” …Mr. Keillor said we spend our lives trying to remember how we saw the world as children.” —The View From Mrs. Sundberg’s Window
This quote is the kind of material that reminds me of why I like to listen to Prairie Home Companion and The Writers Almanac. Garrison Keillor is a genius with words, with both an ear for interesting words and a knack for speaking them with a delightful midwestern cadence.
When I last went to Summerfest, in Milwaukee, I saw James Taylor in the amphitheater. The review in the paper said that Mr. Taylor was like a favored pair of old blue jeans, “soft in all the right places, and tight in all the right places.” This sums up how I feel about Mr. Keillor’s radio work as well.
The question I am left with is the following. If we desire to recapture the feeling of seeing and feeling the world as we did when we are children — perhaps my time would be better spent trying not to teach my children to see the world the way I do.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
- Author: timbu
- Published: Jan 13th, 2004
- Category: Words & Language
- Comments: 1
Andy
on Jan 13th, 2004
@ 4:48 pm:
I’m with you all the way on Garrison Keillor. You highlighted all of the phrases that I have picked upon over the last three years.