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: Roses | P.S. Krøyer, 1893 Yes, please. Some of that.

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: Early Walk, Grasses, June 23 2024 /

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: Early Walk, Striated Clouds, June 23 2024 /

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: I hear you, but don't see you

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: Old Friends Maybe not like bookends (per Paul Simon). Still, 54 years of friendship in this photo.

: Third Places Micro.blog seems to be amazingly promising in creating an online “third place,” where a …

: Mom

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: Triangle Bed, May Day Coreopsis doing their thing; purple salvia spikes in the background.

: The Road Nicolas de Staël, 1954

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: RER Eight years since my dad died. It’s so great when he’s in one of my dreams.

: Green

: Oak Leaf Hydrangea . More sweet life.

: The Sweet Life 🐶

: First Fruits 🌱

: Friday morning What a delightful breakfast spot!

: RIP, Dickey Betts

: Verne Lundquist I'm not a golfer, nor am I particularly a golf fan, but I grew up with Verne on the …

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: Willie's the One To no one's surprise, Willie Nelson wins Texas Monthly's "Celebrity Texans" …

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: Rose-Fingered Dawn 📷

: Who? Hoot.

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: Is so a word

: The Honest Broker / I’m sure many of you already follow Ted Gioia. But for those who …

: A Good Yarn I’m really enjoying this audiobook of The Odyssey read by the actor, Anton Lesser. …

: John B. Stetson Hat 📷

: Right Now | Kenneth Fields It’s nineteen years today since he last held A drink in his hand or …

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: Springing 📷

: BKLYN

: "we fly at dawn" 📷

: The Snowy Day 📷

: the moon and stars ... just talkin'

: My Morning Guide for Many Years RIP, Bob Edwards, host of NPR’s Morning Edition for almost 25 …

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: Fascinating to learn during the Super Bowl halftime ads that the NFL is working to bring traumatic …

: Willie: Evidence that God Loves Us

: After an illness, walking the dog | Jane Kenyon Wet things smell stronger, and I suppose his main …

: Sunrise Valentines 📷

: Orange You Grateful for Orange(s)?

: Elm Street, Dallas 1942 📷

: Ancient DNA maps migration in the Roman Empire Interesting.

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: Here goes 🌱 One of the benefits of gardening in the South. January 27: tomatoes are sprouting and …

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: Fellowship - Christian Wiman Tragedy and Christianity are incommensurable, he declared, which we’d …

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: London's East End in the Last Century From the wonderful Spitalfields Life: "In the seventies, while …

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: Third Places American suburbs provide an excess of privacy, but deny proximity to those places upon …

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: My Lord Has Come O morning stars together Proclaim the holy birth And praises sing to God the King …

: Christmas Movietime: The Shop Around the Corner Mr. Matuschek and Rudy are headed to Christmas Eve …

: handsome archie 🐶

: 12.21 Happy Solstice!

: Chores - Maxine Kumin All day he’s shoveled green pine sawdust out of the trailer truck into the …

: Come on you Spurs The thing about an ugly win is that it's ... worth 3 points.⚽

: Jingle All the Way - Béla Fleck and the Flecktones 🎶

: Christmas Mail - Ted Kooser Cards in each mailbox, angel, manger, star and lamb, as the rural …

: We Three Kings - The Roches 1990 🎶

: A thought Generally, the world says, "Work first, and benefits come after." (E.g., exercise, then …

: analog days A 2011 photo of the Library of Congress' card catalog (now digitized). Source: Dr. Amy …

: I love John Prine The moon and stars / hang out in bars / just talkin' -- "Summer's End"

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: ewr (1923-2022) Today, this little girl would have been 100 years old.

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: You are what you eat David French: We’re misinformed not because the government is systematically …

: My town in the Golden Hour Downtown Dallas, Texas USA

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: Coaxing the last tomatoes from the vine 📷 🌱 They taste better than they look. No surprise there, …

: Ears down / Ears up 🐶

: Welcome, Morning - Anne Sexton There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon …

: A difficult question Jonah Goldberg: "If Hitler’s bunker was in a hospital in 1945, you can be sure …

: If I were to open a pub, perhaps it would be "The Lamb & Puppy." 🐶

: All In or All Out There is little excuse for pretending eloquence about the meaning of the …

: Writers Who've Stuck with Me (or With Whom I've Stuck) an ongoing list P.G. Wodehouse • G.K. …

: Public Art "Tree Sleeves" on Kneeling Bois d'arc, Tietze Park, Dallas, Texas, USA

: Sorolla Really lovely paintings. “Spanish Light: Sorolla in American Collections” …

: TV Rec Megan and I are loving "This Farming Life," on Britbox. City folk have no idea what it's like …

: Happy, happy Spurs days! (A feeling Spurs fans are not overly familiar with.) UPDATE: 3 straight …

: Ghosts - Jen Rose Yokel Quick now, come now to where the veil grows thin, where the border between …

: 23 Oct 2023, 07:29

: Conundrum Undecided.

