[Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Yankee or Dixie

[Robert Skinner]

Pure poetry, Slim.  Thanks!  /Robert

Steven Alm wrote:
> 
> Elle wrote, "I think the mobility of the population tends to skew
> the results....how many of us still live close to
> where we started??"
> 
> I was born just a few hours drive from Minneapolis on an Indian reservation
> in South Dakota.  I've lived all over, but the tri-state area of the Dakotas
> and MN is so very much home.  I can tell you every exit on Interstate 94
> from Gary, IN to Glendive, MT.  And Interstate 35 from Kansas City up to
> Duluth.  But I'll always consider Mankato, MN home (hour and a half drive
> south of Minneapolis.)
> 
> Upon my demise, I wish to have my ashes scattered on the waters of the
> Minnesota River in Mankato.  From there I will travel downstream to join the
> Mississippi River just blocks from where I now live.  I will then travel
> down to St. Louis where I have family, friends and gigs.  Then it's on to
> NOLA where my roots of music lie.  Then out to the gulf and around the
> globe.  I am the midwest.  I am the world.
> 
> Thanks for asking, Elle, how 'bout you?
> 
> Slim