Go with your flow, GK. Your up-home Woebegon instincts will continue to take you to the right fork in the road and help you press on.
Let's all be as tolerant as we can of those whose views are not our own. They arrived with a DNA, some like us politically, and some not. They didn't choose it. We don't have to like it, but we do need to forgive them, and they us.
You are a fine pied-piper who sings in harmony and can get others to harmonize too. That is not easy to do. Lead on and keep up the fine stories and the gathering songs that go with them. Gathering is what we are here for and you've done a very fine job of it.
Always loved the area where your bookstore was and the architecture of the buildings. We ate at a restaurant near your store. It had a fireplace in the room, and I’m sorry I cannot recall the name. I can see why you wanted to live in this particular part of St. Paul and have a bookstore there. It is beautiful. I’m glad though you are happy in New York and the anonymity it allows.
By the way, I’m enjoying “That Time of Year”. Only on page 53, but you are one of the few writers who is able to bring the compassionate side bubbling up with a touching story and then have you chuckling all on one page. So few authors are able to really touch one’s heart. You can always tell a good book by how involved you become with the author and of whom they write. Do you truly care about the people they are writing about? Every one of your books does this beautifully. You describe each person so well that they become someone you wish you had known or maybe knew during your life. You connect with them on a deep level and know why they do what they do with such understanding and forgiveness because of your compassion for them. Many authors do not have the ability. That’s what makes you a wonderful writer. Thank you, Mr. Keillor, for yet another fine work.
Garrison, my wife & I are GK fans since the 1980s when my dear far-right-wing uncle introduced us to PHC for reasons we can only guess. When you quit the show, we were stunned. We always felt (and still do) that you & Al Franken gave in too easily because that's how midwestern people do (I'm one too). If you're able to discuss what really happened, do you think you ever will?
Go with your flow, GK. Your up-home Woebegon instincts will continue to take you to the right fork in the road and help you press on.
Let's all be as tolerant as we can of those whose views are not our own. They arrived with a DNA, some like us politically, and some not. They didn't choose it. We don't have to like it, but we do need to forgive them, and they us.
You are a fine pied-piper who sings in harmony and can get others to harmonize too. That is not easy to do. Lead on and keep up the fine stories and the gathering songs that go with them. Gathering is what we are here for and you've done a very fine job of it.
Always loved the area where your bookstore was and the architecture of the buildings. We ate at a restaurant near your store. It had a fireplace in the room, and I’m sorry I cannot recall the name. I can see why you wanted to live in this particular part of St. Paul and have a bookstore there. It is beautiful. I’m glad though you are happy in New York and the anonymity it allows.
By the way, I’m enjoying “That Time of Year”. Only on page 53, but you are one of the few writers who is able to bring the compassionate side bubbling up with a touching story and then have you chuckling all on one page. So few authors are able to really touch one’s heart. You can always tell a good book by how involved you become with the author and of whom they write. Do you truly care about the people they are writing about? Every one of your books does this beautifully. You describe each person so well that they become someone you wish you had known or maybe knew during your life. You connect with them on a deep level and know why they do what they do with such understanding and forgiveness because of your compassion for them. Many authors do not have the ability. That’s what makes you a wonderful writer. Thank you, Mr. Keillor, for yet another fine work.
Garrison, my wife & I are GK fans since the 1980s when my dear far-right-wing uncle introduced us to PHC for reasons we can only guess. When you quit the show, we were stunned. We always felt (and still do) that you & Al Franken gave in too easily because that's how midwestern people do (I'm one too). If you're able to discuss what really happened, do you think you ever will?