(Bastrop TX) My job takes me to all kinds of places and this week is no exception. I visited Lake Jackson TX on Monday. Lake Jackson is a city that was built in the 1940’s as support for the Dow Chemical Plant that opened there. Dow Chemical is the largest chemical plant in the world. For you ladies with store bought boobs, there is a good chance that Dow made the silicone implants. Dow also manufactured Agent Orange which was used in the herbicidal warfare program in Viet Nam.
I spent the night in Victoria on Monday night. Victoria is the home of Doug Drabek, a major league pitcher and former Cy Young winner with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Victoria is also the home of Ron Gant. Gant was a major force of the Atlanta Braves machine in the early nineties. For you baseball fans, Gant hit 30 home runs and had 30 stolen bases for two seasons in a row in the early nineties. Two other players in the history of baseball have accomplished that feat. One is a guy by the name of Willie Mays. The other is Barry Bonds. We rode by the house Gant built for his mom.
Victoria is also the home of Stone Cold Steve Austin, master of the “sit down three quarter face lock jawbreaker.” Surely you know Stone Cold and his famous wrestling hold.
Today, I visited such towns as Port Lavaca, Gonzales, Yoakum, and Shiner and there will be at least that many more tomorrow.
I’ve also met some great folks and new friends. I have figured out that people are the same wherever you go. People love to laugh and love to enjoy this thing we call life.
I also am reminded that the heartache is the same wherever you go. I visited one funeral location today where a prominent lady had been killed in a tragic automobile accident…another where a little girl died of respiratory failure.
Funeral homes full of people who are shocked and grief stricken trying to figure how they will take their next breath.
It’s the same in Bastrop Texas as it is in Reynolds Georgia.
Life can be so much fun….and it can also be so very difficult.
It can be as trivial and mundane as a chemical plant, a couple of baseball players and a world wide wrestler
And it can be as important as your next breath.
I'm just going to keep living it one day at a time and squeeze all I can in the process.
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