Podcast 65: "Mon Dieu! Mille Félicitations to you French for the merveilleux et excitant Paris Olympics, and many thanks to YouTube (or Toi Tube) for the nightly highlights (points forts)."
I always enjoy your newsletter and The Writers Almanac. When will your tour venture northwest to the west coast of Canada?
Incidentally, basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891, while he was teaching at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is now one of the most popular sports in the world.
I hope you have watched some of the Paris Paraolympics, so very inspirational and amazing. What these athletes CAN do despite their disabilities is stratospheric! You’ll be wowed by the juice Bruce. Sarah Whitman
We walked up to the irrigation ditch and farmers pond (verboten). There is a treasure box buried there and my jean shorts on the bottom of the pond. I hung them on the inner tube stem, then flipped over and watched them sink. Had to walk home in swimsuit bottoms- didn’t get caught though
At 10-YEARS OLD I also was unsupervised enough to experience freedoms (riding bike and taking IC down to the LOOP). Perhaps we're among the luckiest once-kids still around from the 40s (or at least from the past Millennium) to have expanded our own universes to become self-thinkers/creative people.
I can’t watch the gymnasts, too terrifying. I treated a quad patient once who made a single, horrifying error, something he would never outgrow. That affected me deeply.
Speaking of new Olympic events, how about Gabriel Medina’s triumphant, death-defying barrel at Teahupo’o down there in French Polynesia? For some reason, I can watch surfing, maybe because I’ve been doing it for much of my life.
When we surfers err, we land on water (most of the time). You learn to fall flat, making your body into a pancake, when wiping out on a shallow reef. No falling flat at Teahupo’o, though. That wave throws.
GK, If you rode your bike from Anoka to the Mpls. public library, that was one heck of a trip for a ten year old. When we were six (1958 or so), we skated down the Minnehaha Creek to our Minnetonka elementary school late one November and were mighty proud of ourselves.
Heading home in the afternoon, though, the fresh ice softened here and there. If you weren’t careful…well, we had to pull a pal out. His pants froze on the way home and the poor guy couldn’t bend his knees. Hard to skate like that.
There was a different style of parenting back then, I guess.
Bring back Mark Twain (Sam Clemens), H.L. Mencken and Garrison Keillor who's wit and humor helped us, on Saturday evenings as the sun was going down, overcome (or at least temporarily overlook) the horrors of a nation predicated on endless war and explotation. (Sorry to veer into pedantry but as the scorpion said to the frog : "it's my nature.")
The only way I would go back is if life and time were envisioned by Garrison K.
I always enjoy your newsletter and The Writers Almanac. When will your tour venture northwest to the west coast of Canada?
Incidentally, basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891, while he was teaching at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is now one of the most popular sports in the world.
I hope you have watched some of the Paris Paraolympics, so very inspirational and amazing. What these athletes CAN do despite their disabilities is stratospheric! You’ll be wowed by the juice Bruce. Sarah Whitman
We walked up to the irrigation ditch and farmers pond (verboten). There is a treasure box buried there and my jean shorts on the bottom of the pond. I hung them on the inner tube stem, then flipped over and watched them sink. Had to walk home in swimsuit bottoms- didn’t get caught though
At 10-YEARS OLD I also was unsupervised enough to experience freedoms (riding bike and taking IC down to the LOOP). Perhaps we're among the luckiest once-kids still around from the 40s (or at least from the past Millennium) to have expanded our own universes to become self-thinkers/creative people.
Just checked the mileage from Anoka to the downtown Minneapolis library. 21 miles. Each way. Hmmm...
I can’t watch the gymnasts, too terrifying. I treated a quad patient once who made a single, horrifying error, something he would never outgrow. That affected me deeply.
Speaking of new Olympic events, how about Gabriel Medina’s triumphant, death-defying barrel at Teahupo’o down there in French Polynesia? For some reason, I can watch surfing, maybe because I’ve been doing it for much of my life.
When we surfers err, we land on water (most of the time). You learn to fall flat, making your body into a pancake, when wiping out on a shallow reef. No falling flat at Teahupo’o, though. That wave throws.
GK, If you rode your bike from Anoka to the Mpls. public library, that was one heck of a trip for a ten year old. When we were six (1958 or so), we skated down the Minnehaha Creek to our Minnetonka elementary school late one November and were mighty proud of ourselves.
Heading home in the afternoon, though, the fresh ice softened here and there. If you weren’t careful…well, we had to pull a pal out. His pants froze on the way home and the poor guy couldn’t bend his knees. Hard to skate like that.
There was a different style of parenting back then, I guess.
Make America Great (Again)!
Bring back Mark Twain (Sam Clemens), H.L. Mencken and Garrison Keillor who's wit and humor helped us, on Saturday evenings as the sun was going down, overcome (or at least temporarily overlook) the horrors of a nation predicated on endless war and explotation. (Sorry to veer into pedantry but as the scorpion said to the frog : "it's my nature.")
Good afternoon Garrison
We really need to hear more about this “new novel” you keep mentioning.
Enquiring minds want to know.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"I live in my own head, and I don't need a roommate."
Or as the schizophrenic said: "I live in my own head; and I'v got too many crazy roommates! Some of them psychopaths!"
Yes, Garrison! Always amusing enough to perch upon my pedestal.
Miss hearing you every weekend. We were so lucky for that.
There was a young man
from Cork who got limericks
and haiku confused.
My event is a 92 year old man trying to do what he did as a 62 year old. I manage most of the tasks, but some just take a bit longer.