Richard Diebenkorn, c. Nineteen fifty-seven
Happy Easter!
texas
- Birdsong
- Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
- Archie
- Tamales
- Black licorice
- Woodsmoke
- Good Table Talk (more often, actually, Bar Talk)
- a Ploughman's Lunch in a pub's garden
- a 5:1 Martini, with a dash of orange bitters and 3 olives
- Wind Chimes
- Telephone calls with my out-of-town kids
- Tacos with my in-town kid (and kid-in-law)
- Resident Taqueria
- Heat
- Daffodils
- Steel-cut oatmeal and a soft-boiled egg
Willie: Evidence that God Loves Us
Not the same state
This goes a long way to explain why it’s so much harder to live in Texas than it was 25 years ago: Why Is a Midland Billionaire Spending So Heavily to Support Ken Paxton?
fun fact
"Texas natives are more likely to stick around their home state than people born in any other place in the U.S., according to a new analysis of Census data. ... Approximately 82% of people born in Texas still lived there in 2021 ..." [Texas Tribune, 30 Aug 2023.](https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/29/texas-native-born-stay/)
No surprise there. Anecdotally, in 1976, seven of my high school classmates and I drove together to enroll at the same college in California. Seven out of eight of us returned to live in Texas after college or graduate school.
Panhandle scenes at 75 mph. XIT
Laura's Garden | Bush Library, SMU, Dallas
