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The Powerful Drumming of Graduation by Garrison Keillor


(May 15, 2025)
unintelligible, not so much'English as the burbling of pigeons and chittering of squirrels, with words like 'journey,' ''accomplishments,''discovery,' and 'curiosity'” and the whole sentences I heard might’ve been composed by an older AI-powered speechbot
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Choices and Decision Making • Education • Hopes & Dreams • Humor


A Happy Man Out for a Drive by Garrison Keillor


(April 24, 2025)
We used to drive around with a big roa' map spread out and yell, 'I told you to turn west a half mile ago, ya dummy,” and now a robolady is our navigator directing us in gentle tones and road trips are more enjoyable. ic …
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wellness


A Wonderful Night in Lubbock by Garrison Keillor


(January 30, 2025)
I love the old hymns, face-to-face friendliness, good manners, the limerick, a walk in the park…
Topics: Communication • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Humor • Relationships • Travel


A Quiet Night in Manhattan by Garrison Keillor


(December 26, 2024)
My wife and I like to sit in the same room at night, doing our separate things, she in a chair reading a book, I at a table addressing Christmas cards…
Topics: Christmas • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Holidays • Holiday Season • Humor • Leisure


The Perils of Pedestrianism Explained by Garrison Keillor


(December 12, 2024)
Nonetheless, I like New York. I’m glad to be done with lawn mowing and snow shoveling. We live two blocks from the subway where the downtown train will take me to the main library or Lincoln Center or lunch in the Village…
Topics: Change • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Humor • Lifestyle, General


Happiness and the Price of Groceries by Garrison Keillor


(November 7, 2024)
love mac and cheese because I loved grade school back in the Fifties and that’s what Mabel served in the Benson School cafeteria…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Food & Nuitrition • Humor • Lifestyle, General • Memories


My Life Story (Short Version) by Garrison Keillor


(October 24, 2024)
I performed at Goshen College and got the audience to sing 'It Is Well with My Soul' and suddenly it was better with my soul than it had been in a long time. I have canoed in the Boundary Waters wilderness and slept on a beach and listened to the loons&he
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Coping • History • Humor • Loss & Grieving • Music • Opportunity • Optimal Aging • Sports


Waiting for a Cab One Night by Garrison Keillor


(October 17, 2024)
It was a dramatic sight, a lone person fallen in the midst of a busy scene in a huge city and you could see the alarm in the faces of the people in the taxi line: there but for the grace of God go I…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Contemplation, Insight • Memories • Travel


A Report on My Trip to Fargo by Garrison Keillor


(October 3, 2024)
The people at the airport were having a party out of affection for their uncles and brothers, and that’s a sweet thing. But I saw some ancient vets in wheelchairs who seemed confused by the cheering and a little worried about finding a ride home…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • History • Memories • News • Service • Veterans • War


My Most Important Message in Forty Years by James N. Watkins


(September 6, 2024)
All my conference keynotes condensed into one essential talk
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Faith • Learning • Wisdom


The Beauitful Winding Road of August by Garrison Keillor


(August 22, 2024)
According to the actuarial tables I am coming within sight of the end of my life, so why do I feel I am just hitting my stride?…
Topics: Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Opportunity • Optimal Aging • Politics • Relationships • Wisdom • Worship • Writing


It is Never Too Late to Learn a Lesson by Garrison Keillor


(August 15, 2024)
I, for one, have been on a tour doing a one-man show and having a great time until last week in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, after a dinner of six oysters on the half shell, clam chowder, and a lobster roll…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Contemplation, Insight • Food & Nuitrition • Humor • Learning • Travel


Even Prisners Need a Vacation Now and Then by Garrison Keillor


(July 25, 2024)
I started performing in my thirties for the usual reason, to be the center of attention, but now I hope to be useful. The country is in peril. Most people know this and don't need me to tell them.…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Leisure • Optimal Aging • Social Issues


A Trip Back Home to Get My Bearings by Garrison Keillor


(July 18, 2024)
College was wasted on me; work was what I wanted. It's still true today. My wife is a walker, I'm a worker. Thank you, St. Paul. See you again soon…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Memories • Politics


I Rise to Testify in My Own Defense by Garrison Keillor


(May 30, 2024)
'For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow,' said King Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes, and that was even before neurology came along to put more salt in the soup.
Topics: Change • Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Memory (failing, improving) • Optimal Aging • Wellness


