Fleeing now cold Kansas and Oklahoma we arrived in Texas ready for sunshine and blue skies. We were rewarded with sixty degree weather and much warmer nights. No windstorms. No snow. No ice.
Thursday brought R&R with one near exception. Reading a NRA article aloud in an incredulous voice at a busy McDonald's earned me a swift kick under the table from Isaiah (the NRA president responded to the CT shooting by saying we need armed guards in all our schools, forgetting, apparently, there was an armed guard at Columbine who tried, unsuccessfully, to take down the shooters and that even trained police officers have a very low hit rate (in NYC in 2005 less than 18% of bullets fired hit their intended target according to the New York Times). He alerted me early enough into my rant that no one seemed to notice. It's unsure if anyone would have been offended, but why take a chance?
Friday proved the Mayans were wrong. Life continued. (But human sacrifices to get the sun to come up, the Mayans were on to something there. How come that part didn't end up on billboards?
There's something strangely egotistical about End Timers. That though the world is billions of years old it will end while their on it, as if it can't go on without them. Was there ever a time in history when there were no wars or disasters? Were people sitting around saying, "Whew, now we don't have to worry about that Jesus Guy showing up.")
Thursday brought R&R with one near exception. Reading a NRA article aloud in an incredulous voice at a busy McDonald's earned me a swift kick under the table from Isaiah (the NRA president responded to the CT shooting by saying we need armed guards in all our schools, forgetting, apparently, there was an armed guard at Columbine who tried, unsuccessfully, to take down the shooters and that even trained police officers have a very low hit rate (in NYC in 2005 less than 18% of bullets fired hit their intended target according to the New York Times). He alerted me early enough into my rant that no one seemed to notice. It's unsure if anyone would have been offended, but why take a chance?
Friday proved the Mayans were wrong. Life continued. (But human sacrifices to get the sun to come up, the Mayans were on to something there. How come that part didn't end up on billboards?
There's something strangely egotistical about End Timers. That though the world is billions of years old it will end while their on it, as if it can't go on without them. Was there ever a time in history when there were no wars or disasters? Were people sitting around saying, "Whew, now we don't have to worry about that Jesus Guy showing up.")
With a new chance at life we visited the Amarillo Museum of Modern Art.
On the college campus during winter break we had three floors to ourselves. We lingered over landscape and abstract paintings and a floor devoted solely to ancient Asian art. There were even pieces from the 2nd century!
(An aside; resentment is brewing. It seems lots of universities have cool, free museums. I don't remember anything comparable at Oregon State).
(An aside; resentment is brewing. It seems lots of universities have cool, free museums. I don't remember anything comparable at Oregon State).
Museum at Amarillo University
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