In her late eighties, she stopped ironing handkerchiefs and sheets and pillowcases. Good enough. Some time wastage is unavoidable, such as unintentional nondimensional dementia in which physical objects float through space and the screwdriver you had in the kitchen winds up in your sock drawer and your grilled cheese sandwich departs the microwave and goes into a bookshelf atop a dictionary, but this is how I get my daily exercise, walking from room to room tracking things down.
So let me fill this remaining minute with a helpful suggestion or two. Pens, paper, postage, meds, matches, Kleenex, car keys, datebook, deodorant, Band-Aids, billfold, keep them in the vegetable drawer of the fridge. It is a state whose major industry is time demolition.
Survival is its own reason for existence. Nobility can come later. I used to go to parties where we gathered around someone with a guitar and sang about broken romance and drank until the liquor was gone and the next day I awoke in a fog to watch football with other inert men but I gave all that up long ago.
Gradually, a person edits out stuff that makes no sense and I scratched football, Florida vacations, artichokes, science fiction, pocket billiards, and broadcast journalism, and thus life became more and more interesting. Twenty since I put the bottle away. These changes make one hopeful for the future. And here we are, looking around at I was impressed when science found a way to put shampoo and conditioner into one bottle and when the cranberry and raisin married to form the craisin.
A miracle. I read about Boyan Slat, the young Dutchman who invented a boom that collects tons of plastic pollutants for recycling, pollutants that rivers dump into the seas and that kill fish, and it gives a person hope that we will work out the problems that a great many writers revel in despairing over, the fashionable dystopian soothsayers who prevail in academia and the media and who congregate on the coasts and talk to themselves about their iconic migraines and the systemic emptiness of life in Middle America, which they seldom set foot in but where their books sell by the truckload to comfortable people in need of the thrill of crisis.
This is the real story, a man of my generation rescued by the young. I know something about misery, having just spent four days in Florida, a state where nobody wears a mask and so I had visions of dying of COVID amid the junk food outlets and collapsible condos, but I did not die and came back north and now I have hope for The developer ex-president will find himself being questioned under oath this year, the dark cloud of perjury over his head, and his anti-science cult followers will be playing a bad hand in the November elections.
Solar energy will take great strides forward. Baseball will return. My friend Harry Reid who grew up dirt-poor and fought his father to protect his mother and hitchhiked forty miles to go to high school and who wound up marshaling the Affordable Care Act through the U.
Senate had a luminous faith in this country. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. 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 day in country musician Johnny Cash recorded a live concert at Folsom Prison in California. My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Africain American filmmaker, author, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was born in Alabama on this day in And the fun of it is watching the truthful parts slide together. A perfect gift book for Keillor fans and those approaching their older years! Read the preface here. A good move.
A grin that shows upper teeth, even gums! So the mask makes me normal. I love Christmas because my mother did and she fought for it against her fundamentalist husband who felt it was worldly and unscriptural, but Grace loved the stockings and tree, the wrappings, the songs, the dinner, and all the more for the fact that her mother died when my mother was seven.
Twelve children racked with grief, a grim household in south Minneapolis, which made the festivity all the more precious. It was interesting to hear this annual argument between two people who loved each other dearly. The Christmas of the goose, when I took the goose out of the oven and hot grease spilled on my wrist and I dropped it and the glass baking dish broke and the goose skidded across the kitchen floor collecting cat hair and glass fragments.
One year we did a Dickensian Christmas, had a tree with candles, did a group reading of A Christmas Carol and discovered that Scrooge has all the good lines, and nobody wants to be a Cratchit, they are such wimps. The reading was interrupted by screams — the tree was on fire.
Candles make sense if you have a freshly cut tree and ours had been harvested in September in Quebec. But the fire rescued us from Dickens so all was well. Woo woo woo. Cheese forever. Blame Omicron for empty store shelves. Stocks rise as inflation report keeps rate hikes on track.
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