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We have an almost full house tonight, that's great but I see a couple of extra chairs
今晚幾乎座無虛席，那很好，不過我看到一些加座，
and so I thought it would be nice to begin the evening with a little invitation to some folks that we might bring into the room.
我想小小的邀請一些人進入大廳是不錯的。
Maxine's new book I Love a Broad Margin to My Life is, that sentence is a quote from Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
湯女士的新書《我熱愛寬廣的生活》，這是從亨利·大衛·梭羅的《瓦爾登湖》中引用的一句話。
And it occurred to me to reflect on the fact that it's impossible not to imagine Thoreau walking these streets at some point in his life,
讓我無法克制地開始想象梭羅在這些街道上漫步的場景。
I don't know why, I could be imagining it but I do think that we could imagine Thoreau right here, so we'll invite him in.
不知道為什么，我一直在想這個，想象梭羅此刻就站在這里，我們把他迎進來。
I also have to say that across on the common Walt Whitman walked with Ralph Waldo Emerson talking about Leaves of Grass
不過我要說，華特·惠特曼和拉夫·沃爾多·埃莫森邊走邊談論草地上的落葉是很常見的，
and since Walt Whitman plays a role in this book that Maxine has written we can invite him in.
因為華特惠特曼在湯女士的書里是很重要的角色，我們可以邀請他來。
Since I'm thinking of this place I do think of the historical legacy of Chinatown,
這個地方讓我想到中國城往日的光輝，
so let's think about the entire population of immigrants who've experienced this area and, you know, in the past as well as the present,
讓我們想想生活在這個區域的廣大移民們在過去，和現在，
we should make room in our hearts and in our minds for them as well.
我們也應當為他們在心中和腦海中留有余地。
And when I think of The Fifth Book of Peace and that veterans writing group out in California
當我想到《和平第五書》，想到加州的那些老兵，
I can't help but notice that just up the street is the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans,
我就想起，這條街過去就是為無家可歸的老兵設的新英格蘭庇護所，
I don't know if any are here tonight but at least we could invite them in with our imagination.
我不知道這里是否有老兵，如果有的話，至少我們可以想象著邀請他們進來。
