Politics isn't everything
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican Party presidential nominee, once said wisely that “there’s more to life than politics.”
Yes, he is right.
That pearl of wisdom is getting a serious test in Texas, where I have lived for nearly 35 of my 71 years on Earth. You see, we came to Texas to pursue a career in journalism. It was a great ride. I had a blast practicing my craft in two distant corners of this state: first in the Golden Triangle region east of Houston and then in the Texas Panhandle.
Along the way, the state’s political climate changed dramatically.
It’s now run by loons, fruitcakes and goofballs who call themselves Republicans. They are more akin to cultists who follow the lead of the most recent former POTUS, the guy who talks about The Big Lie, suggesting the 2020 election that he lost was stolen from him.
I am retired now, more or less. I write this blog and I also do some freelance reporting for a weekly newspaper, the Farmersville Times. The politics of the Texas Legislature, though, never is far away. It’s hardly ever off my radar screen.
Moreover, I find it necessary at times to remind myself of what Mitt Romney said as he ran for president against Barack Obama nearly a decade ago. There’s “more to life than politics.”
I need to hone my compartmentalization skills. I need to keep Romney’s admonition in mind. The world of politics keeps swirling around me. I just have to remind myself that my life in Collin County is now full of much-needed distraction from the things that used to occupy so much of my time and emotional energy.
Pray for me.