“Dumb Texans”

The earth is as big as a Texas sky. Our world completes us. The severity of the weather gives us character. The firey Augusts, the black ice in January, the torrents of rain that sound like the voices of Zeus and Poseidon angrily quarreling, threatening, throwing down bolts of lightning and battering the thin soil. We know all we need to know- and if you tell us more, it is more than is needed. We have all we need. The world completes us- it reflects our thoughts and we are satisfied by what it gives to us or withholds from us. If it withholds, we were found unworthy. If it gives, we were found deserving. Do not break the law, or be without money, for the governors of trouble will sap all that you have left. If I get on that shoot of pleasure that the land provides and supports, I will ascend to heights that reach the sky and I can put my hand up to caress it, then.