HeyJaredGarrison Keillor and Friends
This newsletter will include observational humor, gratitude, small doses of advice, memories of heroic persons I knew up close, reminiscence about ordinary life back before Twitter and thoughts about American life and other pleasures.
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Weathering the storm in the big city (opens the original)
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The Back Room September Essay Winner (opens the original)
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What I Did on My Summer VacationText within this block will maintain its original spacing when published I picked basil. A lot of basil. I washed it, dried it, stripped leaves from stems, and made enough pesto to suggest I was preparing for an Italian winter. I picked up tomatoes and peaches and lettuce at the farm share. I watched curtains move in open windows. I listened to lawnmowers. I traded vegetables for eggs still warm from a friend’s hens. I rescued a turtle from the driveway and scolde
Returning to a generous place (opens the original)
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I’m an old man and the ease of email and texting is a marvel to me, more so than to you kids, until I notice the time I spend daily erasing emails and texts from various noble causes and Nancy Pelosi and AOC and other Democrats asking for money, which I don’t even read, the first few words, “I’m sorry to bother you” or “This is important” or “Please don’t erase,” tell me what’s up, so I click on the trashcan icon and they’re gone. But it takes a lot of time. I probably could’ve finished reading
The News from September 27, 1986 (opens the original)
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At the risk of repeating myself (opens the original)
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