Or perhaps I just thought so because the first part about nature's joke of April 1, 2023 disappeared when I tried to paste in the part that you will recognize...many thanks to your reminder.....I think it was 3 years ago about Sidd Finch.
Let's try adding the codicil to my tale of whoa by adding that I meant to write BISHOP GENE ROBINSON. Keep on going and writing and hoping that this damn state of affairs will improve.
I miss GK's Good Poems series. i own one of your anthologies. PHC should consider a reboot of sorts. it was a slice down Lake Wobegan days where the women are above average. I even enjoyed the PHCompanion on dvd. i hear two wild & crazy guys are performing again. Steve & Martin. Thanks for all the old-time religion & satire. i miss radio that speaks with a fluid sense of belonging and a tinge of nostalgic bliss.
Susan Causey wrote: "I remember one of the episodes of PHC had a graduation speech that was made up of almost all clichés strung together."
I remember the speaker made it as a parody of graduation speeches, to make fun of all those clichés, but it was well-received, and the speaker won the prize for the best speech!
Perhaps I misspoke. I meant to say someone to whom I could talk and not feel that all the world and Aunt Sadie would know what I had said. Lord, if I got counseling, it would be many years before I got past the first day of school! I miss the priest we had when we first joined this church, but he and his wife and sons decamped to Illinois, and since then, we have had several priests who truly pissed people off. We live in a town that split up the current church back in 2003 when Bishop Gene Johnson was made thus, and those who clutched their real pearls at this church started an ANGLICAN church, don't you know, where men like women, and women do as they are told. It is most disheartening. I do enjoy your posts very much, look forward to your next book, and will "sing hymns," as my dear mother would say when things got tense at dinner. I am thankful for YouTube. You are so kind to respond; I am grateful.
Garrison: Dickensian librarian recommending a "good path to TROD..."!!... should TREAD lightly among English majors! The past participle "to have TROD", by God, will out, if must be trod!
Roger Krenkler - "F in English - 1960" , Not "F-in' English!", as Wallace said.
No, but I love "The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon which is a short story, Novella and a play by Wesley W. Bates. One of the funniest things I have even come across
I teach creative writing and hockey literature at The University of Maine. Regarding classics we have not read, I find solace in the words of the fine writer Clint McKeon who said, "What I haven't read would make for two literate people." We'll never get to it all. And in the words of our mutual friend Dave Moore, "Never enough time my man, never enough time."
Your reference to a "Lake Wobegon TV series pilot " sounds very interesting. It could connect with somany people who value small-town life like "The Andy Griffith Show has for many years. It's still watched on television today.
Garrison: I am so grateful for your comments on the joy and pleasure you receive whilst attending church every Sunday. I became an Episcopalian in 1994, and have attended a number of equally great and miserable churches since then. The music has always been wonderful, but oftentimes I find a priest who either is a priest who really, really wanted to be a RC priest, and acts accordingly. I digress. The church to which I belong, yet no longer attend, has a visiting priest who is essentially there to run the business, and help make a welcoming space to interview for a new priest. I have been enduring some crises in which I need to talk to a priest, yet I find this particular priest does not give the impression he wants to be a counselor, or even listener. The closest I have come over the past few years to hearing the music and witnessing the Spirit is viathe mentions throughout your column of what being an Episcopalian means to you. I am thankful for YouTube in being able to access church music (as well as the various forms of music I love). It's a sad thing to me that one can't access the priest of one's church when a familial crisis is occurring. Am I incorrect in assuming that I am on my own? Thankfully, Ann Flynt
Mr. Blakeman: Not all hayracks are (were) stationary. If one wanders through Google, there are many examples of pullable hayracks to be found. "In mid-summer, it was used to transport hay from field to barn." ( https://www.farmcollector.com/restoration/hayrack-gets-new-life-zm0z20augzbut/ ). Hayrakes can be pulled as well, but serve a different purpose, of course. Be careful about correcting octogenarians - I've found that they usually know what they're talking about. 😉
Re: Michael Giltz and “timor defectus librorum”, do you know of the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last”? My very favorite of all the TZ episodes, and Burgess Meredith is splendid in the role.
Dear Mr. Keillor: I certainly agree with your observation that there are few faces of color in Lutheran churches in America. At one time, when as slaves they were invited or forced to attend, the southern Lutheran churches actually had a large number. Ironically, due to colonialization and "evangelization" there are now approximately seven times the number of Lutherans in Africa as there are in North America. The number of Lutherans in Africa continues to increase which the number in North America, as with almost all traditional denominations, continues to decline. Why would be a long conversation. Thank you for the joy you bring on a daily basis.
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Or perhaps I just thought so because the first part about nature's joke of April 1, 2023 disappeared when I tried to paste in the part that you will recognize...many thanks to your reminder.....I think it was 3 years ago about Sidd Finch.
