O what a beautiful evening

O what a beautiful evening

by Prairie Home Productions

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7:49 minutes

published 1 month ago

English

Copyright Prairie Home Productions

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we who come from a strict religious upbringing are at an advantage over you heathens, because even slight pleasure makes us dizzy, and actual joy blows our minds. A coal miner appreciates a field of tulips more than a florist does. I get a thrill every time my wife of 28 years casually puts her hand on my shoulder in wordless affection. And this is due to the fact that I didn't kiss a girl until I was 22 years old. I grew up sanctified brethren. I stared at girls. I fantasized. I sat near some girls,but our lips never met, and when they did, I burst into verse. I get pleasure from words, which is surely due to coming from taciturned people. So when I happen upon a seed catalog and look through the beans, the names of beans, scarlet runner, provider, contender, gold rush, blue lake, tenderet green, and the corn, the names, bodacious, Ambrosia Hybrid, Sugar Bonds, Abundance, and the Tomatoes, Early Girl, Better Boy, Beefsteak, Sweetie, Big Boy, Sunsets, red horizon, Jubilee, Juliet WORK_OF_ART, Moneymaker, Aunt Ruby's, Boy, Oh Boy, Nebraska Wedding ORG, Calypso, Abe Lincoln. It's a garden of poetry.Happiness happened to me a few days ago on a cruise aboard the Queen Mary, which was very relaxing, but relaxation makes me uneasy. And I was looking forward to return to New York, and then we got gussied up one night, my wife in a sparkly gown, eye on a tux and red bowtie, and after dinner, around 10.30, we proceeded to the grand ballroom where a big band was playing. The dance floor is the size of a volleyball court, big enough for terrific dance couples to show their stuff. And we sat and observed them.Everyone was decked out in their absolute snazziest outfit, and a couple dozen Freds and gingers were doing long glides and twirls, shaking to the samba and cha-cha. Some hot jazz numbers, waltzes, fox trots. It was a 40s movie come to life. And the outfits were fascinating.Gay male couples and sequined jackets, silvery gowns on slender ladies, some scots in kilts, glitter and gaudiness, everywhere you look, party hats with feathers, and the crowd grew and grew hundreds of people in the room, and the dance floor got so crowded that we amateurs could step in, the traffic jam, making no fancy dancing possible. We were just a mob swaying, and as the music got hotter, the crowd got crazier. It was a big mosh pit, and the band played dancing in the street as young women leaped around, and then YMCA ORG with arms in the air.It was thrilling being in a mass of swaying, throbbing humanity. Hundreds of mature people in a state of delight, And I felt that I, the tall, somber man, brought up to believe that dancing is sinful was the most delirious person on the floor. My sweetie, who an hour before had said not to ask her to dance was dancing. We were beside ourselves. All the dire thoughts about climate change, wars and war crimes, the future of democracy, were momentarily forgotten. I imagine the same thing happened back in 1941 after Pearl Harbor, and I'll bet my mother-in-law, Oral, a passionate dancer, was at a Manhattan ballroom that night, having a big time.The band kicked, It's All Right WORK_OF_ART, and we shouted the chorus, and then you can't hurry love as it got later and later. And I saw her standing there with everyone singing the falsetto notes, elderly CEO types, distinguished matrons, responsible liberals, all suddenly adolescent with so much joy as the band played the perfect song. You are the dancing queen, young and sweet only 17,feel the beat from the tambourine. And we counted down to midnight, and I kissed my beloved, and we sang, O Lanzine, and there it was, a thousand dignified yanks and Brits transfigured into playful children while sailing the Atlantic LOC, a glorious feeling. Nothing has changed, really,except that we discover that we have the capacity for giddy pleasure in a mob of people who feel exactly the same. There are troubles ahead and sadness and confusion, but what I wish for you are moments of wild leaping happiness like that night on the ship. If tomatoes can be jubilant and sweet corn bodacious, then so can we be. So let's do it for each other. Sugar buns. Want to see Garrison PERSON in person? There are plenty of

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