I like to spend my lunch hour, and about four dollars, at the McDonald's across the street from Erlanger. I usually bring along the New York Times or a magazine. I get funny looks from the counterfolk, but that's all right. Today, along with my Crispy Chicken Sandwich, I enjoyed a short story by Garrison Keillor in the July issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Sadly, it isn't online yet, so I'll excerpt a portion, where he writes of things worth being happy about.
"Fresh melon from a roadside stand. An endive and pear and blue cheese salad. A rousing Broadway musical with some classy comic turns and a winsome leading lady and a terrific tap routine in Act II and a grand finale with the whole ensemble dancing with faces aglow and hands in the air. A good medicinal martini with a fellow martinist. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five. A fine Episcopal mass in a modest and sunny sanctuary with a big banner (LOVE IS TRIUMPHANT) hanging in back and the organist plays quietly and the choir hangs together on the anthem and the homily is concise and you confess your sins and feel them lifted from your back and you commune with the Lord and come away from His Table filled with grace and walk out into the sunny world feeling that you have a fresh chance at life. And the snooze during the reading of the Scriptures is good too."
Posted by mesh at June 23, 2003 02:57 PM | TrackBack"when the dog bites, when the bee stings...
i think of all of my favorite things...
and then i dont feel so baaaaad."
this is all just making me feel a bit too good.
Posted by: ben at June 24, 2003 04:59 PM