Wednesday, November 7, 2007

dangling conversations



OK... so the temperatures finally went below zero, and the plants froze. so what.

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Jerry, meanwhile, is in Hawaii for a month, having a great time so far, trying to get his head back together (i didn't realize it wasn't together), and i'll join him there next week. We talk on the cell phones every day. It's weird not having him here. Quiet.

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You would hate it if i talked about sports again, so i will refrain from dwelling on how cool it was to be at the Vikings-Chargers game this past Sunday, when the Vikings kicked butt and Adrian Peterson rushed for 296 yards, breaking the NFL record. You shoulda been there.

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And, even though I'm a political person, I've been avoiding political talk, not because you couldn't handle it (Tom!), but because i'm disgusted with national politics at the moment and am on a sort of political sabbatical, ignoring it all for a while. My sister Joan was talking to me the other night about this same thing. She is a Hillary fanatic, not sure why, but she is ready to look away from it all for now -- the attacks, the games, the media, all of it so hard to take, and, like Joan says, "you just end up with your heart broken anyway." It's not easy for a person like Joan to ignore presidential politics. I wonder how many other people are spacing it all out. It's not a good long-term strategy for those of who really care what happens to this world -- we don't dare end up with another bush. I'm not sure what or who it will take to bring us back.

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I've been doing a lot of theater lately. You gotta have some entertainment of some kind, and there hasn't been , for instance, a movie in months that i've wanted to see, and TV of course is a wasteland. And the theater choices in Minneapolis and St. Paul are abundant. The Twin Cities metro area is second only to New York City in U.S. live-theater, you know. There is no way to see everything you might want to see. "Is the theater really dead?" i'd say no.

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