It's not necessary to always be learning and a museum needs to be entertaining too but an honest depiction is necessary so that learning is an option. The problem with nostalgia is we forget all the bad stuff we wanted to leave behind in the first place, all the stuff that made us move on. But maybe we've moved too far and too quickly. Country folk have forever been telling us city folk that. It's been tinkering along here in Shamrock, Texas just fine.
Some folk are just too busy checking their watches to notice.
Steinbeck 's been going on about in all those long passages I've been tacking onto these dispatches. Something's missing in that analysis. If me jus' bein' glad to be here an' bein thankful for people that's kind and generous, if that's enough why, I'll say that kinda grace. But I ain't a preacher no more. An' get in a word about us goin' to California.