Opinion

Here’s the thing: I’m not superstitious. It all started when I was still in Mexico, visiting a gallery, and I saw a painting across the room. The composition was striking. The bottom third was black and the top two-thirds were filled with a deep blue sky and great white clouds rising from the horizon. There was a bare tree on the right side and on the left was a full moon. I felt pulled into the gallery and across the room to see the picture, and that’s when the figures in the foreground became clear.

September. Our month of change.

“Idon’t remember you at all!” the portly man informed my husband, Peter. Peter smiled, introduced himself, and reminded the gentleman where they might have met half a century ago.

Steve, the cowboy on the board of directors of the Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy counter and world dilemma think tank, swears on his coffee it happened. “Tourist guy got off the train the other day when I was down there picking up a friend,” Steve said.

Biologists with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are predicting a moderate season for deer hunters, with archery season kicking off on Oct. 1.

The evening was one of those that come back to you time after time, year after long year. It comes back and whispers of how good life can be when you’re well fed, enjoying life, and a good friend shares the front porch with you on a summer’s evening.

Here’s the thing: I’m not superstitious. It all started when I was still in Mexico, visiting a gallery, and I saw a painting across the room. The composition was striking. The bottom third was black and the top twothirds were filled with a deep blue sky and great white clouds rising from the horizon. There was a bare tree on the right side and on the left was a full moon. I felt pulled into the gallery and across the room to see the picture, and that’s when the figures in the foreground became clear.

Dr. Eric Hamill is a fellowship-trained ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgeon focused on eyelid, eyebrow, lacrimal, and orbital surgery. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with Highest Honors. He completed both medical school and residency at Baylor College of Medicine. He then moved to Los Angeles, California, for a two-year, ASOPRS accredited Oculofacial Plastic Surgery fellowship at the University of Southern California. Dr. Hamill is board certified by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Baylor College of Medicine where he teaches residents and fellows at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.

It wasn’t much of a joke, as far as jokes go. I saw the man wearing two hats, one on top of the other.