Disagree Agree. Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Garrison Keillor is currently in the middle of a scandal. Get to know more about the situation, his wife Jenny Lind Nilsson and his family. I insisted that my dear wife go to Florida with her sister as planned and not fuss over me. She went and is having a fine time, which makes me happy.
When two guys have gone up your vein to your heart and fixed the flutter, you should put aside your mournful mortality and enjoy the gift.
My friend brushed the hair out of my eyes and a moment later she brought me a small plastic container of applesauce. And now let us turn to No. 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. But she worries about me walking on icy sidewalks. Pluperfect is our home. I have nothing against the idea of warm weather, except as it may indicate global warming that will trigger apocalyptic events that will cause great suffering to our great-grandchildren and their children.
Where is the stunned wonderment, why am I not writing a psalm or a rhapsody? It brings memories of college years when I imagined I was brilliant and now I am old and dull and the high ambitions of my youth are long vanished in the dust.
But when blizzards come along and hazardous driving warnings are issued, a man comes to life. A switch clicks deep in the brain. Now we have something serious to deal with.
Nature is trying to depopulate us. We put aside Christianity and go back to our pagan origins — the Bible takes place in a warm climate, Jesus went around in sandals and light raiment. A pack of wolves threatens our tiny arctic village and we must fight them off with clubs. A vicious pterodactyl has emerged from the forest and we must find large rocks and aim the catapult.
We the Keepers of Civilization are under attack and all our qualms disappear in a flash. We venture out into the howling storm to bring home pizza for our babies, we reassure them that Daddy is here and nothing bad will happen. Warm sunny weather depresses me. And the low point of our year is the summer vacation. It has a screened porch and a swimming pool and the loveliest eucalyptus trees in the yard.
Take a look at it. I tripped on a power cord and banged my head. Who did you say this is? Disability may be one of them.
You belong with me. They have the kindness gene. Men are inherently aggressive. You made me self-conscious. In my old age, I believe in small talk as the conduit of civility.
I got this from my dad who, though he was a devout Christian, loved to pass the time of day with strangers. This was curious to me as a kid, his friendly chatter with sinners.
Life is hard, winter is on the way, the kids are driving us crazy, but you and I, friend, are comrades in the quest for meaning and the struggle to get by. And there you have it, a magical connection. Eddie Rosario is a great player to watch, a clutch hitter, known for his tendency to swing at the first pitch, and in the eighth inning the night before he robbed Houston of a double with a dash to the left-field wall and an amazing backhand catch that you had to go online and click the replay six or eight times to believe.
And then he trotted, cool as could be, back to the dugout. The driver had never been to Minnesota but he knew Rosario had played there. We pulled up in front of church. He asked what Episcopalians are about and I said we believe God loves us and wants us to be at peace with each other.
He agreed. I overtipped him. An amazing catch in left field leads to a moment of fellowship and a statement of faith. I walked into the hushed silence and the Gospel reading was from Mark, where Jesus tells us to love our neighbor as ourself. One way to show love is to talk to each other, even small talk. Thanks for listening. It is his third marriage.
He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Playgirl named him one of the sexiest men in America. Actors hug, musicians hug, people were embracing every Saturday night left and right, and I stood off in the corner like a stone statue. So this is poetic irony of a high order. Coincidentally, Keillor defended Minnesota Sen. Al Franken in a syndicated column this week after Los Angeles radio news anchor Leeann Tweeden reported that Franken kissed and groped her without her consent during a USO tour.
Eleven years later, a talk show host in L. This is pure absurdity and the atrocity it leads to is a code of public deadliness. No kidding. Neal Justin covers the entertainment world, primarily TV and radio. He also reviews stand-up comedy. Justin is the founder of JCamp, a non-profit program for high-school journalists, and works on many fronts to further diversity in newsrooms. Home All Sections.
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