfolding, bit by bit, until the end is reached.

Heat and muggy have returned for an encore: the r...