Losing My Mind in New York and Then Fining It by Garrison Keillor


(May 23, 2024)
I am not in pain, thank you, but memory loss worries me because I am in the business of doing unscripted monologues from memory in front of paying audiences and if I can't do that anymore I'll have to go to Shady Pines and play bingo…
Topics: Change • Memory (failing, improving) • Mental Health • Optimal Aging • Weather


Let's Talk About Honesty, GRRRR, RRRFFF, RRRFFF by Garrison Keillor


(May 9, 2024)
I stay centered by writing limericks and praising the Lord, no matter what other people think. I look up at the stars and I sing…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Memories • Metaphors, Life Lessons


A Morning Walk Along Collumbus Avenue by Garrison Keillor


(April 18, 2024)
I want to tell the parents on Columbus Avenue, 'Take that kid on a trip alone with you to the Grand Canyon or Greenland or some other stunning spot; the privilege will see that kid through many hard times.'…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Man Walks Out on Stage as Storm Rolls —On Stage as Storm Rolls by Garrison Keillor


(April 11, 2024)
I did my solo stand-up act in Ohio last week and in the midst of a story, the auditorium shook with a blast of thunder. Another roll of thunder. And I started singing, 'How Great Thou Art,' with the line, 'I see the stars, I hear the tolling thunder'...
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Music • Nature • Optimal Aging


My Plan for Today and April and May by Garrison Keillor


(March 21, 2024)
People love people who have good stories and there is no good story without trouble so get into trouble while you're still young and have time to climb out of the ditch…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Humor • Inspiration • Memories • Optimal Aging


Mature Man Available for Speaking, Easy Terms by Garrison Keillor


(March 14, 2024)
I am one of America's few remaining octogenarian stand-up comics, still able to stand for up to two hours, even three, and in the current comedy crop, I am a classicist…
Topics: Communication • Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wisdom


Flaoting Down the Canyon Through the Rapids by Garrison Keillor


(February 29, 2024)
I accept change, even some changes that pain me. In that respect, life is not unlike rafting through fhe Grand Canyon with calm pools between the boiling rapids…
Topics: Change • Character, Integrity • Choices and Decision Making • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Humor • Learning • Lifestyle, General • Optimal Aging • Trends


Look Around, I Get the Drift by Garrison Keillor


(December 14, 2023)
I still feel loved. I tried to feel abandoned so I could be an important poet but it didn't work. LAUGHTER…
Topics: Attitudes • Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Writing


Epictetus on Fifth Avenue, a Week Ago by Garrison Keillor


(November 30, 2023)
Epictetus said the way to happiness is to not worry about things beyond your power to control, which includes this taxi ride, totalitarianism, the cost of tickets to 'Tannhäuser,' and other things that begin with T…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Coping • Humor • Optimal Aging • Stress • Wisdom


Thank Goodness for Minnesota by Garrison Keillor


(November 23, 2023)
To be a leading producer of stupid misshapen birds who panic easily is not a distinction to be craved, but Somebody Has To Do The Work, and so Minnesota produces a billion turkeys a year so that America can feel gratitude…
Topics: Holidays • Holiday Season • Humor • Lifestyle, General • Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving


'Stand Up for Yourself' I Keep Thinking to Myself by Garrison Keillor


(November 16, 2023)
I'm not a newcomer to this world and I have never met a person with such exquisitely fine taste in the coffee realm. Wine, yes. Coffee, no.
Topics: Attitudes • Lifestyle, General • Relationships


Visitng Home After a Long Time Away by Garrison Keillor


(October 12, 2023)
Flattery is offensive to a Minnesotan. My mother recoiled if someone praised her cooking and I do the same when someone praises a book I wrote…
Topics: Attitudes • Beliefs • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Memories • Relationships • Travel


All I Know is What She Tells Me by Garrison Keillor


(September 28, 2023)
I get the news from my wife, who sits reading the paper across the breakfast table from me and tells me what I need to know, ignoring much of page 1…
Topics: Humor • News • Politics • Relationships • Writing


Sing On, Dance On, Good Eye, Ain't You Happy by Garrison Keillor


(September 21, 2023)
I may be the only person in the ballpark who remembers the fall day in 1969 when Rod Carew got on base with a double, took a big lead, stole third, and the fans sat transfixed in silence, knowing he might do it, wishing he'd do it, and then…
Topics: Baseball • History • Memories • Religion • Travel


The Gift of Helen Story, Remembered by Garrison Keillor


(September 14, 2023)
Somehow the ridiculous missteps of my life lead to this day in September, the back-to-school month, and in my heart I am still walking into the old high school, anxious to do well in Lyle Bradley's biology and Helen Story's English class…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Contemplation, Insight • Coping • Education • Humor • Learning • Memories • Optimal Aging • Tribute, Testimony


