Dragon’s Teeth, Maui – courtesy of The TexPatch

What’s so funny ’bout peace love & understanding … Elvis Costello

I got a peaceful, easy feeling … The Eagles

The TexPatch has been on a bit of hiatus.  The back-to-school/work season and end-of-summer madness have caused their usual chaos at the homestead.  At the same time the world around us seems to have plunged into what feels like greater than usual chaos – ISIS, Iraq, Ferguson, Ebola … Ebola in my Texas hometown, no less!  In reality, the world is continuing on its typically chaotic course – it’s just that the crises are hitting closer to home.

I think of Dragon’s Teeth – waves crashing against molten rock.  Treacherous and turbulent.  But there is an ebb and flow.  A give and take.  Crests and troughs.  I will seek the troughs between the crests and crashes – the peaceful easy moments to write and process everything that is going on and hopefully come up with some semblance of peace, love & understanding.  A constructive way to understand and deal with what’s going on in the world.  This is, of course, a cosmic way of saying that the TexPat is getting back to work.