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June 3, 2011
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Anne Bentley Waddoups
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“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
— Mary Oliver
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Hi, I'm Annie, enthusiast of words, development, faith, ideas, travel, design, movies, hygge, stories, and a good laugh.


“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”
— Wendell Berry



First time here?
A few posts to get you started:

Marriage
Passing the bridge of sighs
A modest proposal
A modest proposal ii
Adeste fideles

Life
Uncurbed enthusiasm
Liner notes to growing up
Sunday dinner @ 135
Playing big
In praise of late bloomers

Parenting
Triptych
Bless her heart
Paging EB White
Nine and a half
Madeleine, 16
Keystone parents
She holds these truths
Louie, Louie


Latest Instagrams:

Wadi Rum.
“Useless to think you’ll park and capture it
More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass 
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.”
~Seamus Heaney
Officially Petra-fied.
It’s really stunning and photos don’t quite do it justice. Humans can be so amazing. (Sometimes they can be decidedly unamazing, too, so this was a lovely, impressive reminder. More in stories if you want more glimpses...)
Sunset. Amen. 
First day in Amman.
2018, A Year of Contradictions:
•adventuring + turning inward
•whiplash changes + patient waiting
•tenacity + letting go
•maybe more loneliness than any other year + also more meaningful connection.
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It was a good year. Also, I stopped biting my nails! 🙌🏻 Bring it on, 2019!
Joy to the world and Merry Christmas from the land of frankincense and myrrh. (And some mirth, too.)
Merry Muscat Eve! (A Christmas road trip to Oman sounds like the premise of a Bob Hope + Bing Crosby movie, doesn’t it?)

Reading:


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Writing Elsewhere:

Segullah
Letters to a Parent
 
Nest and Launch


 
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