In Texas, when you drive to a “nearby” town for an event, it’s a 4-hour round-trip adventure on the open road. Fortunately, spring here is full of epic beauty. (Thank you, Ladybird Johnson, for your wildflowers.) So the drives are worth it and feel, in the end, more like a full meditation session than a single deep breath. Goodness knows we need all the help we can get these days…
Haiku 21, 2026
I’m in a painting:
Open road and open sky,
impressionist speed
The sky is just amazing right now – we’re catching the edge of some rain system action, and the sun is peekabooing with the clouds. One of the funnier things about living in a big state – that “close” things are so very relative…