back to the real world

After a month away from Texas to deal with various family issues including my mother's death I am back to my real life in Texas.

All the Texas silliness prevails, along with the additional "fun"of heat and humidity. The zucchinni plants are huge but the squashes are rotting on the vine. I wonder why that isn't happening to the cucumbers?

The locals are still competeing for the Darwin awards- most recently the guy who while out surf fishing from his truck got tired and crawled underneath for a nap. The truck sung into the sand as the tide came in and he drowned.

The local young conservatives are picketing and protesting the most recent Star Wars episode because to thme it represents the insulting idea that the emporor trying to take over the universe is a parallel to the Bush. If the shoe fits.....

Marie was appalled to find that in a class of 40 philosophy students at the local JC only she and one other person were willing to admit that they believed in evolution. But then of course Darwin's "Origins of the species" was also listed as one of the 10 most dangerous books of the 19th. and 20th centuries by a conservative news source so what do you expect?

I expect that I will have to go off somewhere and found my own individual evil empire because I have read all of the books on that same list and actually find major portions of each relevant within the general context of the times in which they were written and even,gasp, applicable within certain limits today.

I'm sure part of it is continued sadness and general mental malaise but I find myself terribly impatient with almost everyone and everything. I feel an urge to go out and buy a cane and become like the character Dianna in the BBC series "Waiting for God." That way at least I could whack things. In lieu of a cane however in the meantime, I shall just rant.