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    Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
    Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
    Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
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    Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

    Written by Maggie Smith

    Narrated by Maggie Smith

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    The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL

    “A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR
    “A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe
    “Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal.” —People

    For fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life’s challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience.

    When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem “Good Bones,” started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 6, 2020
    ISBN9781797103211
    Author

    Maggie Smith

    Maggie Smith has written and illustrated many picture books including My Blue Bunny, Bubbit and Beach Day. An accomplished sewist and owner of the Etsy shop Maggierama, she lives in Massachusetts. Visit her online at maggiebooks.com.

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    • 5/5
      If you need a reminder to just keep moving. This is the book.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Absolutely incredible, insightful, and inspiring book. Maggie Smith is dynamite in the greatest of ways and look forward to more of her work. Keep Moving!
    • 5/5
      Listening to Maggie Smith's calming voice read her wisdom was so reassuring and invigorating.
      Almost meditative, the melodic delivery is swell.
      I want to tackle tasks and listen to her encouragement all morning!
    • 5/5
      hit home with me. I loved it and I feel others will too!

    • 5/5
      Truly refreshing and beautiful to read. Raw and emotional. Clear on perspective and perception.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book so very much, I’m going to purchase a physical copy as well!
    • 3/5
      A nice, short book with good intentions. I read this in one sitting and I think I probably would have enjoyed it more had I picked it up from time to time and needed a motivational pick me up.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful, inspirational statements that motivate and resonate with me. Heartfelt without ever feeling fake.
    • 4/5
      3.5 Although Smith is focusing on her own mental health after her divorce, there is much within that can apply to our current situation. We have all suffered losses this year whether it be loved ones, loss of freedom, loss of living without fear, loss of businesses, livlhoods We all share a common grief over the heartache and lack of control over what is happening in the world, in our own countries, states. Covid has upended our lives in unprecedented ways, creating a new normal but one not easily excepted.I don't read many self help books, find much in them that is just pure common sense. Daily aspirations have never worked for me, though I know they have helped others. While this book does contain the usual common sense motivations, there are several that stood out for me."Trust that the present moment--however difficult, however different from what you imagined--has something to teach you""Stop thinking of change as interruption to a story; the story was always going to change, many times. It was never guaranteed. In fact, only change is guaranteed. Expect it today, and from now on?"ARC from Edelweiss.