I Think All Those People I Did

Thanks To The Interstate Highway System, It Is Now Possible To Travel Across The Country From Coast To Coast Without Seeing Anything.

The Storytelling Tradition That You Bring From The South, I Don't Know Where It Arose, But It's Still There. You Can't Go To The Feed Store, Or The Country Courthouse Without Running Into Storytellers.

To Read The Papers And To Listen To The News... One Would Think The Country Is In Terrible Trouble. You Do Not Get That Impression When You Travel The Back Roads And The Small Towns Do Care About Their Country And Wish It Well.

Now That I Look Back On It, Having Retired From Being A Reporter, It Was Kind Of Romantic. It Was A Wonderful Way To Live One's Life, Just As I Imagined It Would Be When I Was 6 Or 7.

I Think I'd Have Done Better If I Had Been A Little More Relaxed-if I Had Not Pressed Quite So Hard, If I'd Not Lost Quite So Much Sleep.