As I Keep Telling Myself, Life is Good by Garrison Keillor


(September 7, 2023)
It dawns on you, watching this, that what makes a society a civilized society is the existence of rescuers who will put themselves at risk in service to others…
Topics: Character, Integrity • Civility • Compassion • Contentment, Satsifaction • Courage • Inspiration • News • Optimal Aging • Risk • Service


The Lucky Man Hits the Road, My Gosh by Garrison Keillor


(August 10, 2023)
I dread the prospect of retirement, which in so many cases leads to disintegration and dementia. I intend to go on performing until I reach the age of 98, beating my mother by one year…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Health Care • Optimal Aging • Retirement • Travel • Wellness


Enough About Them, This is About Me by Garrison Keillor


(August 3, 2023)
I turn 81 in a few days and I intend to spend my remaining time looking at beautiful things, starting with my wife, and enjoying music and comedy and theater and the writing of writers who make me happy.…
Topics: Beliefs • Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • Change • Contemplation, Insight • Optimal Aging • Relationships


The Art of Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor


(July 27, 2023)
The pleasure of moving is the excavation of the past. I open a box and here's a photo of my fifth-grade class, the eager neatly-combed-and-dressed boy with glasses is me. I am still that eager boy, heavier but anxious to do well…
Topics: Change • Contemplation, Insight • Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging


Stepping into My Story by Richard Bergstrom


(July 21, 2023)
Taking time to reconsider my life story. Part two of Richard and Leona's personal stories as examples of the Gift of Life Review…
Topics: Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Faith • Grace • Memories • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Canada is Burning, But We're Doing Okay by Garrison Keillor


(July 13, 2023)
And so I set aside the past and retreat into the present and take pleasure in the morning coffee, the granola with berries, the appearance of She Whom I Love . . . there is serenity to be found and freedom from the vast treasury of available anxiety.
Topics: Change • Circumstances, Life Events • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Disaster • News


A Lovely Lunch Last Week in New Haven by Garrison Keillor


(June 22, 2023)
At lunch with a pregnant woman, you talk about ordinary life, family, summer, the food, the elation of the kids at the graduation we’d attended that morning and the pride of their parents, and we never set foot in politics at all…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Communication • Contentment, Satsifaction • Optimal Aging • Relationships


Top Ten Things You Won't Hear at Commencement by James N. Watkins


(June 9, 2023)
Despite all the advice, most commencement speakers miss the mark. Jim tells us what every graduate really need to hear…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Education • Wisdom


O Fabulous Day! Callooh! Callay! by Garrison Keillor


(June 1, 2023)
Stupidity has given me sympathy for other knuckleheads and also admiration for the beautiful competence of American medicine, which has extended my life dramatically, making it possible for me to beat myself up for my mistakes and not just take up space.
Topics: Attitudes • Circumstances, Life Events • Civility • Current Events, News • Humor • News • Optimal Aging • Politics • Relationships


Manhattan Man Living in the Past by Garrison Keillor


(May 25, 2023)
What's on my mind is family history, the seven children of James Keillor and Dora Powell, and in all of Manhattan there's not a single soul who has the slightest interest, nor should there be…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Contemplation, Insight • Faith • Family • Memories • Optimal Aging


What We Don't Know We Must Invent by Garrison Keillor


(May 18, 2023)
We were a happy family that kept many secrets and how does one pry open those locked doors?…
Topics: Family • Humor • Memories


The Beauty of Being a Guy by Garrison Keillor


(May 4, 2023)
This week of struggling with the knee brace has changed my life forever. I used to want to be hip and cool and now I just want to be capable. . . . So this week I discovered I can be a guy.…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Coping • Gratitute • Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wellness


A Walk in the Park in April by Garrison Keillor


(April 20, 2023)
It strikes me as sad, walking around Central Park on a paradise spring day, the cherry trees in full blossom . . . so much public happiness, to think of the cloud of bitterness over this generous country…
Topics: Communication • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Gratitute • Leisure • Nature • Politics • Seasons • Social Issues • Social Media • Social Movements


The Longer You Live the Better It Gets by Garrison Keillor


(March 23, 2023)
Mortality is what makes the gifts enormous…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Gratitute • Inspiration • Optimal Aging • Relationships


