Richard Diebenkorn, c. Nineteen fifty-seven
Happy Easter!
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Things I Really Like: an Ongoing List - 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
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Willie: Evidence that God Loves Us
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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?
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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.
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Panhandle scenes at 75 mph. XIT
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Laura's Garden | Bush Library, SMU, Dallas
