I love my wife so much…

I am listening to a tragic story “The Children’s Blizzard” by David Laskin on my Palm T3 (I record Dick Estelle, the Radio Reader, off the internet so I can listen in my car).

Anyway, in an aside about the journals of the imigrants to America the author writes:

It was the logistics of the journeys that the imigrants wrote about in greatest detail. The emotions they either took for granted or were too shy to record, especially the Norwegians who were famous for their reserve.

There is a Norwegian joke about an old farmer who in the grip of powerful emotion once confessed to his best friend “I love my wife so much I almost told her”.