2005年NPR美国国家公共电台十二月-Finding Beauty, and Fun, in Every Day（在线收听） |
| It's Friday, and once again we bring you StoryCorps, the oral history project travelling the country that gives family and friends the chance to ask one another about their lives. Copies of the conversations go to the Library of Congress and excerpts are heard here on Morning Edition. Today, an interview from Missoula, Montana. Here are close friends and business partners Anne Garde and Catherine Combs. "We are house painters, 20 years of working together." "We are like the Matt & Jeff of the painting world. I'm a big girl and you are just a little sleepless thing. When we have to get up to paint something high in stairwell, I put one leg of the ladder on the stairs and I put the other one on my knee and then I say, 'It's OK, Anne, you can trust me, come on, climb up here. ' And she always climbs up here." "But I usually I'm going 'why did I let you talk me into this?'" --Giggling--- "You know sometimes on the job you actually call me 'the Queen of the Inconsequential', because I'm always there looking at the little part that's underneath the cabinet and 'How come I can't get a straight line there', you know?" "And I prefer to get a little piece of tape and put it down there that says, 'what are you looking down here for anyway? ' Yeah, We love to play the 'Name that Tune' game." "That's right. That's one thing that we can do on the job while we're working." "Ok, Catherine, name this tune 'M-M-M---'." "Venus in blue jeans..." "You are right. I can name that in three notes." "We have all kinds of ways of making our bad day at work be fun." "We share an eccentricity and a certain verve for a life and we respect the things in each other. You are also one of the people with the most verve and love of life that I've ever met, I mean you love life so much you can hardly bring yourself to go to sleep at night because you'll miss living some of it." "Yeah, yeah, sometimes I just go out of my little porch and I look out, there's the trees and the sky and beautiful mountains and I think, 'I'm alive, and it, you know, this little joy comes, you know, and then it just goes, you need go to work and need do your thing, but you just have to remember that , it's like, hey, you could be dead.' You know, you could not be here, you know, not being around for this beautiful world." "Yeah." Anne Garde and Catherine Combs, at a StoryCorps booth in Missoula, Montana. To schedule your interview or listen to more stories. It's at NPR. org. StoryCorps is made possible by a grant from Saturn. |
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