How to Begin When Your World Is Ending
A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything

There’s that wonderful poem “Hope is not a bird, Emily, it’s a sewer rat” and this book feels like a longer meditation on the same bits. Molly would say it’s a dance. We learn the steps. We move and even step on someone’s toes. I was afraid of that I’m picking up this book. My mom died of cancer in......more

A great story about finding joy and love when times are hard. I laughed and cried and not just because molly is one of my many mothers.......more

A powerful read. Great story-telling, I found each anecdote, whether family or friend or church member was both kindly and honestly told. It gave me as a reader permission to be vulnerable and probe painful experiences in my life. It reminds me there will be a time in the future, when things will tu......more

The world can feel depressingly dark at this moment in history, with large-scale challenges such as the pandemic, polarizing politics, and climate change creating unceasing anxiety. Closer to home, friends and family receive news of devasting lab results or other calamities. How can we survive the c......more

I didn't want this book to end. Molly Phinney Baskette exquisitely holds the AND from her own story and invites us to do the same. She names the devastating AND the deeply hopeful. There is beauty AND pain in the stories she shares. This book made me want to hold the AND in my own life: one can rece......more