Letters to the Editor
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Beautifully Put
Thank you Garrison. Beautifully put and on point about a tragic situation for us and for those who come after us.
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Mr. Keillor should come to Washington sometime
Mr. Keillor made a lot of good points about President Bush, but I wish he could have resisted the urge to spout a string of gratuitous cliches about federal workers. Depth and sensitivity are usually his hallmarks, so I doubt that he is hiding a familiarity with government work for the sake of making a point; no, he seems rather to be demonstrating the willful ignorance that is so common when the subject of federal workers comes up. Certainly there are wasteful programs and lazy workers to be found if one looks hard enough -- in government or the private sector. But to tar everyone here with the same brush is uncalled-for. I would like to see the reaction from Mr. Keillor and all the other cynics out there if the government stopped doing everything it does. Failing that, it would be nice if Mr. Keillor dropped the folksy, snide attitude and learned more about the system his taxes support.
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an inner life
As I read and thought about this article, which I found poignant, I thought about a conversation I had a year or so ago with a friend who is a psychotherapist, and, I would guess, a very good one. She said that when she first meets a client and the client asks, "What will I get from this?" her answer is, "You will get an inner life." I was surprised to hear this, since I thought that an inner life is something we all have. She told me that she knew it would be very hard for me to imagine, but to trust her when she said that a lot of people don't have one. They don't replay, imagine, doubt, recriminate, or wonder about what might have been. It truly is hard for those of us who spend much or most of out lives inside ourselves to imagine a life without these things. But the question how it is that our President can do all he has done and still remain so small has, I think, its answer in this startling fact: there are people who have no inner life, and he is one of them.