Today was peaceful and beautiful. It started out with the sun shining on my face, and it ended with the sun shining on my face.  

We have been trundling along Texas, and upon waking today in the first twenty minutes of staring out the window I saw deer, and donkeys (or maybe those were mules), and squirrels, and turkey vultures, and clumps of cactuses that grow everywhere like weed and that brought me to some kind of an extatic excitement as I've never seen them grow like that.