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| Garrison Keillor
A book is a gift you can open again and again. A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer. Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. I want to resume the life of a shy person. It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is. Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit. Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze. Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it. |
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