Rural West Texas entertains more than its fair share of insults.
Cosmopolitan it is not.
However, wide open space abounds here, and that suits me just fine.
I’m contrary at times and fancy a place to escape my fellow humans.
The seemingly endless West Texas horizon offers just such a place. The panhandle causes one to forget the problems of overcrowding that plague this planet.
This is, after all, where the deer and antelope play. And just 5 miles from where this is taken, a handful of bison still roam their piece of the stockaded plains.
And most days, it is true, that the sky is not cloudy all day.
I'm a cognitive scientist and communication scholar who manages a psychophysiology lab at Texas Tech. I teach courses about the cognitive processing of media messages and research methods.
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