A half foot of snow in St Paul today
Somehow I failed to add this to my comment
Until now happiness and peace prevailed, yet
another possible reality is looming,
full of one's loneliness, suffering,
despair, and yearnings.
Let's try adding the codicil to my tale of whoa by adding that I meant to write BISHOP GENE ROBINSON. Keep on going and writing and hoping that this damn state of affairs will improve.
My father-in-law and mother are both octogenarians; they both teach me a lot! 😉
I miss GK's Good Poems series. i own one of your anthologies. PHC should consider a reboot of sorts. it was a slice down Lake Wobegan days where the women are above average. I even enjoyed the PHCompanion on dvd. i hear two wild & crazy guys are performing again. Steve & Martin. Thanks for all the old-time religion & satire. i miss radio that speaks with a fluid sense of belonging and a tinge of nostalgic bliss.
Susan Causey wrote: "I remember one of the episodes of PHC had a graduation speech that was made up of almost all clichés strung together."
I remember the speaker made it as a parody of graduation speeches, to make fun of all those clichés, but it was well-received, and the speaker won the prize for the best speech!
Vern Padgett
Perhaps I misspoke. I meant to say someone to whom I could talk and not feel that all the world and Aunt Sadie would know what I had said. Lord, if I got counseling, it would be many years before I got past the first day of school! I miss the priest we had when we first joined this church, but he and his wife and sons decamped to Illinois, and since then, we have had several priests who truly pissed people off. We live in a town that split up the current church back in 2003 when Bishop Gene Johnson was made thus, and those who clutched their real pearls at this church started an ANGLICAN church, don't you know, where men like women, and women do as they are told. It is most disheartening. I do enjoy your posts very much, look forward to your next book, and will "sing hymns," as my dear mother would say when things got tense at dinner. I am thankful for YouTube. You are so kind to respond; I am grateful.
Garrison: Dickensian librarian recommending a "good path to TROD..."!!... should TREAD lightly among English majors! The past participle "to have TROD", by God, will out, if must be trod!
Roger Krenkler - "F in English - 1960" , Not "F-in' English!", as Wallace said.
No, but I love "The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon which is a short story, Novella and a play by Wesley W. Bates. One of the funniest things I have even come across
Dear Garrison
I teach creative writing and hockey literature at The University of Maine. Regarding classics we have not read, I find solace in the words of the fine writer Clint McKeon who said, "What I haven't read would make for two literate people." We'll never get to it all. And in the words of our mutual friend Dave Moore, "Never enough time my man, never enough time."
Your reference to a "Lake Wobegon TV series pilot " sounds very interesting. It could connect with somany people who value small-town life like "The Andy Griffith Show has for many years. It's still watched on television today.
Garrison: I am so grateful for your comments on the joy and pleasure you receive whilst attending church every Sunday. I became an Episcopalian in 1994, and have attended a number of equally great and miserable churches since then. The music has always been wonderful, but oftentimes I find a priest who either is a priest who really, really wanted to be a RC priest, and acts accordingly. I digress. The church to which I belong, yet no longer attend, has a visiting priest who is essentially there to run the business, and help make a welcoming space to interview for a new priest. I have been enduring some crises in which I need to talk to a priest, yet I find this particular priest does not give the impression he wants to be a counselor, or even listener. The closest I have come over the past few years to hearing the music and witnessing the Spirit is viathe mentions throughout your column of what being an Episcopalian means to you. I am thankful for YouTube in being able to access church music (as well as the various forms of music I love). It's a sad thing to me that one can't access the priest of one's church when a familial crisis is occurring. Am I incorrect in assuming that I am on my own? Thankfully, Ann Flynt
Mr. Blakeman: Not all hayracks are (were) stationary. If one wanders through Google, there are many examples of pullable hayracks to be found. "In mid-summer, it was used to transport hay from field to barn." ( https://www.farmcollector.com/restoration/hayrack-gets-new-life-zm0z20augzbut/ ). Hayrakes can be pulled as well, but serve a different purpose, of course. Be careful about correcting octogenarians - I've found that they usually know what they're talking about. 😉
Re: Michael Giltz and “timor defectus librorum”, do you know of the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last”? My very favorite of all the TZ episodes, and Burgess Meredith is splendid in the role.
Dear Mr. Keillor: I certainly agree with your observation that there are few faces of color in Lutheran churches in America. At one time, when as slaves they were invited or forced to attend, the southern Lutheran churches actually had a large number. Ironically, due to colonialization and "evangelization" there are now approximately seven times the number of Lutherans in Africa as there are in North America. The number of Lutherans in Africa continues to increase which the number in North America, as with almost all traditional denominations, continues to decline. Why would be a long conversation. Thank you for the joy you bring on a daily basis.