Garrison Keillor's request: 'Please be hesitant, Mr. President'

Garrison Keillor, reading on stage a decade ago (image: Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons)

I’m taking a little break from writing this Substack, backing away from the hurly-burly of political and corporate excess, reading around on a new project, one that might yield a series on a serious subject, of war and justice, that I hope will interest you.

In the meantime, I may post a few things I like and that you may not have seen. Like this one, from a man whose radio work I’ve admired for decades, and whose writing sounds just like his voice:

Garrison Keillor

. You may know his work already. If you don’t look him up: “A Prairie Home Companion.” “News from Lake Wobegon,” where “all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.”

He writes here of winter, sunbirds, and, of course and tangentially, the incoming president of the not-so United States. Tangentially here means “giving fresh perspective.”

Keillor played this autoharp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Public Broadcasting Act. Playing it - you stand, hold it against your heart, and strum - is what an old friend described as “making love to half the 10 Commandments”. He didn’t say which half, though. I still have one. (Image: LBJ Library from Austin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

I’ll be back before too long with more about …