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Basic Joy

Anne Bentley Waddoups

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver

Hello, I'm Annie, an American living in Australia. Writer, researcher, professor, mum. Enthusiast: developmental psych, innovation, ideas, travel, design, stories, and a good laugh.

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“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:

Hooray for this happy couple! Congrats @thomcarter and Andrea @avioletdawn—wishing you every joy

What a glorious weekend on every level! Easter, a fantastic affirming general conference, the amazing Center for Civil and Human Rights, and a new sweet parenting experience: visiting our grown & married Lauren in her home and basking in her happy life with Patrick (and Fez).

“Spring” break. You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
•sudden snowstorm in Logan with our crew
•our canyon backyard (love that happy birdsong!)
•back in DC...cold but promising

Standing ovation from the lawn crocuses on this amazing Februne🌞 day.

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen...and under every deep a lower deep opens.” -🙌🏻 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading:

Ouch and yep. https://t.co/yvDy5pKdpm
about a month ago
As someone who takes notebooks very seriously (sadly often more seriously than actual in-the-chair writing), this r… https://t.co/UjijzTAg71
about a month ago
Maybe "unfeathered nest?" This is lovely: https://t.co/W0PtbOntqX
about 6 months ago

Writing Elsewhere:

Segullah
Letters to a Parent
Nest and Launch

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