News of the World

It is after 12 noon and here I sit on my kinda comfortable almost soft, not sure what this material is, brown sofa.  I just put in my favorite Emmylou Harris CD-Red Dirt Girl.  I love every song but Red Dirt Girl kinda hits...you know what I mean?  Emmylou wrote most of the songs on this CD including Red Dirt Girl.  Flour Bluff had the very best high school English teachers on earth when I went there in the 70's.  Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Briedwell, Mrs. Polk could have devoted several days, weeks or months even, to class discussion on all the different literary aspects - time in history, phases of life, family dynamics, mental illness, small town culture and all that goes with it to this one song-pure poetry.  One of the lines 'there won't be a mention in the news of the world of the life and the death of a red dirt girl' is so true.  I was sad to hear one of the most interesting men and quite a character,  I have ever met passed away last week  in my red dirt town.  My small Texas town does not have its own newspaper.   News of our town is included in a supplement from a newspaper, that comes out once a week,  in the town 15 miles on down U.S. Route 90.    Obituaries are posted on the doors of local businesses, Scotch taped to the drive up pharmacy window at the Lowes Super S and the Post Office bulletin board.  That is the news of our world today-from last week.  By the time I heard 'Super Sonic' had passed away his funeral was over and just the usual 'so sad' comments and stories of his antics passed around in the local coffee shops.  'Super Sonic' was of course a nickname and how he introduced himself to me about 3 or 4 years ago.  Nicknames are common in Texas but I will save that for another day. I'm off to see another character, larger than life, preform in the big city of San Antonio.  He might just be mentioned in the news of the world some day.  But no matter, he matters to us and this is our world, my world and we matter!  kisses