Saturday
It’s another warm August day in SE Texas. No clouds in the sky, no rain in the forecast.
And being a Saturday, the normal running around is required. Grocery stores, Post Office, and assorted other stops as required.
Here’s a video from a singer I discovered quite awhile back singing the song I first heard of his on the radio. This song always resonated with something deep in my soul… So much so that I’ve spent the last decade or better following his new releases. On a side note, he’s a pretty good artist too.
I live here in the hills because I don’t want to be anywhere else. There are 9 million people in London, 3 and a half million in Berlin, 8 million in New York, 21 million in Lagos. That’s a whole lot of people, a whole lot of neon, an army of cars, mountains of plastic, oceans of oil. That’s a whole heap of trouble right there. I’m not saying it’s better or cleaner or less trouble out here, but it’s definitely quieter. I’m outnumbered by animals and plants and that’s a good thing. I’m surrounded by furred and feathered and leafed neighbours. I live amongst them and mostly we get along. I try and be the least I can be. Bring the least disruption, the least intrusion, the smallest footprint, do the least prettifying; shut up and be still.
Well, the morning is getting away from me… So, y’all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for the nation and the world.
Nice tune! Love this: ” I’m not saying it’s better or cleaner or less trouble out here, but it’s definitely quieter. “
It used to be I could identify with the sentiment… Now it seems Houston is in the process of eating up the countryside and the quiet gets less and less as the years go by.