A lovely lunch last week in New Haven

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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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. The naked ex-emperor is 77 and he is irrelevant to the life around us so it’s a pleasure to ignore him. By the time this boy gets around to studying American fascism, I will be gone from the world and unconcerned about the weaponization of falsehoods. But I want to leave something behind that this boy might cherish. I don’t expect him to read my novels. I only want him to know I existed and that I was capable of delight. E.g.––We live by kindness and grace,Good manners, books, an embrace,Good water, good light,A pencil to write,And a bright orange stub to erase,And yet I cannot forgetThose great bawdy stories, you bet,When we sat with good folksAnd told dirty jokesUntil everyone’s trousers were wet.God bless the child. I don’t know his name but I pray for him diligently day by day.Garrison KeillorJason Keillor, EngineerJason Keillor, Original Music

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0:41.9	I had lunch last week with a woman who was two months away from motherhood,
0:48.4	and it was sweet to watch her caressing this basket ball under her blouse, padding it, and
0:56.3	lifting it slightly, mindful of this modest freight, that will she knows very well, change,
1:05.6	her life, though thankfully she can't know how much. She and her man were married on my terrace
1:16.0	in New York five years ago, and when my wife and I sit out there, we sometimes think of them.
1:23.9	A Korean man, a Portuguese woman, who met in Paris, married by our friend Judge Ira Globerman,
1:33.9	who grew up Jewish in an Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn, so there was some diversity in going on.
1:42.8	Judge Globerman presided as a favor since they had arrived from France and needed to be a legal
1:50.7	couple before the visa ran out. They lived in Brooklyn at the time and then went up to a town
1:58.9	in Connecticut and bought a house. Her parents will come over from Portugal for the birth of this child.
2:08.2	It's easy for me to romanticize pregnancy since I've never gone through it personally,
2:14.5	except from the inside when I was in embryo. I never walked around with a tenant inside me,
2:23.6	so I look at her and I'm awestruck to think that we all come into the world exactly this way.
2:32.8	Our thoughtful mother, padding her abdomen as she eats like a farmhand.
2:39.6	When my grandma lay dying in 1964, she was faithfully tended by her daughters, not hospital staff.
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