Maintaining connections with other people is a major factor in optimal aging. In this section, a number of contributors share their ideas and research on maintaining healthy relationships and establishing new ones.
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Pull Up Your Socks, People, Let's Get Going! by Garrison Keillor
(My World February 22, 2024)
The country needs something marvelous and fascinating to disperse the current gloom…
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Change
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History
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Humor
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Politics
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Technology
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Travel
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Trends
Last Wedneday, Stuck in a Traffic Jam by Garrison Keillor
(My World February 15, 2024)
New Yorkers have the ability to express despair and municipal pride in the same sentence. Joe Biden's visit created traffic jams, so I over-tipped the cabbie and hiked 12 blocks to my doctor who took my blood pressure and said it was excellent…
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Attitudes
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Contemplation, Insight
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Coping
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Humor
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Lifestyle, General
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News
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Optimal Aging
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Politics
We Need Each Other, It's a Fact by Garrison Keillor
(My World February 8, 2024)
We can get along without Wi-Fi and cellphones and streaming video, but we can't get along without each other. Come back to the zoo, Flaco. You're a celebrity, people want to look at you, accept your role in the world…
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Animals
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Freedom
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Humor
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Nature
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Relationships
Looking Forward to a Week of Uninformation by Garrison Keillor
(My World January 18, 2024)
Fighting evil is noble but in my old age I've come to feel that cheerfulness, gratitude, comedy are the essence of life, and so I look forward to the imminent arrival of my English relatives who love this country so sweetly…
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Contemplation, Insight
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Crime, Justice, Punishment
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Government
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History
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News
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
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Social Issues
Why I Won't be Playing Golf in Oman by Garrison Keillor
(My World June 29, 2023)
If the law doesn't apply to the big guys, then the peons and pissants are not going to abide by it either…
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Crime, Justice, Punishment
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Ethics & Morality
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Legal
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News
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Politics
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Social Issues
Why I Am Not Joining the Strike by Garrison Keillor
(My World May 11, 2023)
I salute the Hollywood writers who went out on strike this past week but I can tell you that we essayists won't be joining them…
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Arts & Entertainment
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Communication
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Current Events, News
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Language, Meaning
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Media
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News
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Popular Culture
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Writing
The Six-Minute Video Speaks Louder than Words by Garrison Keillor
(My World April 6, 2023)
Everyone should look at that six-minute video of men moving down the hall of the Covenant School. They don't stop to confer, discuss options — lives are in danger, terrified children in lockdown, and they run forward toward gunfire…
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Crime, Justice, Punishment
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Crisis
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Dying and Death
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News
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Social Issues
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Tragedy
Here're Your Orders: Make Something Beautiful by Garrison Keillor
(My World June 30, 2022)
Don’t be disheartened. Deal with the problem.. . . Exercise your gifts. Create beautiful things…
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Beliefs
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Crime, Justice, Punishment
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Government
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News
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Politics
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Social Issues
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Social Movements
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Social Unrest, Division
Some News, As We Know, is Realer than Other News by Garrison Keillor
(My World June 2, 2022)
In the aftermath of Uvalde: Life is good in this beautiful country that God has blessed, and the paranoids in our midst are missing out on all the best stuff…
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Crime, Justice, Punishment
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Current Events, News
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Dying and Death
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Dysfunctional, Broken
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News
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Social Issues
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Tragedy
Calm Down, People, It's Going to be Okay by Garrison Keillor
(Connections March 30, 2022)
Our problem isn’t polarization, it’s Twittification …
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Civility
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Communication
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Current Events, News
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Dysfunctional, Broken
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Faith
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Humor
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Jesus
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News
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Politics
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Popular Culture
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Social Issues
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Social Media
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War
Sitting Scared in Church, Thinking About Evil by Garrison Keillor
(My World March 17, 2022)
America has been so fascinated with our own circus, we didn’t fully appreciate true evil and now here’s Putin taking his place with Lenin and Stalin…
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Crisis
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Faith
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News
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Politics
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Religion
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War
Reality is a Good Antedote, America, Take a Long Hard Look by Garrison Keillor
(My World March 10, 2022)
Who will be our Zelensky?…
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Coping
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Crisis
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Dying and Death
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Government
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War