Imbolc Hare Moon
Now you may be asking yourself, what kind of place is El Dorado, Kansas? At the Red Coach Inn breakfast Fox News was on the television. I could have purchased a Glenn Beck book titled Control for $7.64 from the Inn’s magazine rack and the local paper had, on the front page, news that a new middle school sidewalk had been built.
In that paper a Senator in the Kansas legislature wondered if increasing opportunities for Kansans to protect themselves made more sense than increasing criminal penalties. After all, he said, “In rural Kansas an intruder is still likely to be met with a shotgun.”
This is the plains and red state plains at that. Its scenery is stark and often, to my eye, beautiful, but in the manner of an abstract painting, shape and color predominate.
In an hour and a half or so I’ll not, like Toto, be in Kansas anymore.