Anne Lamott shares her 12 truths learned from life and writing
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Anne Lamott shares her 12 truths learned from life and writing
15 minutes well spent. Enjoy this Sunday :)
1. All truth is a paradox
“heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, desperate poverty,floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together”
2. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you.
3. There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you're waiting for an organ.
4. Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared, even the people who seem to have it most together.
5. Chocolate with 75 percent cacao is not actually a food.
6. Writing Every writer you know writes really terrible first drafts, but they keep their butt in the chair. That's the secret of life.
7. Publication and temporary creative successes are something you have to recover from.
8. Families. Families are hard, hard, hard, no matter how cherished and astonishing they may also be. Again, see number one.
9. Food. Try to do a little better. I think you know what I mean.
10. Grace. Grace is spiritual WD-40, or water wings. The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin and me exactly as much as He or She loves your new grandchild. Go figure.
11. God just means goodness.
12. And finally: Death. Number 12. Wow and yikes. It's so hard to bear when the few people you cannot live without die. You'll never get over these losses, and no matter what the culture says, you're not supposed to. We Christians like to think of death as a major change of address, but in any case, the person will live again fully in your heart if you don't seal it off. Like Leonard Cohen said, "There are cracks in everything,and that's how the light gets in." And that's how we feel our people again fully alive
https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_lamott_12_truths_i_learned_from_life_and_writing/transcript?language=en#t-801638
Anne Lamott shares her 12 truths learned from life and writing
15 minutes well spent. Enjoy this Sunday :)
1. All truth is a paradox
“heartbreaking sweetness and beauty, desperate poverty,floods and babies and acne and Mozart, all swirled together”
2. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you.
3. There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you're waiting for an organ.
4. Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared, even the people who seem to have it most together.
5. Chocolate with 75 percent cacao is not actually a food.
6. Writing Every writer you know writes really terrible first drafts, but they keep their butt in the chair. That's the secret of life.
7. Publication and temporary creative successes are something you have to recover from.
8. Families. Families are hard, hard, hard, no matter how cherished and astonishing they may also be. Again, see number one.
9. Food. Try to do a little better. I think you know what I mean.
10. Grace. Grace is spiritual WD-40, or water wings. The mystery of grace is that God loves Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin and me exactly as much as He or She loves your new grandchild. Go figure.
11. God just means goodness.
12. And finally: Death. Number 12. Wow and yikes. It's so hard to bear when the few people you cannot live without die. You'll never get over these losses, and no matter what the culture says, you're not supposed to. We Christians like to think of death as a major change of address, but in any case, the person will live again fully in your heart if you don't seal it off. Like Leonard Cohen said, "There are cracks in everything,and that's how the light gets in." And that's how we feel our people again fully alive
https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_lamott_12_truths_i_learned_from_life_and_writing/transcript?language=en#t-801638
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