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Kristin van Ogtrop on the (Inevitable) Midlife Indignities
Excerpted from the memoir Did I Say That Out Loud? by Kristin van Ogtrop. Copyright © Available from Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Something happened in the past few years—something sneaky and silent that I didn’t even realize was a problem until it was right upon me, like a bat about to fly into my hair: Everyone around me became mindful.
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When you were a kid, did you worry about mindfulness? Of course not. You just did your thing, tra-la-la-ing through life, with a relatively mindless approach that usually worked just fine. Now, suddenly, people are paying so much attention! Greeting every situation with open hearts and discerning minds, bidding each other namaste everywhere they go. And “learning” how to breathe, which, last time I checked, generally doesn’t need to be taught?
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A Q&#;A with Author and Literary Agent Kristin van Ogtrop