Happy Warrior

I WAS reading Time magazine the other week. Don’t all scoff at once: It was a long flight and the audio-video entertainment had packed up. More specifically, I was reading an interview with Willie Nelson. I love the old coot, got a bunch of his albums, enjoy his station on the XM radio dial, and find him very interesting when he’s talking about music. But, of course, Time wasn’t interviewing him about music but in his capacity as one of the great thinkers of the age. He recently published The Tao of Willie, “a book covering Nelsonian philosophy,” and Time wanted to know what “the big lesson” was. You know, the secret of life and all that jazz. Here’s Mr. Nelson’s answer in full:

“I’ve always been the kind of guy that looks for the easy way, and it seems to me the easiest way to get through life is just to accept it and live in the moment.”

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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human-rights activist.

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I WAS reading Time magazine the other week. Don’t all scoff at once: It was a long flight and the audio-video entertainment had packed up. More specifically, I was reading an interview with Willie Nelson. I love the old coot, got a bunch of his albums, enjoy his station on the XM radio dial, and find him very interesting when he’s talking about music. But, of course, Time wasn’t interviewing him about music but in his capacity as one of the great thinkers of the age. He recently published The Tao of Willie, “a book covering Nelsonian philosophy,” and Time wanted to know what “the big lesson” was. You know, the secret of life and all that jazz. Here’s Mr. Nelson’s answer in full:

“I’ve always been the kind of guy that looks for the easy way, and it seems to me the easiest way to get through life is just to accept it and live in the moment.”