Here in Texas you notice sky first! There is space between thoughts and people. That’s its strength and shadow. A high contrast place. Bold and beautiful. Nice to observe it on the way in. Clearly a leader-a big picture place.
The land teaches you that you are part of a bigger story, a grand narrative. And if you want to be Adam or Eve in it, you need to show up! Behold, be humble yourself, and know.
The sky is enormous here. First character you notice. The sky breaks through into every conversation-it’s endless with possible outcomes. A unique context to consider life within.
The native Americans felt the sky as father. Makes sense here. A long reaching view space. Long term, long horn i.e. Big authority, Peace considering from Being space. A father creator spirituality. A view on the coming storms. You can see a storm coming from fifty miles here, and consider its velocity, its pace, its potential impact.
Where I grew up you have crescendoes and a domed sky, not endless horizons; here you have operatic thunderstorms, history rolling in, present distance-Big gestures of being. No way to ignore it. The sky is humbling here.
In England, and where I grew up, you are just where you’re at, the local tells of the grandeur-the tiny reveals the whole; here,you are in the vast sweep, the endless dome of being. The rolling thunder of history-Texas, still.
“When a father is quiet at the end of the night, a whole house sleeps!”