Maintaining connections with other people is a major factor in optimal aging.  In this section, a number of contributors share their ideas and research on maintaining healthy relationships and establishing new ones. 


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Thank You for Reading This by Garrison Keillor


(My World   November 21, 2024)
So many blessings, and I haven't even mentioned friendship, sunsets, public transportation, Christian hymnody, baseball, hearing aids, the steady thoughtful leadership of my wife, trees, parks, rivers, the prairie, sonnets, Google, and cranberries…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Faith • Family • History • Holidays • Holiday Season • Humor • Relationships • Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving


A Father Speaks, After the Day Has Passed by Garrison Keillor


(My World   June 20, 2024)
The third Sunday of June is Father's Day and if you forgot, that's okay, we fathers don't expect to be celebrated, we only want to be forgiven…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Faith • Father's Day • History • Holidays • Humor • Relationships


Forget the Bunny, It's About Resurrection by Garrison Keillor


(Faith   March 28, 2024)
Easter is almost upon us when we Christians take a deep breath after Lent and relax and whoop it up a little. I mean, rising from the dead is no ordinary thing…
Topics: Dying and Death • Easter • Faith • Holidays • Religion


From the South Atlantic, Blessings! by Garrison Keillor


(My World   January 1, 2024)
The real education, however, is to discover how sweet Christmas is . . . standing at a ship's rail at night and looking up at Orion with your wife and daughter has more to do with Christmas than sleighs or chestnuts or even boughs of holly. Happy 2024!
Topics: Christmas • Contemplation, Insight • Future • Holidays • Holiday Season • Humor • Inspiration • Memories • New Year's


Once Again, the Star, the Shepherds by Garrison Keillor


(My World   December 25, 2023)
I do believe in the Christmas story, that God put his omnipotence on a shelf and became an infant child--it's in keeping with Christ telling his disciples, 'What you do for the least of these, ye do for me'…
Topics: Bible • Christmas • Faith • Holidays • Holiday Season • Hopes & Dreams • Inspiration • Memories • Optimal Aging


Our Plans for Christmas and Why by Garrison Keillor


(My World   December 21, 2023)
So our little trio is going to sea and my New Year’s resolution, as the ship heads back to New York, is to be grateful for life itself and love and friendship…
Topics: Change • Christmas • Generosity • Gratitute • Holidays • Holiday Season • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging • Relationships


A Miraculous Evening on Sixth Avenue by Garrison Keillor


(Arts & Entertainment   December 28, 2022)
A miracle occurred, not on 34th Street but on 50th. My love and I and our beautiful daughter took the C train down to see the enormous perfect tree at Rockefeller Center and to see the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes…
Topics: Arts & Entertainment • Christmas • Holidays • Holiday Season • Leisure • Music • Popular Culture • Relationships


Waiting for Christmas, Wishing for Snow by Garrison Keillor


(My World   December 22, 2022)
When snow falls in Manhattan, it’s magical, you’re in an O. Henry story about Christmas, and all the kids shut up in apartments come out with sheets of plastic or cardboard and go sliding on whatever slope is available…
Topics: Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • Holidays • Holiday Season • Lifestyle, General • Memories • Seasons • Weather


An Old Man Thinking at the Thanksgiving Table by Garrison Keillor


(My World   December 1, 2022)
I was the oldest person at our Thanksgiving table and I didn't say much because the kids were so lively and funny and why bring them down with a lecture about the wonders of old age, including the fact that every morning is an occasion of gratitude...
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Family • Holidays • Holiday Season • Memories • Optimal Aging • Relationships • Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving


Time to Head to the Graveyard and Pay Respects by Garrison Keillor


(My World   May 26, 2022)
This Memorial Day there is a sense of unease that calls for a rebirth of freedom to move around and live your life without fear.…
Topics: Dying and Death • History • Holidays • Memorial Day • Service • Tribute, Testimony • War


I Am Dreaming of a Light Christmas by Garrison Keillor


(My World   December 24, 2021)
Memories of Christmases past and the promise of lengthening days this side of the winter solstice…
Topics: Christmas • Family • Holidays • Holiday Season • Humor • Memories