[at-l] Fw: Oatmeal OoN 4.11.04

[sjbuchanan at adelphia.net (Suzie)]

Oatmeal OoN 4.11.04Arrived in my email this morning:


"What will come of all this on Nov. 3? Some will pick up the morning paper and save it for a souvenir, and the others will wrap up the garbage in it.

"What will reconcile us is what has always restored our sanity, and that is the plain pleasures of the physical world, our common love of coffee, the world of apples, the movement of birds, the lives of dogs, the touch of skin. . . .


"Having worked ourselves into a fever over the future of Western civilization, we will now begin enjoying our oatmeal again, with raisins, chopped apricots and honey from bees that grazed in meadows of clover. The beauty of engagement is disengagement. You simply put on your jacket and walk out the door and find good health. There is no fever that a 10-mile hike can't cure." -- Garrison Keillor, writer and recovering political partisan, 2004