A Parent's Prayer | The Old Scout | A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, from American Public Media

A Parent's Prayer The Old Scout A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, from American Public Media

A perfect shiny summer day and a crowd of jittery children in clusters on the corner, about to board a yellow bus, their backpacks in a pile, their mothers giving urgent last-minute reassurances, and I stop and stare at this Large Life Event. Kids from nice homes being abandoned by their mothers in broad daylight and sent off to summer camp and God Knows What...