I read quite a bit - about the Packers, fishing, earth, and books on this and that - and one of my favorite authors out there today is Garrison Keillor. His weekly column is a true gem. Garrison may be a Minnesotan and he may dabble in politics too often, but he's also got a great command of the language, and I like his tempo. He's an influence on my work, no doubt – A true American Treasure. His column this week was 100 times better than anything I read about the Packers, and it started with this paragraph, which I'd like to share:
"I flew home from Washington Monday night, looking at live pictures on the BP website taken by an underwater robot of the greasy waters of the Gulf, and how's that for a Metaphor of Our Times? Aboard a Delta Airbus at 37,000 feet maneuvering around giant thunderheads, connected to the Internet via satellite, looking at dark gloop a mile below the sea, contemplating the death of a beautiful body of water, unable to think of a single sensible thing to do or say about this that would make a milligram of difference, and yet here I sit with a clear view of the situation, like a passenger in a car skidding slowly into the median."
You can read the full post here, and you can check out his archives at The Old Scout.
Have a great weekend folks, I'm off to the river,
FG