The Old Man's Winter Weekend by Garrison Keillor


(March 9, 2023)
Omaha is a well-kept city with a handsome classic downtown and I ate lunch in a downtown café a few tables away from a long table with six middle-aged guys around it and I loved listening to them talk…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Memories • Travel


Burying Your One Great Life by Leona Bergstrom


(February 11, 2023)
A scene in the December 2022 movie "Puss in Boots: Last Wish" captures how many Boomers feel as they transition into retirement. Many feel they are burying their identity—their essence—their purpose…
Topics: Change • Choices and Decision Making • Lifestyle, General • Media • Movies • Optimal Aging • Planning • Retirement


Even Old People Need to Explore New Realams by Garrison Keillor


(February 10, 2023)
I do not have a single friend who was looking forward to hearing Taylor Swift and who was furious at Ticketmaster for messing up her tour and watched carefully the congressional hearings into the whole Swiftian crisis. Nobody.…
Topics: Attitudes • Change • Choices and Decision Making • Learning • Optimal Aging • Relationships


The Beauty of a Bitterly Cold Sunday Morning, 8 AM by Garrison Keillor


(February 2, 2023)
The world is a mess but dread gets us nowhere so cheer up and then go do what you were put here to do…
Topics: Attitudes • Faith • Memories • Relationships • Religion • Wisdom


Squeezing Good Out of Bad by James N. Watkins


(January 20, 2023)
Yikes! It’s hard to believe that Squeezing Good Out of Bad is sixteen years old…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Choices and Decision Making • Circumstances, Life Events • Coping • Humor • Optimal Aging


A Hike to Times Square and Back by Garrison Keillor


(January 6, 2023)
And then it comes back to me, the memory of Times Square in 1953, I was eleven, on a trip with my father…
Topics: Christmas • Family • Holidays • Holiday Season • Love • Memories • Relationships


Sick in Hotel Room, Thinking Back by Garrison Keillor


(December 8, 2022)
This would've been a good story for the college kids to hear but of course they have no interest in listening to an old man talk about the 20th century. To them, 1964 is next door to 1864 and the Civil War…
Topics: Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • History • Memories • Relationships


Disillusioned by Rchard and Leona Bergstrom /ReIgnite


(November 18, 2022)
The Rolling Stones song, 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' seems like an essential qualifier to the title, 'What Retirees Want.' An excerpt from the soon-to-be-released book: EMERGING
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Optimal Aging • Planning • Retirement • Social Issues


A Word to the Wise as Winter Approaches by Garrison Keillor


(October 20, 2022)
Cold weather stimulates the brain because survival is involved and the body wants to survive and when challenged it will do what is necessary, even think clearly…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Change • Optimal Aging • Seasons


October is Coming, Prepare to Be Bold by Garrison Keillor


(September 23, 2022)
October is a month that encourages courage. The languors of summer are finally dispersed and the chill of reality in the air tells you to get to business…
Topics: Choices and Decision Making • Circumstances, Life Events • Opportunity • Seasons


What if It Does and They Don't? by Garrison Keillor


(September 15, 2022)
Thoughts of rising sea levels, politics, and an ode to the pig whose mitral valve saved my life…
Topics: Attitudes • Beliefs • Change • Health Care • Nature • Politics • Science & Technology • Social Issues


Into the Tunnel, Thinking in the Dark by Garrison Keillor


(September 2, 2022)
The technician said through a speaker, “How are you doing? Not much longer.” Actually, I wished it could be longer…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Health Care • Memories • Optimal Aging • Wellness


Life Comes in Focus as the Day Approaches by Garrison Keillor


(August 26, 2022)
Open-heart surgery didn’t exist when I was a kid; . . . the fact that they imagine a guy of eighty deserves a battery jump is very inspiring…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Health Care • Hopes & Dreams • Opportunity • Optimal Aging • Science & Technology • Wellness


Drama is Life Trying to Get Our Attention by Garrison Keillor


(August 12, 2022)
Carrying anger in your heart is misery in a bottle. . . thoughts on life as an old man prepares for open heart surgery…
Topics: Attitudes • Contemplation, Insight • Forgive, Forgiveness • Health Care • Hopes & Dreams • Learning • Optimal Aging • Wellness


A Big Event and Then a Major Accouncement by Garrison Keillor


(August 4, 2022)
I feel I should go to Iowa this week and meet the donor of the heart valve I'm about to get and express my gratitude…
Topics: Gratitute • Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wellness


Listen to the Lonesome Whistle Blow, etc. by Garrison Keillor


(July 29, 2022)
I am in the process of packing up and leaving Minnesota where I’ve lived for most of eighty years, because…
Topics: Change • Friends & Neighbnors • Humor • Memories


