This happened when we took up residence in New York where having a car is mainly a hindrance, like owning a camel. And then there are times when traffic slows to 2 mph.
So you walk. I like New York because my wife loves it for the museums, theater, friends, and Central Park. A great civility prevails here. A woman stopped me the other day to point out that my shoelace was untied. I saw an old lady topple over and within three seconds, ten people were there at her side to assist and comfort.
I ask directions and people are helpful. The scooterist probably imagines he is a progressive but actually he is a terrorist. The only time the idea of gun ownership has crossed my mind was when an electric scooter swerved around me, running a red light, and I imagined pulling out my. At school I stood in line in the cafeteria, apologized if I bumped someone, and spoke when spoken to. Thus was I introduced to civil society.
I avoided the school bully. I met him at a class reunion recently and he told me about his extensive gun collection. No surprise there. When the scooterist zooms past me and barely avoids the stroller with two infants, I have to reconsider individualism as a way of life.
One hopes for the best: what else can you do? A dense crowd of considerate people. Spread the news. The Democrats lost the Virginia election because they nominated an old hack; wokeness had nothing to do with it. The fact is, we all have our weird biases and prejudices, I do, you do, it does, they do, and the point is to get a grip and be sweet. Or at least be civil.
We know each other well enough by now. Grumpy just needs someone to put their arm around him and lead him upstairs to bed. I was eleven or twelve and the preacher was talking about eternity in the smoking cauldrons of perdition as if it were scheduled for later in the evening and somehow this only intensified my interest in underwear.
I did not fight off her advance. Sex is about much much more than oil pumps levering up and down twenty times a minute pulling petroleum from deep in the earth. There are pluses to growing up strict fundamentalist, as I did, and one is that the idea of romance is terribly thrilling, the thought of perhaps putting your arm around a girl and then, if she looks at you in a certain way and maybe leans toward you, you might turn your head at a slight angle so that your lips would meet her lips.
I still get tremulous feelings when my wife walks into the kitchen in the morning in her nightgown. The talk. She has strong opinions about many things and I have always craved leadership and so I listen.
Do likewise. Have a good day. Be sweet. Great medical advances came along just as we needed them, and Medicare to pay for them. We are lucky to have been born when we were.
The young people in the streets are aware that a time of suffering lies ahead. Science is pretty clear about the ecological impact of industrial agriculture and the rapacious destruction of forests and overfishing of the seas and the virtual disappearance of many insect species, but none of this has enough political impact to turn the ship of state.
Or if Yellowstone blew up and ushered in a year of darkness. That could be the Pearl Harbor that moves our country to action. Children have great power to shame the rest of us, as every parent knows, and this cause is worth their effort. Everything we love is in the balance, language, art, music, history, the art of story, dance, Eros, baseball, bird-watching, and the effect of apocalypse on the bond market would not be good. The last Good War was won by boys who rushed to sign up, after seeing newsreels of sunken battleships in Hawaii.
One of the two major American political parties is in denial that global warming exists because it is devoted to an illiterate leader. That party appears likely to take over Congress in and two years later No.
If he does, we may have a constitutional convention at which the presidency is made a lifetime term. Meanwhile, we have a Supreme Court with a solid majority of Ayn Rand justices who deny that the state has the right to govern individual behavior.
Gun control will be dead, conservation will be an individual responsibility. Bezos and Mr. Musk can move to the moon but the rest of us are earthlings. I put my faith in scientific enterprise. Someone will come up with a way to turn plankton into something that looks like and tastes like ground beef. Someone else will figure out how to make linguine from dead leaves. Get busy and invent a car that runs on urine. So much gas is wasted by people driving around looking for a lavatory.
This will come as a great relief. Garrison Keillor will join guests for a casual Luncheon in the Lobby of the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center, where he will talk about how it all began and where he thinks he is going. On this date in the year B. Prior to that theater was chorus based storytelling. She took a male pseudonym to be taken seriously as a writer.
Today is the birthday of astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble He discovered that these distant galaxies were moving away from the Milky Way. Today is the birthday of the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel But something always comes up and catches my fancy.
I feel resurrected, but what to do with it? Did I win this privilege unfairly? Did I jump the line? I was dragging my feet, ready to enter retirement, dementia, and the nap in the dirt, but now apparently I am supposed to do something worthy of this amazing blessing.
But what? Maybe writing these dinky essays about the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees is no longer good enough. Thirty years ago, winter arrived on Halloween and Duluth got 37 inches of snow and the next day men were out shoveling their sidewalks.
It was a beautiful day. And a few months later I met my wife to whom I am still married and vice versa. To me, the blizzard and the romance are closely connected: having faced death, I was ready for love and she took me in her arms and there was a powerful mammalian attraction.
She gave off heat, I loved her conversation, I could imagine spending winter with her. The subject of Florida has arisen recently, now that she has family down there, and I have reminded her of the Florida condo building that collapsed. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress.
Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage Attribution-NoDerivatives 4. Thanks to my fiance's spectacular and nearly all out of print Garrison Keillor audio collection, we thus begin a series of Garrison Keillor Archives. In this first installment we present the four-cd set from , More News from Lake Wobegon , which contains many excellent and classic recitations by Mr.
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