I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.
Mary KarrPoetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
Mary KarrHow much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.
Mary KarrI believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.
Mary Karr