Anne Lamott: 12 truths I learned from life and writing
(آنا لاموت): إثنا عشر حقيقة تعلمتها من الحياة والكتابة
With disarming familiarity, Anne Lamott tackles what most don’t like to consider. Her honest writing helps us make sense of life’s chaos. Full bio
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sleeps just down the hall from me,
في الصالة بالقرب مني،
the best day ever."
على الإطلاق."
in the middle of the night,
and most of the people I know,
بالنسبة لي، ومعظم ممن أعرف من الناس،
of happy anticipation
before my 61st birthday,
من عيد ميلادي 61 عاماً،
of everything I know for sure.
أعرفه بالتأكيد.
in the popular culture,
في الثقافة الشعبية الشائعة،
of myself as being.
بنفسي كما هو.
وهو في أواخر السبعينيات من عمره
with something really wrong with him.
في الواقع.
of time and space,
that I was born in 1954.
في عام 1954.
of time and space.
and so are you,
وكذلك أنتم،
mentioning as an aside
if I hadn't followed
as much sun as possible
ما يمكنُ من أشعة الشمس
of a tinfoil reflector shield.
to face the truth
لمواجهة الحقيقة
in the last throes of middle age,
every single true thing I know.
and overwhelmed these days,
والعاطفة الغامرة هذه الأيام،
I'm almost positive about
التي أشعرُ بالإيجابية نحوها تقريبًا
operating instructions
really overwhelmed or beleaguered.
أو بالمحاصرة.
is that all truth is a paradox.
unfathomably beautiful gift,
ولا يمكنُ ادراكها
on the incarnational side of things.
من جهة تجسد واعادة الحياة للأشياء.
extremely sensitive.
ولدوا بحساسية مفرطة.
that we sometimes wonder
with heartbreaking sweetness and beauty,
والجمال بنفس الوقت،
وموسيقى (موزارت)،
everything will work again
nothing outside of you
في الجانب الخارجي منكم
serenity and peace of mind.
وراحة البال.
and I so resent it.
التي أستاء منها بشدة.
or lasting improvement
أو التحسين الدائم
your grown children
on their hero's journey.
فيما يتعلق برحلة أبطالهم.
the answer, anyway.
في معظم الاحيان.
all over everybody.
broken, clingy and scared,
وأصيب بالهلع،
to have it most together.
than you would believe,
to other people's outsides.
بالجانب الخارجي للأشخاص الآخرين.
than you already are.
or rescue any of them
أو تنقذوا أي واحد فيهم
and sober 30 years ago
وأصبح راشدة قبل 30 عاما
of my behavior and thinking.
عن تناول الخمور
is the "gift of desperation,"
هو "هبة اليأس"،
than I could lower my standards.
من خفض معاييري.
and trying to rescue is futile,
لا جدوى منها،
هو مقدارًا تناسبيًا،
into the atmosphere
"Well, isn't she full of herself,"
"حسنًا، أليست هي مغرورة متغطرسة؟"
فقط مثل (الموناليزا)
for one's goofy, self-centered,
is not actually a food.
طعامًا فعليًا.
في مصائد الثعابين
لأرجل الكراسي المترنحة.
to be considered an edible.
really terrible first drafts,
مسودات أولية سيئة فعلًا،
between you and them.
بينك وبينهم.
with themselves.
مع أنفسهم.
due the next day,
عليه تقديمها في اليوم التالي،
with an Audubon book,
(اودوبون)،
a little less young and remember brads --
ويتذكرون الدبابيس --
in your own voice.
about writing are: bird by bird
that happened to you is yours,
هو من عندكم أنتم،
more warmly about them,
بطريقة ودية أكثر،
if you wake up someday
فيما لو استيقظتم يومًا
of your heart:
visions and songs --
وأغانيكم --
creative successes
and evil people I've ever known
huge best sellers.
أكثر الكتب رواجًا ومبيعًا.
that all truth is paradox,
فالحقيقة متناقضة،
to get your work published,
gently of the fantasy
holes inside of you.
or a bluegrass band.
أو في فرقة شعبية أيضًا.
murals or birding
أو مراقبة الطيور في بيئتها الطبيعية
that no one else will.
والتي لن يقوم بها أي شخص آخر.
and astonishing they may also be.
feel homicidal or suicidal --
بأنكم ستقتلون أو تنتحرون --
specifically, were conceived and born.
تم تكوّنه وولادته.
start at the dinner table.
in comfortable pants.
وأنتم مرتاحون.
an intimate part of this,
for your cute little life.
من أجل حياتكم القصيرة الجميلة.
Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin
و (فلاديمير بوتين)
loves your new grandchild.
is what changes us, heals us
ويشفينا
and then buckle up.
وثم اربطوا حزام الأمان.
where it found you.
like Casper the Friendly Ghost,
or the mail will come
أو سيصل البريد
about yourself back.
مرةً أخرى.
in life and each other.
وفي بعضنا البعض.
إلى النهاية.
animating intelligence,
from the great "Deteriorata,"
the happiest person on Earth
the lessons of worship.
on the bottom of mason jars without lids
اسفل المرطبانات دون أغطية
bumping into the glass walls.
يصطدمون بالجدران الزجاجية.
you cannot live without die.
لا تستطيعون العيش دونهم.
and no matter what the culture says,
بغض النظر عمّا تقوله الثقافة،
as a major change of address,
مجرد تغيير رئيسي في العنوان،
will live again fully in your heart
في قلبكم
"There are cracks in everything,
"يوجد تصدعات في كل شيء،
our people again fully alive.
على قيد الحياة مجددًا.
you laugh out loud
nightmare of homesickness for you.
كابوسًا مدى الحياة للشعور بالغربة.
will heal you to some extent.
إلى حدٍ ما.
and hydrate and moisturize you
وسترطبكم الدموع
that God says to Moses?
الذي قاله الله إلى موسى؟
all evidence to the contrary.
على العكس من ذلك.
but it's the truest thing I know.
ولكنها أصدق حقيقة أعرفها.
like my tiny personal self,
مثل ذاتي الشخصية الصغيرة،
is as sacred as birth.
is easy and gentle
to whatever awaits us.
each other home."
faith and writing
and I said I'd love to.
وقلتُ، سأرغبُ بذلك.
that happened to you is yours
هو من عندكم
and feel really doomed
وبأنه محكوم عليهم
يحصلون على روح الفكاهة حول الموضوع
get their sense of humor about it
or friendly action,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anne Lamott - Novelist, essayistWith disarming familiarity, Anne Lamott tackles what most don’t like to consider. Her honest writing helps us make sense of life’s chaos.
Why you should listen
Anne Lamott hooks into our common experience and guides us to an understanding infused with openness. An activist, former alcoholic and Sunday School teacher, Lamott uses humor to weave through loss, parenthood, faith and the cancer diagnosis given to her best friend, in beloved books like Bird by Bird and Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. She says, "Hope begins in the dark ... if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
Her next book, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy, was released in April 2017.
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