The Author Disembarks Almost by Garrison Keillor


(July 22, 2022)
Thoughts of summer—and life—triggered by a New York subway mishap…
Topics: Attitudes • Change • Choices and Decision Making • Contemplation, Insight • Nature


Just One More Morning of an Old Man by Garrison Keillor


(April 7, 2022)
Thoughts on life from the right field bleachers…
Topics: Baseball • Change • Choices and Decision Making • Circumstances, Life Events • Contentment, Satsifaction • Optimal Aging


What Can We Learn from the Madness of March 2022? by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(March 31, 2022)
It's been a crazy couple of years, right?
Topics: Coping • COVID-19 • Crisis • Faith • History • Hopes & Dreams • Sports


Finding Us Faithhful by Richard Bergstrom


(March 11, 2022)
Reflecting on a season of change…
Topics: Change • Contentment, Satsifaction • Coping • Dying and Death • Faith • Family • Grace • Housing • Inspiration


What You Won't Read in the Paper, Except Now by Garrison Keillor


(March 3, 2022)
Say what you will, life is good…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Inspiration • Memories


Betwixt and Between by Leona Bergstrom


(February 19, 2022)
Being resilient when life throws you a curve…
Topics: Change • Character, Integrity • Circumstances, Life Events • Coping • Courage • COVID-19 • Hopes & Dreams


Happy 70th Birthday to Me! by James N. Watkins


(February 18, 2022)
I prefer to think of it as 30 plus 40 years of experience…
Topics: Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging


The Agony and the Ecstasy of Downsizing by Leona Bergstrom


(February 12, 2022)
I know I must let go of stuff, let go of who I once was and the pursuits I once fought for, but…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Change • Circumstances, Life Events • Coping • Housing • Lifestyle, General • Memories • Optimal Aging • Values


Thoughts About Toothpaste and Patriotism by Garrison Keillor


(February 11, 2022)
I am at an age when one is grateful for every day…
Topics: Comfort & Consolation • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Friends & Neighbnors • Humor • Patriotism


A Cactus' Lesson by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(January 28, 2022)
It's never too late to grow and reach…
Topics: Birthdays & Annivesaries • Faith • Learning • Metaphors, Life Lessons • Nature • Optimal Aging • Relationships


The Changing Seasons compiled by Leona Bergstrom


(October 16, 2021)
Words to contemplate as we move into Autumn…
Topics: Change • Circumstances, Life Events • Nature • Seasons • Wisdom


When Life's Interruptions Become Opportunities by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(April 16, 2021)
Unforeseen a year ago when COVID struck, I would never have guessed what lay ahead…
Topics: Change • Coping • COVID-19 • Crisis • Faith • Grace • Innovation, Invention, Creativity • Opportunity


Thanks for Nothing! by James N. Watkins


(November 25, 2020)
When things seem they cannot be more bleak, there is reason for hope…
Topics: Bible • Circumstances, Life Events • Coping • COVID-19 • Faith • God • Gratitute • Holidays • Holiday Season • Hopes & Dreams • Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving


Commencement 2020 by James N. Watkins


(May 22, 2020)
The top ten things you won't hear at commencement…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Choices and Decision Making • COVID-19 • Current Events, News • Education • Learning • Wisdom


What's Your Vantage Point? by Bill Nichols


(May 17, 2020)
Viewing life experiences through the eyes of an artist…
Topics: Arts & Entertainment • Beliefs • Character, Integrity • God • Hopes & Dreams • Metaphors, Life Lessons • Planning


Wasting Time Kristin Wong


(March 4, 2020)
The biggest wastes of time we regret when we get older…
Topics: Discipline • Relationships • Values


50 Praises Between Bed and Bathroom by James N. Watkins


(November 23, 2019)
What are you thankful for?
Topics: Holidays • Holiday Season • Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving


Mortal Remains by Thomas Lynch / submitted by Stu Johnson


(September 29, 2019)
The dead are no longer welcome at their own funerals…
Topics: Change • Choices and Decision Making • Dying and Death • Trends • Tribute, Testimony


Life Flows On by Ken Potts


(January 21, 2019)
How different people deal with life's flow…
Topics: Choices and Decision Making • Coping • Courage • Fears, Concerns • Trouble • Trust


I'll Fly Away by Bill Nichols


(November 24, 2018)
Thoughts stirred by a morning walk…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Dying and Death • Memories • Metaphors, Life Lessons • Nature