THE ELECTIONS END
The elections are over. We lost the big one, but when you play the game as long as I did as a coach, that's a consequence. You like to think that defeats pave the way for future victories, but that mentality isn't working currently. I see the glass as half empty at the moment.
The Viagra and Xanax aren't working their usual magic. I'm fighting the usual depression that inspires my writing. It's time for a change of scenery that I hope will effect a dramatic swing in my mood. I know that if I continue along my present path, I will vanish into the brush or el monte as we like to say in South Texas.
There was the mysterious disappearance in the mid 1800s of the Oblate priest Father Peter Keralum who was the architect of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in downtown Brownsville
The Oblates were missionaries. The priest would ride for weeks at a time ministering to the rancherias along the Rio Grande and inland. He would range as far west as Laredo. He performed all his Catholic duties for these impoverished and isolated people eking out a primitive survival.
One day his horse returned to Brownsville without its rider. A search party could not find him. Ten years later his bones were discovered. Nobody could conclude the reason for his death. Speculation ranged from a snake bite to a heart attack. Some rumormongers even speculated that he may have fallen victim to marauding Comanches.
The summer is over. Our autumns and winters give us a warm, fuzzy feeling. We're almost in the middle of November and the last several days I have sat next to the pool and meditated. I don't know if I'm helping myself much in my state of political withdrawal, but relaxing certainly can't hurt you.
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