[Kip
Currier: Interesting insights from Garrison Keillor about taking a
long-view of life, as well as voicing a carpe diem gratitude--embodied in the
perfect imperfections of an heirloom tomato.
[Aside: Great quote by The Splendid Table host Lynne Rosetto
Kasper, after LeHoullier notes that tomatoes are "very
perishable":
"But I think some of the best things in life have to be
fragile. We appreciate them more."]
Soonafter, I tried my first heirlooms from the incredible year-round open-air Freshfarm
DuPont Circle Market in Washington, D.C.: it was love at first bite.
A week ago I picked up these beauties in DuPont for a killer (Fair
Use-transformed!) Caprese Salad:
"It’s a privilege to know people over the course of a lifetime
and to reconnoiter and hear about the ordinary goodness of life. By 75, some of
our class have gotten whacked hard. And the casualty rate does keep climbing.
And yet life is good. These people are America as I know it. Family, work, a
sense of humor, gratitude to God for our daily bread and loyalty to the tribe.
If the gentleman stands in the bow and fires his peashooter at the storm, if he
appoints a gorilla as head of communications, if he tweets that henceforth no
transcendentalist shall be allowed in the armed forces, nonetheless life goes
on.
He fulfills an important role of celebs: giving millions of people the chance
to feel superior to him. The gloomy face and the antique adolescent hair, the
mannequin wife and the clueless children of privilege, the sheer pointlessness
of flying around in a 747 to say inane things to crowds of people — it’s cheap
entertainment for us, and in the end it simply doesn’t matter."
