You'll be seeing the Flame Leaf Sumac next month on the highway between Mertzon and Eldorado.
Texas writer Lawrence Wright said this in a recent interview with Fresh Air:
"A state has really two obligations. One is to create opportunities. And in that I would say making it possible for businesses to work, making sure our justice system works, making sure our children are educated, you know, these are all ways of creating opportunity. But the other thing that a state, or a city, or any political entity is supposed to do is to create community. And that is where Texas is falling down. And, its not just Texas, it's happening all over the country. But, Texas sets an example that is very contagious, and I think Texas is responsible for a lot of that, and it accounts for the reason people hate Texas so much in way they don't hate Wisconsin or Michigan or places where you have also, you know, radical elements raging out of control. But Texas stands for all that disunity and so we have to shoulder the responsibility of the kind of culture we have been creating." Fresh Air at 31:00
And so, I refer you back to my About page where I mention that Irion County ISD and the City of Mertzon are unique microcosms for our country's experiment with democracy. Here's the question: are ICISD and the City of Mertzon satisfactorily creating opportunity and community?
Let me know what you think.