From Garrison Keillor’s weekly essay: “A walk in the park on a historic day” The young are passionate about the environment and climate change. There are millions of people who cannot imagine modifying their sumptuous lifestyle in the interest of …
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I received a note this morning from a dear friend wondering if I shared the same sense of shock at the election of Donald Trump as she and her husband felt. She went on to say that she believes that …
I had the good fortune to take in “An Evening with Garrison Keillor” last night. As one might expect, the event is an incredibly funny, charming, and wide-ranging monologue, based largely on stories, some true, others fictitious—all woven artfully together …
Garrison Keillor’s article in today’s Washington Post on Trump’s victory is amusing, to be sure, though it’s hard to know what to do with his main message, i.e., it’s the Republican’s baby now; progressives can sit back and catch up on …
Every couple of weeks there is something in The Writer’s Almanac that seems particularly relevant to the issues we discuss here at 2GreenEnergy. Perhaps it’s the anniversary of a scientific discovery that changed the way we understand energy, or the …
In the four-and-a-half years I’ve been writing these posts, I don’t think I’ve referred to Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” even once. Shame on me. I hope readers will take a few minutes and listen to last night’s performance …
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I just read the Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and noted that it’s the birthday of May Swenson, an author of the 20th Century who once wrote to a friend, “Not to need illusion—to dare to see and say how things really …
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According to The Writers Almanac, “On this date in 1927, physicist Werner Heisenberg first described his Uncertainty Principle in a letter. In a nutshell, the Uncertainty Principle states that the more precisely we can determine a particle’s momentum, the less …
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Those who have taken my recommendation and start every morning with Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac know that four years ago today, on Arthur C. Clarke’s 90th birthday, he: … recorded a video in which he says goodbye to his friends …
I just came across two chance references to the same thing in the last couple of days: 1) In his memoir, Christopher Hitchens writes that his father said of World War II, “It was the only time in my life …
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