"Oh Well"

We were patient all day. It was a sunny warm day that needed us outside. But we were in, and as often is the case, the keeper left early and returned late. We waited patiently for a sign of the car. But no, just the classical music and the refrigerator humming.
When she came back she was all abuzz about a convocation for women about radical transformation of the world, and how someone named Cokie Roberts talked about how the phrase "Oh well" is very useful in moving past impassable obstacles like "No you can't" and "It's forbidden by law to do that." Cokie's mother used "Oh well" a lot when she was the ambassador to the Vatican. And very shrewdly and charmingly, she creatively moved people and causes past the immoveable point. The keeper also told us that many of the founders of women's religious orders enabled the impossible in the same way, and they were canonized saints while the bishops with who often put up the obstacles were not canonized, and in some cases, not well remembered either.

It is dark, it is late. The wild animals are out. Oh well, we would like to go out anyway. We don't think she is listening.