exciting.
invigorating.
it makes the ends of your scarf dance
as far out to the sides as they can reach.
it’s Christmas and spring
all rolled together,
eggnog and picnics
and hot cocoa and kites.
it can be a pain,
literally if you get sand in your eye;
annoying if your car gets caught by a gust.
it reminds me of being
with dear friends
way up in Lubbock, playing in the park and
laboring just to walk back to the car.
a force of nature so great you can lean backwards into
thin air and not fall.
i suppose it has something to do with growing up here,
but i love the Texas wind.
PennyDaisy 
Today is nice. If I didn’t have sad things going on today, I’d declare a kite-construction contest.
yes yes yes.
I love your imagery!! You have a gift!
Christmas and spring!!!!We are way to crazy.
I thought the Texas Wind was anytime Terrell Owens speaks…
That is a near perfect description of how this weather feels! I want to have a picnic after church, out under the tree by the playground sometime this winter. Maybe more than once.
You make me laugh with your Cowboy fervor…I had to share this…T.O. actually went to college in Chattanooga where I am! But get this…back then, many of my friends and I followed sports with such a zeal that we would even watch the player drafts each year when they happened. The year San Francisco drafted him, we all heard “Terrell Owens, Wide Reciever, Tennessee-Chattanooga” and to a man we all went “WHO?”. UTC isn’t usually very good, and even when they are, their support is dwarfed by that for Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, you know, bigger schools. We looked into it, and apparently, he had one good year in college which catapulted him up. He described his college career as “the worst four years of my life”…the city feels the same way about it.
Be careful using Romo’s name (or any other living quaterback’s, no matter how cute) in the same sentence with St.Peyton’s to a Tenneessee boy…Peyton has a street named after him in Knoxville…to my knowledge, this is something that even former presidents Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson, and statesmen Davy Crockett and John Sevier do not have…and rightfully so…but we do have Dollywood…
And yes, I do wonder if God is working some large underground miracle …..keep praying and maybe we’ll all see it…
Ive been going nuts! But im good. Just working alot and praying alot about what I am to do with some opertunitys I have. How are you?