: Rare The terse explanation she'd given for her depression was a "bad breakup." Sam felt it had to be …

: Two by David Brooks Over the Trump years, we’ve learned how easy it is to anesthetize one’s moral …

: Supermoon setting. 30 Sept 2023

: A New Thing Given that I’d never, ever, heard the words (or name) “Ange …

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: Leaves “Artistic Leaf-Raking” by land artist Nikola Faller, via Kottke

: Archie & Red Mike This day begins with a 2-dog walk. 07:15, 09.23.2023, Dallas, TX, USA 📷

: South Fork The road goes on forever and the party never ends. – Robert Earl Keen, Jr.

: Nantucket

: Mac's Shack, Wellfleet, MA

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: Ryder's Cove at sunset.

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: Blue

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: fun fact "Texas natives are more likely to stick around their home state than people born in any …

: maybe Is this how judgment day will be? "... something that would have been terror, but for the joy, …

: so far, so fun Two Three games isn't much to go on. But, at least for those games, Spurs look like a …

: Lower Greenville, Saturday morning

: So Good Of all the websites in all the internets, the Dust to Digital Instagram account may bring me …

: Lora Webb Nichols, Photographer "Wilbur Scafe's Pack Trip: Ruth, 1932" by Lora Webb Nichols. From an …

: Shadows and Knives 📷

: Carne "The way to battle abstraction in our time is to embrace the material, the incarnation of our …

: Manly "As I get older, I find that I care more and more about being a good man and less and less …

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: Archie’s binky. 🐶📷

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: Concrete ... the presentation of our bodies is our spiritual act of worship. It is a significant …

: Felix culpa God can make good use of all that happens. But the loss is real. [C.S. Lewis …

: Football can be fun. Who knew? Spurs v. Hammers: Lots of fun in the West Ham box (plus, great game …

: Rufus, John, and Peggy Enjoying Rufus Wainwright's Folkocracy -- especially, Peggy Seeger's "Heading …

: New gifts every morning

: Of blessed memory Jon Flaming (Am. 1962-), Peggy Sue BBQ, Dallas

: Teachout on Stoppard Two-and-half years after his death, I miss reading new essays (and reviews and …

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: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner David French on where to look for threats …

: Two(+/-) for Three SCOTUS last week: (1) Affirmative action - yep. (2) Student loans - yep. (3) …

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: Panhandle scenes at 75 mph. XIT

: Henry Moore in the forest

: The Watcher

: ECR 2023

: archie's world

: forty-three years

: Pals or, maybe, Frenemies

: One of my favorite pieces at the Met

: 06:04 mdt

: Happy Birthday to this (T)ACLLEH!

: Out the window

: LES

: june seventh Happy Birthday to this one: Firstborn. Happy Anniversary to these two: Miss them.

: Laura's Garden | Bush Library, SMU, Dallas

: Mom's vase

: big and bright

: Winter After the Stillbirth | Renee Emerson My husband dreads the winter. Born himself on the …

: High windows

: More High Windows Elsworth Kelly, Austin

: Oregano blossoms

: like capistrano The Beach Balls have completed their winter migration!

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: Never Did. Nope. As Isaak Walton said (almost): "Surely, God could have made a better cocktail. …

: Here we are! I must admit, sometimes I find the daily lectionary to be a chore. Not today. This, …

: Daily Tostada. “Dad, now that you’re officially old, do you have any bits of wisdom to …

: Memorable Movies 🍿 Not always good, but at least memorable. (#s are just for counting, not ranking) …

: Gun Sick Another mass shooting. This one close to home. A fetishistic fascination with guns, power, …

: in the alley from the coffee shop

: St. Fiacre of the Sorrel

: Noble beast

: California Hills in August | Dana Gioia I can imagine someone who found these fields unbearable, …

: Dust | Dorianne Laux Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I …

: stem the flood, americans Russian propagandists do not need to wait to check facts or verify claims; …

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: Chairman Archie presiding 🐶 “The meeting will come to order.”

: Always Marry an April Girl | Ogden Nash | 🎂 Praise the spells and bless the charms, I found April in …

: Good Friday, 2023 Cabora Drive Trail, Playa Vista, Los Angeles, CA🥾

: PTR

: Watch out for that dino-dragon, Archie!

: Dad and Mom

: take the wheel Jill Filipovic via ayjay Just about everything researchers understand about …

: Fifth Sunday in Lent

: A mediating device for difference Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez: ... Some students might …

: The Lake Isle | Ezra Pound O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I …

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: Cait & Nay 23 Sept 2023.

: Dawn pickets

: Blue. Ewok.

: Sun Dog

: Breuer