It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.
Garrison KeillorHa! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.
Garrison KeillorHonesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
Garrison KeillorSport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.
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