A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

To: Tom Mitchell
June 21 the longest day of summer-Also Tom Mitchells 41st B-day all day. Happy Birthday Tom! love Lana & kids
—Lana Mitchell

To: Christopher Ma
Happy 11th Anniversary, Babe. Now that it's legal in CA, will you marry me?
—James Boline

To: Josh Chin
Greetings from The Netherlands! Hope you had a nice birthday this week. Have fun and enjoy this week's show in your City of Angels. We'll tune in to KPCC as usual!
—Wouter, Rosana, Junior and Seth Haffmans

To: Mari
Happy Anniversary. How 10 years have flown! I'm looking forward to many more with you as my home companion.
—Hani Zubi

To: Sandi Duncan
Yup, Los Angeles has been good to you. You beat the cancer and we all love you. Happy Birthday, kid.
—Mary Eileen O'Donnell

To: Pastor Richard and Renella Busk
Blessed fiftieth anniversary June 7 from Ruthie, Bob, Colleen, Jessica, Bronson, Bobby, Sara, Scott, James, Zachary, Kristina, and Lillie!
—Ruthie Agman

To: Belinda Poropudas
We miss you in Helsinki its no Duluth See you soon and thats the truth
—Clem Henriksen

To: Adelaide Hemmes
Happy birthday! God grant you many years!
—John & Linda Griffith

To: Carly Jackson
Happy Birthday Nismo. Here is to you on your birthday and new job. Birmingham is glad to have you back and I am so proud of you.
—J.R. Kamra

To: Jim & Ingred Bierman
Wishing you a happy 52nd Anniversary - a journey beginning in a canoe on Minnesota's Northern Lakes and continuing at the Greek in Southern California.
—Joan Bierman

To: Mary
Greetings from the Sons of Norway
—Leo Bell

To: Lisette
Love you. Five continuous years with Garrison in LA. Here's to twenty more. Sure hope he lives that long.
—Henry Gittler

To: Nancy Lou
Happy Birthday Mom! You look great and younger than ever. I hope your next 62 years are as exciting as the last were!
—Rosemary Linares

To: Lindsay and Eli
Dear Lindsay and Eli, in case you are so overwhelmed that it is hard to hear our wedding readings to you, I am hoping that when you tune in to the Prairie Home Companion and will be able listen, we are all so incredibly happy that you are getting married! much love Dad, Lea and the Yaj The reading is as follows: A truth about relationships is revealed in Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s book The Runaway Bunny. As many of you know the book is a conversation between a mother rabbit and one of her bunnies who wants to run away. The bunny tells his mother “I am running away….If you run after me, I will become a fish in a trout stream and I will swim away from you…” to which his mother responds that no matter how far he wants to go, no matter how well he wants to hide, his mother will be there: “if you become a bird and fly away from me,” says his mother, “I will be a tree that you come home to….if you become a crocus in a hidden garden…I will be a gardener and I will find you…… if you become a rock on the mountain high above me I will be a mountain climber, and I will climb to where you are.” In our closest relationships we need to give each other the freedom to be ourselves by holding space for each other’s evolution safely in our hearts at the same time as we maintain our deepest, closest connection. Our partner can hide, change and explore, always knowing that we will be there. It is this balance between communion and autonomy, between adventure and intimacy, held in a profoundly mutual and loving space that we wish for Lindsay and Eli throughout their lives together
—Emanuel Pariser

To: Abby, Amelia & Anthony
What happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas...We are escaping to enjoy "The Show" at the Greek Theatre. To our young adult children we left at home in Vegas, remember...Mom knows everything!
—Maria Henry

To: Keala
Keala, Happy Birthday #11. Hope you and your friends enjoy the Greek Theater show. Daddy O.
—Daddy' O Rusher

To: Danny Ott
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou beside me beneath the stars at The Greek. Happy Birthday Danny Darlin'! Love, Rubaiyat
—Robin Ott

To: Sam
I would have pie instead of ice cream any day to steal a few extra minutes with you! Thanks for the tickets
—Lynn Kessler

To: Gary Katz
Happy anniversary (nine years, two weeks) from your devoted wife, who is glad to have you back on the Left Coast after your NYC sojourn.
—Mary Lou Katz

To: Lisette
My darling wife I love you. I hope you hear this during our fifth show together in Los Angeles. Here's to thirty more years together.
—Henry Gittler

To: Ben
Happy 38th birthday, Happy 14th anniversary and Happy Father's Day... Hope you don't mind I used your Ebay account to bid on these tickets! They're your gift for all of the just-mentioned events. I love you!
—Chris Thorner

To: Carly Jackson
Big weekend! Birthday today and starting your new job in the new city on Monday (June 9th). Birmingham is happy to have you back and I am so proud of you. With love.
—J.R. Kamra

To: Jerry Horn
Happy Birthday to my husband of almost 18 years. We were here for the show last year on his birthday and he enjoyed it so much that he wanted to come back this year, especially since his favorite President would be there. Jerry is 8^2 or 4^3 or 2^6 years old and we will let the Catshup Advisory Board do the calculations. Love, Sue
—Susan Horn

To: Bruce
You taught me to "wait and sea" and it sure has been worth it. Only two more years and I'll be a college graduate!
—Sandy Gilman

To: Jim and Bonny Shkiele
Bonny, you can't let Jim retire! Who will the rats flip off?
—Karen and Gabe Beckers

To: Zack Parr
Congratulations Zack Parr on your high school graduation. Thanks for the weekly political updates about Bush-Cheney disasters, your Al Franken and Jon Stewart imitations and for telling me, each visit, what movie had the highest ticket sales over the weekend. I am a better psychotherapist from the privilege of working with you. The world is a better place because you're in it.
—Your therapist Susan Cook

To: Brad Bradford
Brad: Sorry you missed the show in Las Cruces. We know you get great reception near Rustler Park in the Chiricahuas. We applauded in your absence. Here is to many more nights in the Sky Islands a' listenin' to the show.
—winston Lewis

To: Maureen
Maureen is the greatest in the world. If a person could be perfect in every way she would be that person. I look forward to many many years of her close company no matter were in the world that might be.
—Paul Jones

To: Paul Jones
I beat you here! I love you and I hope that you have a great week, and hope to see you soon!
—Maureen Sheldon

To: Jennifer Grappone
Happy 39th Birthday to Jennifer Grappone from her loving husband of 12 years. This is her first 39th birthday and her first live PHC.
—Todd Grappone

To: emily faulkner
i was brought here as a fathers day gift by my daughter emily. i a so proud of her 'she will be graduating from akron u this summer with a a average throughout.so its not always true the child turns out like a parent!!!
—greg faulkner

To: Ashley
We had our first date here at PHC in Los Angeles and we celebrated our first anniversary here last year. Ashley, I now know I want to always be with you and be the father of your children if I could only have another chance!
—John Schroeder

To: Susan and Herman EIchman
Hope your summer in San Diego is getting off to a great start, Iowa..is well Iowa. give your little sis a congrats, I got a science teaching job within a week of graduating!
—Trudi Cadenbach

To: Virginia Tech Softball team
Hi from Bus Driver Larry! Hope you have a safe flight/bus ride home. Loved meeting you all. You all made watching softball fun and exciting. God Bless.
—larry skrdla