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Simple Message...Repeated Needlessly

Be well. Do good work. And stay in touch.

Thus ended another Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Man, that guy’s got a voice that makes you want to just sit by the fire and listen for a spell. He could probably read the dictionary, and it’d be fairly interesting. For me the whole Prairie Home Companion thing is nostalgic, though I can’t even say when if ever I listened to it on a regular basis. Did my dad listen to it when he wasn’t exposing us to Baroque classics? Did my mom listen to it when she wasn’t censoring any and all media entering our household?

Be well. Do good work. And stay in touch.

Maybe it’s not about having listened to him in the past. Maybe it’s something to do with the simplicity of a radio program, the quaint majesty of the spoken word conveying images, thoughts, and narratives. No special effects. No choreographed fight scenes or high speed chases. Nothing in 3D whatsoever. Heck, I don’t even think it qualifies as 2D. Perhaps it’s just nostalgic the same way Norman Rockwell paintings are; it’s just the intended style, a crafted hominess.

Be well. Do good work. And stay in touch.

Then again, there’s something to that, an inherent honesty. Truth hits and tends to feel familiar. It’s what we want. Say what you want, but there’s rarely anything controversial about what gets said by Mr. Keillor. It feels right. It feels honest. It feels like where you want to be. Sometimes when what you want to hear, what you need to hear, and what you yourself have been trying to say however inarticulately meets with a soothing voice the message manages to settle in, for better or for worse. This time around, I think it’s for the better.

Be well. Do good work. And stay in touch.

3 comments Posted 2010-02-04 Author: THX 0477

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